What is the history of the N word? When did it first appear and why did it spread? And how come it seems to come from Americans south?
What is the history of the N word? When did it first appear and why did it spread? And how come it seems to come from Americans south?
It came from slavery in the American South.
Was that not in my post?
Welll, that's a long and complex subject. And, it's one that has already been relatively well written up on Wikipedia
Now, I know that's not really the point of asking a question in a community like this, but the subject covers more ground than I can pull from memory, so I'd just be borrowing from online sources to build the answer that someone already did better than I would.
But, the subject is one that I've looked into before. For various reasons, I had a bit of hatred for the word, and I tend to like to understand the few things I hate so that I can hate them with efficacy. The wiki version matches my memory of things pretty much exactly, though my reading was originally before the internet was a thing the average person had access to. Which isn't much of a reassurance since I'm just a random asshole, but that's all I got lol.