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it didn’t last 110 years after that. (1960s)
it isn’t still going on today.
did you know less than 60 years ago (some of your parents’ ages), white people used to have parties like potlucks where every one brought some food or drink item, they brought their children, sung songs, and had a great time - all while they murdered black people? it’s called lynching. get a strong stomach and google it.
ask an older black person you know about it. say, “would you mind if i asked you some questions about racism and how life was when you were growing up?” and if they answer in the affirmative (that is, if they say yes), ask them if it’s true black men were murdered because someone said they’d looked at a white woman. if they tell you they’ll answer your questions, make sure to ask them about how, less than 60 years ago, little black kids were murdered often - for just being little black kids. ask them about the tuskeegee experiments. ask them about margaret sanger and planned parenthood. ask them about the single mothers who had to raise half-white children alone because their white fathers wouldn’t admit they’d fathered a kid with a black person. ask them about how it was ILLEGAL to date or marry someone outside of your race. ask them, and then listen.
the reason black folks still talk about slavery and its aftereffect, institutionalized racism, is because it’s still happening. honey, we didn’t get a D-day. we didn’t get hordes of folks coming to our rescue. we got a lie about 40 acres and a mule. we got a white man in a big hat letting us go cos he thought it would help out other white folks. and when i say WE, i mean WE, cos some of our grand and great grandparents are still alive and they were children of slaves and indentured servants. some of our parents are old enough to tell you about not being able to use the same bathrooms as white people. some of our grand parents can tell you about Sundown Towns and why they won’t go to the doctor unless a bone is broken. There’s proof that slave owners purposely separated families and bred slaves - like animals - so they could have the biggest and strongest slaves to do their work for them. America half assed apologized for slavery in … 2008. Yes. 2008. Bill Clinton barely apologized for the tuskeegee experiments. shit, at one point it was an actual law that we weren’t really people so they counted us as three-fifths (3/5) of a person.
And it’s still happening today. Today black people with the same education and degrees STILL make less money than white folks. We still have less net worth. We STILL have more black folks unemployed than any other group. Hell, we’re still dealing with the institutionalization of families being torn apart - over 60% of babies born in black families grow up without a father in the home. Please wake the fuck up.
Wake up, racism isn’t dead, and there’s no such thing as “post-racial”. THAT’S the reason black folks still talk about it.
and BTW? Comparing the holocaust to slavery is unfair and offensive to Jewish people AND Black people. You minimize the horrible things that happened to both groups by saying shit as silly as, “Why don’t Jews talk about the holocaust all the time? Black people talk about racism all the time!” Srsly. That’s so offensive… I don’t even have words for it.
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, probably Harold R. Isaacs]. 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. More sympathetic writers late 18c. and early 19c. seem to have used black (n.) and, after the American Civil War, colored person. Also applied by English settlers to dark-skinned native peoples in India, Australia, Polynesia. The reclamation of the word as a neutral or positive term in black culture (not universally regarded as a worthwhile enterprise), often with a suggestion of “soul” or “style,” is attested first in the U.S. South, later (1968) in the Northern, urban-based Black Power movement. “You’re a fool nigger, and the worst day’s work Pa ever did was to buy you,” said Scarlett slowly. … There, she thought, I’ve said “nigger: and Mother wouldn’t like that at all. [Margaret Mitchell, “Gone With the Wind,” 1936] Used in combinations (e.g. nigger-brown) since 1840s for various dark brown or black hues or objects; euphemistic substitutions (e.g. Zulu) began to appear in these senses c.1917. Brazil nuts were called nigger toes by 1896. Variant niggah, attested from 1925 (without the -h, from 1969), is found usually in situations where blacks use the word. Nigra (1944), on the other hand, in certain uses reflects a pronunciation of negro meant to suggest nigger, and is thus deemed (according to a 1960 slang dictionary) “even more derog[atory] than ‘nigger.’ ” Slang phrase nigger in the woodpile attested by 1800; “A mode of accounting for the disappearance of fuel; an unsolved mystery” [R.H. Thornton, “American Glossary,” 1912]. Nigger heaven “the top gallery in a (segregated) theater” first attested 1878 in reference to Troy, N.Y.
Funny, I don’t see anything about that word meaning “ignorant person” at all. I fully believe that it was added to the dictionary just so folks could continue to say it and not feel bad about it. And people wonder why we get upset about it.
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