I also like how they tell me I'm a mongrel.  

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Negro
The word white people use when they're too afraid to say the word 'niger' or 'nigga'. Mainly old white people.  

Anyone wonders why when it comes to black ppl its suddenly ok to use a Spanish word (specially when  anglos are always up in arms about any latino using spanish)?

You'd think if we really wanted to be accurate we could use the swahili for example

Eusi = black in swahili
Baki or baku = black in hausa

Anybody ever bothered to find that out?

Or how about

Ubuntu = "I am what I am because of who we all are" in bantu.

Post edited at 1:07 pm on Jan. 12, 2009 by jakelong

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Negro
 The word white people use when they're too afraid to say the word 'niger' or 'nigga'. Mainly old white people.

Anyone wonders why when it comes to black ppl its suddenly ok to use a Spanish word (specially when anglos are always up in arms about any latino using spanish)?

You'd think if we really wanted to be accurate we could use the swahili for example

Eusi = black in swahili
Baki or baku = black in hausa

Anybody ever bothered to find that out?

Or how about

Ubuntu = "I am what I am because of who we all are" in bantu.

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Spanish is more prominant here in the U.S.A. than Swahilli. That's probably why using a Spanish word would be more acceptable. My family uses both English and Spanish. I would have never know what the Swahilli word for black was had you not posted it and I'm sure that if I make a general conversation about black people and use the word Eusi whomever I would be talking to would look at me blankly or ask what the hell I had just said. And no one bitches about Hispanics using Spanish with people who speak Spanish we complain about them not attempting to learn English while in an English speaking country. I've learned to be more respectful of that watching my fiance's family struggle to learn English and for the simple fact that I've learned Spanish. But I can see the other side of the dillema after working for Meijers a while back. Hispanics would come in and steal all of the time and most of them spoke enough English to get their papers and whatever else they needed but when it came to being in trouble or giving out their name/address for the police they suddenly could speak English, read, or write.

And everything has an origin. Niger is Latin for black, Spanish added and O and eventually an e (in place of the i), English added an extra g but it just means black. Alot of English literature uses the term. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain for example. It's stupid to debate whether or not it is offensive. If you're offended by it you're ignorant. If you have black skin you are a Nigger, niger, negro etc. You are a black person in other words. I'm blanco, blanc, lavan, a white person. It's nothing more than a word for a colour.

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Quote: from jakelong at 4:07 pm on Jan. 12, 2009

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Also some fun stuff from the urbandictionary  

 Negro  
  The word white people use when they're too afraid to say the word 'niger' or 'nigga'. Mainly old white people.    

 Anyone wonders why when it comes to black ppl its suddenly ok to use a Spanish word (specially when  anglos are always up in arms about any latino using spanish)?  

 You'd think if we really wanted to be accurate we could use the swahili for example  

 Eusi = black in swahili  
 Baki or baku = black in hausa  

 Anybody ever bothered to find that out?  

 Or how about  

 Ubuntu = "I am what I am because of who we all are" in bantu.  

 

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Spanish is more prominant here in the U.S.A. than Swahilli. That's probably why using a Spanish word would be more acceptable. My family uses both English and Spanish. I would have never know what the Swahilli word for black was had you not posted it and I'm sure that if I make a general conversation about black people and use the word Eusi whomever I would be talking to would look at me blankly or ask what the hell I had just said. And no one bitches about Hispanics using Spanish with people who speak Spanish we complain about them not attempting to learn English while in an English speaking country. I've learned to be more respectful of that watching my fiance's family struggle to learn English and for the simple fact that I've learned Spanish. But I can see the other side of the dillema after working for Meijers a while back. Hispanics would come in and steal all of the time and most of them spoke enough English to get their papers and whatever else they needed but when it came to being in trouble or giving out their name/address for the police they suddenly could speak English, read, or write.  

And everything has an origin. Niger is Latin for black, Spanish added and O and eventually an e (in place of the i), English added an extra g but it just means black. Alot of English literature uses the term. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain for example. It's stupid to debate whether or not it is offensive. If you're offended by it you're ignorant. If you have black skin you are a Nigger, niger, negro etc. You are a black person in other words. I'm blanco, blanc, lavan, a white person. It's nothing more than a word for a colour.

