Query: "wigger"

[Shannon Detchemendy]

I am from a rural Missouri town.  I just recently turned 21 and I
remember having heard the term when I was a child. It is at
least 12 years old.




On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:11:03PM -0700, Gail Stygall wrote:
> ADSers:
> I am looking for origins and uses of the term "wigger."  One of my
> teenagers says that it was featured on one of the tv news magazines
> recently, but that he has never heard it in his larger, urban racially
> mixed high school.  Apparently the news magazine indicated that it was a
> white-on-white term.  Did anyone see this program or does anyone know of
> the origin?
> Gail Stygall
>
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