'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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