It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by LifeIsEnergy
reply to post by Sumdumguy
No, you are sadly mistaken. The word Negroid was the term that was already used to describe their heritage, and the word 'n-word' was created and used by slave owners in the 1800's as a derogatory slang for the word Negroid. Do your research before you comment brother.
Mod Note: Do Not Evade the Automatic Censors – Please Review This Link.
[edit on Sat Aug 21 2010 by DontTreadOnMe]
1786, earlier neger (1568, Scottish and northern England dialect), from Fr. nègre, from Sp. negro (see Negro). From the earliest usage it was "the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks" [cited in Gowers, 1965]. But as black inferiority was at one time a near universal assumption in English-speaking lands, the word in some cases could be used without deliberate insult
Originally posted by LifeIsEnergy
I don't see what your point is? Negro means Black.
Originally posted by mnmcandiez
reply to post by Esoteric Teacher
I SAID I was a white person in my post. Did you not read it?
And I edited my post because the size did not format properly so I just gave up and bolded the sentence. PLEASE read the post before you comment on it. It makes you look very ignorant.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Originally posted by mnmcandiez
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
[edit on 8/21/2010 by mnmcandiez]
how does one tell if it is a white person posting in a thread concerning "The N-Word"?
there are subtle hints.
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by a white person]
[edit on 21-8-2010 by Esoteric Teacher]