Definitions
Etymologies
- From Spanish and Portuguese negro ("black"), from Latin nigrum, masculine accusative case of niger ("black"), from Proto-Indo-European *negr-, *negʷr- (“coloured, dark”). Cognate with Old Armenian ներկ (nerk, "paint, dye, colour"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Pritchard and Latham rightly protest against the error of considering the term negro synonymous with African.”
“The term negro, derived from the Spanish and the Latin words meaning”
“The term negro is not a national appellation, but is applied generally to about one-half of the population of Africa, including the most fertile portion of that continent.”
“The term negro is properly applied to the races inhabiting that part of Africa lying between latitude 10 degrees north, and 20 degrees south, and to their descendants in the old and new world.”
“He argued that the word "negro" - which Suarez admitted using once - does not necessarily have racist connotations in the player's homeland in Uruguay.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Did they never use the term "negro", even in 1961?”
“Liverpool's staunch defence of a player who has admitted using the Spanish word negro once during his row with Evra, but was found guilty of using it or negros seven times by an independent regulatory commission, has been viewed by many as the root cause.”
The Guardian: Liverpool seek talks with Manchester United over Luis Suárez affair
“Their manager, Kenny Dalglish, later reiterated that he did not regret the club's T-shirt gesture in support of Suárez, describing it as a "fabulous gesture", and the player also released his own statement in which he admitted using the word "negro" but made it clear that he did not accept the commission's decision that, said aggressively, it was unacceptable.”
The Guardian: Liverpool will not appeal against Luis Suárez's eight-game ban
“What we soon learned, however, was that Liverpool had no intention of showing any contrition, Suárez would not be apologising and, in the eyes of the club, the Football Association is to blame for damaging the reputation of a man that was found to have used the word "negro" seven times.”
The Guardian: Liverpool's blind loyalty to Luis Suárez leaves no room for contrition
“Luis Suárez insists he never used the word 'negro' in a derogatory way in his clash with Patrice Evra.”
The Guardian: Luis Suárez apologises but Liverpool still face criticism in race row
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘negro’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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No Hablo Español
Despite seven years of classes and being half-Puerto Rican.
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daleshipley's Words
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
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the hatelist
words and phrases I hate.
( vomit, randomness )
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ethnic slurs
Different ways people insult people of other ethnic origins.
kike, nigger, nig, mick, polack, wetback, honky, jap, paki, towelhead, chink, coon and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for negro.
seanahan And the United Negro College Fund is a respected organization. Aug 26, 2008
rolig I understand your point, and agree that a white person who insists on using the word "Negro" instead of "African-American" or even "black" almost certainly has a problem with regard to race. But I would point out that back in the days of Jim Crow, "Negro" was the respectful way to refer to people of African ancestry, as was also "colored person." Neither expression ever carried derogatory connotations in themselves (compare the name of the civil rights organization NAACP). And even today, I don't think the word "Negro" is in itself derogatory; mostly, it signifies to me the bias or ignorance of the person using the word.
A good friend of mine, who is black, the vice president of a major company, and also a rather large man, likes to use the word to describe the effect he has when he walks into a room of older, conservative, wealthy white people: "I just know what they're thinking: 'Who is this large Negro man and what is he doing here?'" My friend's point, I think, it that he imagine such people to be mentally stuck back in the 1960s.
As for people, who can't hear the difference between words like Negro, nigger, Nigeria, Niger, niggardly, Negritude, Negroponte, etc., well, they should learn to use a dictionary. Aug 24, 2008
renumeratedfrog Negro was indeed the acceptable word for a black person, but that was 50 years ago when the Jim Crow laws were still in effect in huge parts of America. Through mere association, that word now carries racist implications, in my opinion.
And also, it sounds like a prelude to saying "nigger", which is why some closet racists revel in using it publically instead of nigger. Not to mention that some people have a kneejerk reaction to any word containing "nig", such as denigrate or Nigeria. Aug 24, 2008
rolig Well, I wouldn't do that, unless we were friends and joking around, because most black Americans (I'm not that familiar with how blacks in other countries feel about the matter) prefer to be called "African-American" and view the word Negro as a historical term. I don't know (and I'd be glad to hear from any African-American wordies about what they think) if anyone would get particularly upset if I were to refer, for example, to "the percentage of homeowners among Negroes in Alabama in 1950 compared to the percentage among Caucasians." It's all about context.
I guess I could compare this to the word "homosexual". It's not a friendly word, but it's not insulting either. People who use it exclusively because they have trouble saying "gay" or "lesbian" are probably not friendly toward gay and lesbian people. But there is no way that I would compare "homosexual" to, say, "faggot" as a term of abuse. And the same, I would guess, is how blacks feel about Negro vs. nigger. Aug 24, 2008
renumeratedfrog rolig: Just try calling a black person a negro to his face. Aug 24, 2008
rolig What makes you think this? Aug 24, 2008
renumeratedfrog Nowadays, calling someone a negro is only a tiny bit better than calling them a nigger. Aug 24, 2008