Nigger vs. Colored, et al.

[Tom Zurinskas]

I coached my son when he was small in soccer.  We had one black kid on the team whose father was from Africa.  His name was Nega, NAY-guh (~Naegu).  As I yelled his name sometimes from the sideline "Hey Nega, move up." I wonder if folks took me rightly.  But he certainly was one fine "Nega".


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Poster: Wilson Gray
> Subject: Re: Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Michael Newman
> wrote:
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> > in current usage for many speakers, the form nigga has no racial reference. It's essentially > dude, but for a different demographic.
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> Being, like Dave Chappelle, a nigger who uses "nigger" a lot, let me
> say rather, that as everything else in life, it depends. The
> trickeration of spelling or of pronunciation is not what matters.
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> And, as you yourself point out, you're working with children.
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> BTW, you're not related to the late Edwin Newman, who wrote that the
> insertion of _like_ into the flow of a sentence or conversation was
> the due to the influence of the speech of Negroes, are you?
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