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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
In case you haven't figured it out, I am black and a Southerner. My family has long life spans so I was lucky enough to know my great great grandmother (my father’s mother’s mother’s mother). She was ALIVE during the 1800’s and HER mother and grandmother were slaves. Yeah, I’m pretty sure that “nigger” was a racial slur even back then. But since slaves were not considered to have feelings, maybe the people subjugating them felt that it wasn’t a slur…
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That's interesting, but your personal experience does not entitle you to your own facts.
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I really don’t care what the "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang" says about the word “nigger” since we all know that black slaves were not allowed to read or write. Nor did anyone care about their opinions.
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ditto