When I was born way back in 1970, the second week of February was called ‘Negro History Week’. I always thought that white gave us the second week of February because the great Republican president, Abraham Lincoln has a born day on the 12th.
Now that isn’t the exact origin of what we now call BLACK HISTORY MONTH but I do have a TRUE STORY for you.
The REAL TALK history of the word NIGGER.
The word nigger is a derivative of a German word, NEGGAR. The definition for this word is ‘plowman’. In farming, the plowman is the toughest, most back-breaking and menial task. The plowman has to drive the team of animals through the field. By the end of the day, the plowman is up to his knees in shit and animal piss. The indentured servants that were assigned this work by their feudal lords were expected to do their work in any weather and in any condition.
Fast forward to the settling of America. The colonists that were wealthy bought tracts of land and they brought their indentured servants with them to assist in farming the land. Upon completion of their term of servitude, the indentured servants would become landowners themselves. With vast areas of undeveloped land, the settlers needed more NEGGARS to help them clear forestry and till the soil. The indigenous peoples of America were little interested in helping the settlers and were actually more likely than not to slit the colonists throats while they slept.
The colonists needed a relatively cheap source of labor and manpower. In steps the great Mediterranean traders with their human chattel from central Africa. The colonists were so enthralled by the prospect of these workers because they understood agriculture and could withstand the oppressive humid climate in the southern colonies. The colonists had found their new NEGGARS. For simplicity and clarity purposes, Europeans like to name areas after the resource they extract from those regions. IVORY COAST, GOLD COAST and NIGER were names that were assigned to regions for the commodities they yielded.
The German word NEGGAR begat the African nation NIGER begat the American word NIGGER. The word NIGGER has nothing to do with the Latin word NEGRO any more than the word ‘axe’ shares the same meaning as the word ‘ask’. The name of the governor in California (Schwarze-Neggar) actually means Black-Plowman.
The point of all this info is that when you do the knowledge on this word you find that white called other white the word NIGGER even before they used it as a slur against Black folks. So please feel free to call any white that you know a NIGGER.
REPARATIONS NOW!
Damn, blogs do provide news you can use. Now I’m off to the mall to share my newfound knowledge.
i’ll take my 40 acres and an SUV now thank you!
Bout to educate some of these corporate mofo’s today!!! lol
Error check…Not tryin to hate but I majored in German and also did some quick recapping on the web (German-English Dictionary) and the German word for plowman is Pfluger…but…that doesnt mean that NEGGAR didnt mean that…it just means that its not in the dictionary. Hunnit
Starx,
That is where you fucked up. You went to the internets for information. You need to come to the internets for knowlege.
Long before Europeans had left the caves and the barren tundra to start kicking some colored peoples azzes they pretty much kicked their own azzes, and good too. The whole thing about lopping off peoples heads and keeping them at the dinner table as a candle holder is a classic Dutch tradition.
It would have helped the settlers of America too if they had originated from a place that wasn’t as barren or infertile as the Euro soil was. All them dudes knew how to grow were potatoes. You see what that did to the Irish.
Trust me, if the criminals and castaways that were sent to settle America didn’t always catch a bad case of sunburn and they knew how to farm shit on their own there wouldn’t have been any need for Africans here in America. The free labor force would have been the docile Native Americans and the indentured servants.
Digg a little deeper Starx and you might come across the truth, but then again, I don’t think that you can handle the truth
you is one funny style !!neggar – schwartz-neggar – sheis-kopf- funny style
True Story:
The aforementioned Irish chicks lucky enough to escape the potato famine came to Ameria and placed marriage ads (basically early personals) looking for African men to marry. This was purely an issue of practicality — black men knew how to till the land, plow the earth, plant seed and were renowned for their ability to nuture a family as well as a farm. And these ladies were not interested in the starvation diet.
Which is why there are so many black-irish ancestry stories in the African-American family tree, especially in Canada (greater concentration of free blacks) and on the American frontier (no one was out there and if you were tough enough to survive in the wilderness, the six other people within 100 miles could care less about what you looked like).
screw what your talking about i’m going to blow me up a fucking high school in mississippi =) have a nice day