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Everytime I hear 'negro' used to refer to a black person (which is rare), it is usually part of the United Negro College Fund, or an older white person.  Typically, older white people are against the use of Spanish (although it is also Portuguese) in daily life, which is strange why they find it acceptable to use Spanish when defining a person.  I don't think they mean anything racist of it, they are just using the words they probably used when the grow up.  

In Spanish, obviously it means black, although saying 'negrito/a" means a darker or tanned person, no necessarily just a black person.  It is used fondly.

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Spanish is more prominant here in the U.S.A. than Swahilli.

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My family uses both English and Spanish. I would have never know what the Swahilli word for black was had you not posted it

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BTW before you make a total fool of yourself (I know I am bit late to stop you from that though)
I am latino.

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And no one bitches about Hispanics using Spanish with people who speak Spanish
we complain about them not attempting to learn English while in an English speaking country.

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 And everything has an origin. Niger is Latin for black, Spanish added and O and eventually an e (in place of the i), English added an extra g but it just means black.

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Alot of English literature uses the term. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain for example.

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Do you call Irish ppl dugans or micks or pikeys?
Do you call chinese ppl celestials?

Come on. Why is it suddenly fine to use 19th century words or foreign words for blacks and not for others?

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Quote: from Chava at 1:21 pm on Jan. 12, 2009

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Spanish is more prominant here in the U.S.A. than Swahilli.

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Yeah but most the same anglos who bitch about latinos speaking spanish are the ones who use the word "negro".

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My family uses both English and Spanish. I would have never know what the Swahilli word for black was had you not posted it

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But it would be more accurate.  

BTW before you make a total fool of yourself (I know I am bit late to stop you from that though)
I am latino.

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And no one bitches about Hispanics using Spanish with people who speak Spanish
we complain about them not attempting to learn English while in an English speaking country.

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Well why don't you attempt to learn Navajo in a Native American country?

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And everything has an origin. Niger is Latin for black, Spanish added and O and eventually an e (in place of the i), English added an extra g but it just means black.

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Right. And WHY not use the original words in african laguages? Too mouch trouble for the master race?

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Alot of English literature uses the term. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain for example.

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Are you from the 19th century?

Do you call Irish ppl dugans or micks or pikeys?
Do you call chinese ppl celestials?

Come on. Why is it suddenly fine to use 19th century words or foreign words for blacks and not for others?

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We speak languages based on Latin. That's why I don't rummage through African languages trying to be politically correct. And the 19th century literature are ENGLISH classics.They're relevant because we study them in high school still. Seeing as we're not really debating Spanish it was simply used to explain why we use Negro and not some Swahilli word. We don't speak Navajo because the last time I checked it was about 200 years ago that this country was a Native American country. As is the case with all of the Americas (Northern, Central, and Southern). You're grasping at straws to prove a point.

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Unless it's used as pendeja negrita or pendejo negrito. My mother-in-law uses that all the time when she gets cut off driving. hehe

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Post edited at 5:32 pm on Jan. 12, 2009 by NunUthaDan

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We speak languages based on Latin.

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That's why I don't rummage through African languages trying to be politically correct.

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Is refusing to call ppl names they don't want to be called "politically correct" or just simply being "correct"?  

How is using a bantu word instead of a spanish word "politcally correct"? All I am saying is its weird that we choose to use a Spanish word when blacks generally do not come from Spain.  

I am not trying to say that we should start using bantu or Hansa. But it would make MORE sense than using spanish out of the blue espcially we keep being beaten on the head for using spanish instead of english.

I mean do you like me calling you whitey or paleface or cracker and if you protest I start saying its just PC bullshit?  

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And the 19th century literature are ENGLISH classics.

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They're relevant because we study them in high school still.

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Negro is not offensive. But nigger is. And negro is way outdated. Period.

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You're grasping at straws to prove a point.

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Post edited at 7:48 pm on Jan. 12, 2009 by jakelong

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no i don't think so. it's more politically correct than african america. it's like saying "black" imo.

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how is it more politically correct than african american?

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Quote: from h a t t at 11:23 pm on Jan. 11, 2009

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no i don't think so. it's more politically correct than african america. it's like saying "black" imo.

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how is it more politically correct than african american?

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what makes every black person african or american

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