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Nigga / Nigger Meaning

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Words can differ in meaning depending upon the community. Some may take specific words as an insult while other realize that it is something that might be positive and useful to them. The word “nigger” means the color black which is why during slavery, slave owners called the black slaves nigger. They used it to insult a person of color and to shame them. But in today’s society, almost everyone from every single race call each other “nigger because it is mostly used in a friendly way. The African American community use “nigga/ nigger” as a way to show pride in their race. Before the 21st century, other races used it as a way to describe a person of color in order to offend them. Therefore, when they call a black person or call each other a “nigga/ nigger”, African Americans get angry.
When a black person call another black person “nigga/nigger” is almost the same as when two people call each other a friend. When some African Americans use that word, they use it as a name to address another person that is African American in a positive manner or even sometimes to cause negative attention. They can say things like “my nigga”, usually addressed to another African American as a greeting or to say that you helped me out a lot. Although I may not use this word to describe a another person of African descendant, many others use this word to take pride of who they are as a person whose ancestors originally came from africa because negro does mean black by the original definition.

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