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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:26:17 -0700 (PDT)

the spanish and french languages did not have a whole
lot of influence in Missouri... exept maybe along the
mississippi. It is probable that by the time the
creek in Gene's area was named the only way the locals
had heard the word nigger was in relation of black
people.
Van Dell



'
--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

>
>
> > 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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