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What Word Nigga Doesn T Offend Me
The word “Nigga” and why it doesn’t offend me.

From what I was taught this word “Nigga” came from way back in the day. You see that’s what a slave owner used to call us. But to me that is not a name like Susan and Joseph this word has a real meaning. But, if you look for “Nigger” in the dictionary it says it’s Slang: Extremely disparaging and Offensive. A person of any race or origin regarded as disgraceful, lower, ignorant, etc. But if you look for “Nigga” it says extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga. Which to me isn’t true because there has been times when I have heard white people call there friends that. To me these words are the same but have to total different meanings and the

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