the only way I ever heard nigger used was as a directed derogatory except for junior high slaughterball which on occasion was called something incorporating that term
forced busing Christmas of 1969 sorta put a damper on that one..lol..in a town back then 40% black...now it's 85% black
truth be told to youngsters, the term nigger is more used today than in the waning days of Jimmy Crow in which I was reared
back then blacks rarely used it except for stern admonishment and white use was relegated to country folk and white trash ..usually a class distinction use...middle and upper class whites would never have said nigger in public...that might have said nigra in the home...but that faded by early 80s too even in the Delta
now blacks use it all the time as do many whites often directed at each other, and it's the tone that infers the distaste more than anything
I only use it if very angry..like fighting time if a person of color used such language on me..those days are long gone btw..9 years ago was last fight and with a young “cracker”...my daddy whipped me for saying nigger as a boy...we had hundreds working for us and he thought it disrespectful..and it was..shame no one cares anymore
the heightened use of the term nigger is as indicative of the coarsening of the culture as much as illegitimacy and the pervasiveness of pornography
Mostly it was black on black usage, but there were a couple white on black uses of it.
It was nauseating hearing that word so many times.
Guess they’ll be after anyone who has friends in Louisiana that are coonasses next.....
I’ll admit to using the term nigger riggin but it IMO and experience was based on the term “niggardly “ itself.... as in not doing it right or lazy way of fixin something quickly.
Only then do we get we consider why this hunting lease was named Niggerhead......:o)
“Niggerhead” or “nigger head” was used as a name for all sorts of things, including commercial products, places, plants and animals, as well as a colloquial technical term in industry, mining and seafaring.
Flora and fauna nomenclatures include the word nigger. The Arizonan nigger-head cactus, Echinocactus polycephalus is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns. The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are “Kansas niggerhead” and “Wild niggerhead”. In Oceania, the “niggerhead termite” (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia....
Just my opinion on the matter....:o)
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