Nigger

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Nigger is a word that is used to describe black people. In the past it simply meant "a black person" but today some black people do not like it.

The word was used by most racists to describe people of African descent. Using the word can cause hatred.

Nigger in senses can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as an offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Sometimes people use nigger in a friendly way but most times it is used as an insult.

The actual word is sometimes used by people of Afro-Caribbean origin themselves as a friendly term amongst their own same-ethnicity communities. However used by an outsider is still seen as extremely offensive.

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