The word initially described slaves who were brought mostly from West Africa by the Dutch, English, and Portuguese from what was then a huge "Nigerian Basin" which makes up part of the countries of Nigeria and Niger today. Thus original source of the word “nigger”.
During the slave era, the slave owner attempt to control the mental state of his slaves. He had field slaves and house slaves. The owner would use the word “nigger” to mentally degrade his slaves. A slave, when among his peers would use the word toward each other out of anger toward that person. This would give that slave a sense of power as he degrade others of his own race until he realize that he was also speaking of himself. …show more content…
By doing this, Black are staying on course with the former slave owner’s desires. He has used it to degrade us as the least of all creations without a real place on this planet. And his desires was to have his slaves and their descends to be trained to distrust and downgrade one another whenever possible. Those former slave owners would rejoice to know that those former slaves were still keeping themselves in an inferior position by using his word “nigger”. No matter how you say it, “nigger” with an english accent or “nigga” with a southern accent, the word still mean the same to the ears of the