The 'N' Word in America

The 'N' word in America, has a history of a word that still sits at the centre of anti-Black verbal assault.  The word can be often traced to the Latin word, meaning Black.  When used as a noun it is the word, for a 'Negro' (Black person) in English, and simply the colour Black in Spanish and Portuguese. 

Whatever, its origins, by the early 1800s, it was firmly established as a derogatory concept.  In the 21st century, it remains a principal term of 'White Racists', regardless of who is using it.  Over time, racial slurs have victimised all racial and ethnic groups, but no other American group has endured as many racially demeaning names as Black people.  The word carries with it much of the hatred and disgust deliberately directed towards Black Americans.

Historically, the 'N' word is synonymous with the making fun of, and to ridicule all Blacks.  It remains a term of exclusion, a verbal reason for discrimination.  Whether used as a noun, verb, or adjective, it strengthened the stereotype of the lazy, stupid, dirty and of a worthless nobody.

No other American racial slur carries more of a purposeful term of such cruelty.  The 'N' word is the ultimate American insult, used to offend a whole ethnic group. The entertainment media, from vaudeville to television and film, portrayed Blacks as docile servants, happy-go-lucky idiots, and dangerous thugs.  Many Black artists today feel that they must still conform to this stereotype to get by and gain popularity. They even use the 'N' word, using delusional reasoning to justify themselves.  The criminal justice system appears to sanction a double standard of justice, including its unspoken approval of the belief that all black people must be guilty of something.

This also speaks of the newly found by-word of 'political correctness' which is now viewed as a right-wing insult, which is claimed to have started life as a left-wing term of behavioural approval.  Nonetheless, to insult is to speak to or treat with disrespect or of scornful abuse.  These days there is often a hidden agenda by 'White Racists'.  

Nonetheless, it might be difficult to always sense that something is true by instinct, but not necessarily by discernible facts.  There might not be any evidence of 'intent' which implies a general desire or plan to accomplish a perceived aim.  Nevertheless, the "N" word should be consigned by all to history just as slavery.