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The word traces from Latin niger “black,” entering English via Spanish negro and French nègre in the 16th–17th centuries as a neutral descriptor; by the late 18th and especially the early 19th century...
Estimates from comprehensive databases show police kill roughly 1,000 people a year in recent years, and unarmed victims are a smaller but persistent subset — for example, The New York Times and Mappi...
The short answer: in practice some Black people and segments of culture treat "" as a reclaimed, intra-group term distinct in meaning and function from the slur "nigger," but many individuals and inst...
Donald Trump did not "swap" the date of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday, but his administration removed MLK Day (and Juneteenth) from the National Park Service’s list of fee‑free admis...
The words "nigger" and "nigga" originate from the same racial slur; many authoritative dictionaries and scholars treat "nigga" as a pronunciation variant of "nigger," but there is sustained disagreeme...
The Confederate battle flag traces to Civil War military use but was never the Confederacy’s sole national banner; historians say it became a potent symbol because the Confederacy fought to preserve s...
The short answer is: yes—most authoritative sources and community leaders say it is inappropriate for white people to say "nigga," because the word carries racialized history and meaning that makes no...
The single-sentence answer is: in almost all credible social, historical, and psychological senses, a White person saying the word "nigger" in anger will be experienced and understood as racist; the t...
Arrest data show more white people are arrested in absolute numbers, but Black people are disproportionately represented in many serious crimes and in victimization rates. For example, FBI tables repo...
The English slur now called the “N‑word” originated from Latin niger → Spanish/Portuguese negro and appears in English texts from the 16th–17th centuries as a neutral descriptor; lexicographers date t...
Yes — President Donald Trump told The New York Times that civil-rights-era protections and policies have left white people “very badly treated,” explicitly framing the 1960s reforms as producing “reve...
There is no settled rule that a fractional percentage of Black ancestry (for example “37 percent Black”) gives someone the social license to use the N‑word; mainstream civil‑rights organizations and d...
ICE operations have, in multiple documented instances during recent crackdowns, resulted in U.S. citizens and people identified as white being stopped, restrained, and held by immigration agents, some...
The word "nigger" is defined across standard dictionaries as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people; major lexicons call it "probably the most offensive word in English" and note ...
Black opinion is not monolithic, but across recent reporting and scholarship a clear majority view emerges: non-Black people saying the N-word invites harm, backlash, and is widely seen as unacceptabl...
Legally, a white person is not criminally forbidden from uttering the N-word; speech is generally protected and anti‑discrimination statutes do not create race‑specific permissions or prohibitions . P...
Multiple 2025 incidents framed as “lynchings” or likened to historical lynching drew national and international attention: reported killings abroad such as the killing of a Palestinian American near R...
The N-word carries deep historical roots in slavery, segregation and dehumanizing press usage, which scholars and institutions say have made it “one of the most controversial in English” and a term th...
The word “nigger” is a longstanding racial slur directed at Black people; major dictionaries and reference works label it “extremely offensive” or “used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a Bla...
Major reference works and civil-rights groups define “nigger” as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people; dictionaries call it “extremely offensive” or “usually offensive” and the ...