He never mentioned race.
He would have said it about white people too.
Arabic and Mestizo aren't races.
What about what some other person did?
It wasn't racism, it was xenophobia.
They hate America,
dEmS aRe ThE rEaL rAcIsTs.
He wasn't talking about the Squad.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
ThatOwlWoman (07-22-2019)
ThatOwlWoman (07-22-2019)
No need. Examine the languages around the Mediterranean yourself, and examine Latin.
All the variants of the word stem from nigrum, which is the stem latin used for niger, meaning 'black'.
Guess you never studied Latin or the stem the 'niger' comes from, or the variants that can still be found around the Mediterranean today. It is not a racist word in and of itself any more than 'human' is.
Phantasmal (07-22-2019)
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Bill (07-22-2019), ThatOwlWoman (07-22-2019)
Life is Golden (07-22-2019)
It doesn't. It's just more nonsense from racists who want to pretend that they're not. Anyone who has read any books written in the 1800s or through mid-20th century about the South has seen the word used. Sometimes they say "nigra(s)", the more educated used "Negro(s)", sometimes "darkies," but most often "nigger(s)." It began as shorthand for African slaves, then post-Civil War it became a pejorative. It's part of a lexicon of ugly words to describe those who were other -- spics, greasers, wops, coons, wetbacks, chinks, kikes, dagos, pollacks, krauts, slants, micks, redskins, injuns, gooks, spooks, squaws, honky, crackers, ragheads, towel heads, nips, etc. Racists and xenophobics use the term to make sure that we understand that those ppl are not like us... and inferior to boot.
From Wikipedia: "Nigger / nigra / nigga / niggah / nigguh
(U.S., UK) An offensive term for a black person. From the word negro, which means the color black in numerous languages. Diminutive appellations include Nigg and Nigz. Over time, the terms nigga and niggaz (plural) have come to be frequently used between some African-Americans without the negative associations of nigger."
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