DonnaRama wrote:
PeachessandCreeams wrote:
So some Black people feel that they have "ownership" over the word thus they "feel" as if they are in "control" and have "power" over others as well as the word which is originally defined as meaning ignorant. Second, the word is also derived from the Scandinavian term Niggard which translates as A stingy person; Cheapskate. Well, if some Black people deem it okay to call each other ignorant as well as stingy then by all means let them. In the end, they look like hypocritical fools... hence IGNORANT.Actually niggardly has nothing to do with the epithet - they were derived from two different word sources. The racial epithet was derived from NEGER which means dark; then NEGRE, also meaning dark or black, then bastardized to the slur we recognize today.
Please do not link the epithet with the word "niggardly" as there was already an outcry regarding the word wherein people unfamiliar with it wanted to BAN it because it SOUNDED like the racial slur.
With all due respect you are completely incorrect, Donna. Take it up with various scholars when it comes to that word. The original context of the word means ignorant; furthermore, it is also loosely derived from the Scandinavian term meaning stingy. The word began to apply and mean dark some time later and thus became a reference for Black people. Put the three words together and there is the early definitions of the term.















