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What Does Nigger Mean

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However, in this paper I am going to on the poststructuralism and how one thing can be interpreted in multiple different ways by different people. I think experiences, circumstances, and time periods has a lot to do with how we make meanings of certain things. For instance, the way we interpreted the word “nigger” has changed over the years. Back in the day when Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were alive, just saying the word “nigger” was considered to be a racist remark especially coming from a white individual. “Niggers” were considered to be the low of the low and was treated as such. “Niggers” couldn’t eat, sit, nor use the restroom with Caucasians. This term was use to show the inequality amongst the races. Blacks were fighting and dying behind this word. …show more content…

However, people who hasn’t grew up in that time frame such as myself doesn’t necessarily relate the “nigger” to those understandings. Not all, but a lot of people in today’s society use the term “nigger” loosely. We use it on a daily in a friendly manner and not all blacks that offense when someone of the Caucasian race refer to them as a “nigger” or even use “nigger” to refer to themselves. This generation has also changed the term to “nigga” and although the “er” is taking off some people still gets offended by it. For me personally it depends in what content the word is used. For example, when I meet up with my friends, we say “what’s up nigga?” or when my best friend talks about her boyfriend she refers to him as “my nigga. In situations like this the term isn’t interpret as being offensive. However, when a white person says “I hate niggers” or “niggers are worthless” than I interpret in a whole another

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