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But that opinion comes from me: Mr. Whitey McWhiteyson so what the hell do I know. Join Date Jun Posts 10, There'll be no man-splaining!! Jokes aside Yes, the time period has to be taken into consideration for dialogue - at least in the interest of exchanging ideas and challenge. Where possible!

Join Date Jul Posts 4, Terms over time Today, it's morphed into the same as 'stuck-up' and can be applied to anyone. I catch myself using it referring to rich snobby folk and the way they treat whoever they consider lesser than they, but I realize it may still bother many others. I sense they are more interested in economic development as well as social justice.

Perhaps other villagers reading your post may have more constructive response. In the meantime We're not trying to be Huffinton Post I really appreciate having a place to come that provides real time information on issues important to me.

I only hope that Bro. Jealous leadership will impact all branches of the organization. I have only lived in Michigan for a few years but I can say that the Detroit branch is unresponsive, invisible and irrelevant, which sadly is typical of the leadership here which is all about getting paid while the city deteriorates in front of our eyes.

I hope Bro. Jealous can raise the troops and get us organized for positive change! WriteForHire - I lived in Detroit from I wonder if he is still in charge? Often it seems that the Detroit branch is only focused on their annual Freedom Fund Dinner This sounds very positive.

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Follow NBC News. Several late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary usages suggest neutral usage. The popular Victorian era entertainment, the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado , twice uses the word nigger. In the song As some day it may happen , the executioner, Ko-ko, sings of executing the "nigger serenader and the others of his race", referring to white singers with their faces blacked singing minstrel songs.

The word "nigger" appears in children's literature. The story originally included a scene wherein the leopard now spotted asks the Ethiopian man why he does not want spots. In contemporary editions of "How the Leopard Got His Spots", the Ethiopian's original reply "Oh, plain black's best for a nigger" has been edited to, "Oh, plain black's best for me. The word "nigger" is used innocently and without malice by the child characters in some of the Swallows and Amazons series, written in the s by Arthur Ransome, e.

Editions published by Puffin after Ransome's death changed the word to 'negroes'. The first Jeeves novel, Thank You, Jeeves , features a minstrel show as a significant plot point. Bertie Wooster, who is trying to learn to play the banjo, is in admiration of their artistry and music. Tellingly, P. Wodehouse has the repeated phrase "nigger minstrels" only on the lips of Wooster and his peers; the manservant Jeeves uses the more genteel "Negroes".

In short story "The Basement Room" , by Graham Greene, the sympathetic servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, "You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to".

Replying to the boy's question: "Did you ever shoot a nigger? Of course I carried a gun. But you didn't need to treat them bad, that just made them stupid. Why, I loved some of those dammed niggers. Virginia Woolf, in her posthumously-published novel Between the Acts , wrote "Down amongst the bushes she worked like a nigger. Woolf's usage of racist slurs has been examined in various academic writings. The Reverend W.

Awdry's The Railway Series story Henry's Sneeze , originally described soot-covered boys with the phrase "as black as niggers". In , after complaints, the description was edited to "as black as soot", in the subsequent editions. Awdry is known for Thomas the Tank Engine The folk song "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster had originally been written in four verses.

The second verse describes an industrial accident which "kill'd five hundred Nigger" by electrocution. Modern recordings substitute other lines. For its presumed association with African-American music, the quartet was referred to until the s with nicknames such as "Negro Quartet" and "Nigger Quartet" before being called the "American Quartet". In the s, record producer J. The punk band the Dead Kennedys used the word in their song "Holiday in Cambodia" in the line, Bragging that you know how the niggers feel cold and the slum's got so much soul.

The context is a section mocking champagne socialists. Rap groups such as N. A Niggaz with Attitudes re-popularized the usage in their songs. Responding to accusations of racism after referring to "niggers" in the lyrics of the Guns N' Roses song, "One in a Million", Axl Rose stated "I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me. I wanted to insult those particular black people. I didn't want to support racism. The term white nigger is also used in music, most notably in Elvis Costello's song Oliver's Army , see below.

The musical Show Boat , which subverts anti-miscegenation laws, from until features the word "nigger" as originally integral to the lyrics of "Ol' Man River" and "Cotton Blossom"; although deleted from the cinema versions, it is included in the EMI recording of the original score. Musical theatre historian Miles Kreuger and conductor John McGlinn propose that the word was not an insult, but a blunt illustration of how white people then perceived black people.

Some comedians have broached the subject, almost invariably in the form of social commentary. This was perhaps most famously done by stand-up comedian Chris Rock in his "Niggas vs. Black People" routine. Richard Pryor used to use "nigger" extensively, but later in life decided to restrict himself to "motherfucker". A shade of dark brown used to be known as "nigger brown" or simply "nigger"; other colors were also prefixed with the word.

Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people. Nigger brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack , given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters. In , a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E.

He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to nigger. Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word nigger from the "E.

The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September , the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using nigger would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque.

Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "nigger", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being see Niggerhead.

Most of these place names have long been changed. The island was renamed in after Cyrus H.