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History of racial slurs

The term 'nigger' originated from words for the color black and degenerated into an overt slur by the 19th century, used to label, limit, and ridicule Black people

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Jan 20, 2026

should blacks havr rights

Yes — unequivocally: Black people should have rights. The arc of U.S. history — from slavery through Jim Crow to the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s — records a sustained struggle to sec...

Jan 8, 2026

etymology of nigga

The slang form nigga derives historically from the racial slur nigger, itself tracing back through English borrowings of Spanish/Portuguese negro from Latin niger “black,” and has been attested in dia...