How should nigger be defined? Is it a part of the America cultural inheritance? Why does nigger generate such powerful reactions? Is it a more hurtful racial epithet than insults such as kike, gook, wetback, and honky? "Nigger and Nigga is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, at the same time, words that remind African Americans of tragic American experiences," said by Randall Kennedy in his book title, "nigger." The term Nigga and Nigger should have no distinctive difference in their meaning. The term Nigga derived from the word Nigger, which is commonly used in the African-American communities as a term of endearment.
Nonetheless, no matter how the term is spelled or used it still embodies hundreds of years of physical dehumanizing and psychological torment against African-Americans.
Nigga comes from the word niggardly, which means "insufficient to task," that is how the word developed. All slaves knew work associated with their culture and not the American culture, left them with nothing, so when freed in the late 1800's they had no other trade skills. So they were "insufficient to task" or niggardly. The word "niggardly" was used first by Thomas J. Peace in the early 1800's. There are many different interpretations of the meaning and origin of the word "nigga" and many different attempts to rationalize the use of it. .
However, all agree that it is a word originally created by racist whites to express contempt for black people and to convince whites of their superiority. "Nigger" was created as a combination of the Spanish (European) word "negro," which means "black," and the Greek word "necro," which means "dead." Those who designed the word intended to plant in the minds of whites, blacks, and the entire world the image of black people as inferior, contemptuous, and mentally dead. This was done to support the psychological enslavement that was necessary to keep black people physically enslaved, the whites responsible for slavery wanted everyone to accept the false idea that black people were not even human.
