[Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Tue Apr 29 21:48:48 EDT 2008
> Not
> sure why, but there is a crossing of Bryant Creek about a mile from
> here named Nigger Ford. I have been unable to verify that perhaps it
> is so-called because a black family lived there.
'Nigger' is a creole anglicizaton of the Spanish 'negro' or perhaps the
French 'niger' which both simply mean 'black'. In the old parlance of the South,
it is not a pejorative word. A species of pine here is called 'nigger pine"
because the wood is streaked in black and what is scientifically classified as a
Black Oak is in the vernacular a "nigger oak".
Knowing that the word has become offensive since the time of the old South,
most people don't use it. But it is a bias on your part to think that the
person who named the crossing 'Nigger Ford' had anything but its color in mind. </HTML>
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