The color of my skin is actually brown when based off of actual colors/crayons but when described as to my nationality it is black or negro or noir or niger depending on what language you speak. Here in America home of "take it & make it yours" approach, we have "stolen" the French, Spanish/Portuguese, & Latin words but altered them to make it our own. & how is that niger is pronounced ˈnī-jər ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggnige01=Niger ) & negro is ( http://www.forvo.com/word/negro/ ) yet we now have the o’ so popular pronunciation ( http://www.answers.com/topic/nigger ). Being that the originators of the word/term/phrase/ whatever were not hmm I guess African-Americans (AAs) would be the best choice, how is it AAs feel that they are the only ones able to say/use it? *ok so I guess that "take it & make it yours" thing is not limited to Americans (Kanye shrug)* But AAs dropped the er in Nigg & added an a ...
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