“That’s a NIGGER”, is the way many people classified black people back in the day. The word nigger is traced back to 1786 with the same denotation as it has now. A nigger as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as, “loosely or incorrectly applied to members of other dark-skinned races.” Throughout history the word nigger was never used in a manner that demonstrates pleasant things, it was always used to belittle a black person for not being similar to what the average person was (white). In the Oxford English Dictionary, all the examples the author provides for the reader reflect a negative meaning of that word. For example, in the dictionary it states to work like a nigger, is to work exceptionally hard. This example, regardless of the good outcome (work exceptionally hard), is still negative because of the word nigger. In the dictionary the denotation of the word nigger is always going to be negative regardless of the ch

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