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Afelton, I couldn't agree with you more.

If "they" sant to be referred to by their color or ancestoral origin, why don't you just call them racists?

THanx swansong2. a new one will be up Sunday. Thanks for your support. ;-)

Just a note...the originator of this topic says that the n word means ignorant...
That is wrong. It actually has a much different orgin/meaning. If you are interested, you can look it up.
It's one thing for me to tell you but you will see it to be more truthful if you look it up yourself, like I did!

NO...actually look up the REAL orgin...where it came from...it's REAL meaning has NOTHING AT ALL to do with ignorance...I used to think it did...till i did actual research on my own...not just typing the word into dictionary.com! The encyclopedia is far more accurate and explains more... here's a link that I found helpful...It contains the ETYMOLOGY and HISTORY of the N word!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIT#Etymology_and_history


There's an even better site but I can't remember where.

The actual encyclodeia is very indepth in explanations… I saw the little paragraph that dictionary.com has…but it was not indepth like the encyclopedia…
I’ll just share the info that I have:
Earlier variants (such as neger or negar) derive from the Spanish/Portuguese word negro, meaning “black” Both negro and noir (and therefore also nègre and EDIT) ultimately come from nigrum, the accusative form of the Latin word niger (pronounced ['niger], like "knee-ger" with the final r being trilled), simply meaning "black".
In Coloinal America, negars was used in 1619 describing slaves shipped. Basically letting them know that they were sending ppl of color…because those words mean black!
In the United States, the word EDIT was not always considered derogatory, but was instead used by many as merely denotative of black skin, as it was in other parts of the English-speaking world. In nineteenth-century literature, there are many uses of the word EDIT with no intended negative connotation. The word was only used to describe what the person looked like.
In English, neger became "negar" and finally "EDIT." The perception of the term EDIT as derogatory is no doubt related to the fact that the “negroid” race itself has been widely regarded as inferior by people that decided to think that they are better. And so, everyone followed. There is an observable pattern of words denoting the Black race coming to be regarded as derogatory: EDIT, darky, negro, and colored, all at various times acceptable, are all considered offensive now. "Black" was the preferred term from the late

The bad part about the negative use of the word…is that the only difference in a light person and a dark person is the amount of Melanin you have and your genes. I’m not at all an expert but, people in very hot places…from what I understand… have a higher amount of melanin to protect their skin from the sun because of the high exposure of where they live, which is what causes them to be dark. Through time, that all effected the genes of generations to come. So who has the place to say, you have more melanin than I do because you need to be protected from the sun and I don’t so that makes me better than you. What kind of thinking is that…because in the end…that’s what the FACTS come down to. To think that you are better than a person that has all of the same things that make them up as a human as you do, but have more melanin and different genes! I just don’t get it…maybe it’s because I am a more loving and humble person than ppl like that. But that’s imperfect human thinking for you…too many ppl are out to make themselves #1 with no humility and the desire to be in control…it’s made the whole world mad! And it’s the cause of racism to this day! In my eyes the N word does mean black, which is it’s orgin…but it comes with a lot of painful baggage…which is why I think it is disrespectful to use it!