Very Very Very Important Question For Those Of You Who Considers Yourself "Pro-Black/Conscious"

[FeloniousMonk]

It really started after cacs took power in the 1490's when the Moors were kicked out of Spain. Black skin was now seen as the enemy and when they started to enslave Africans they called them "N" word as an insult. The stupid cacs couldn't pronounce negus/naga so they started to call them ****** or nikka instead because it was easier. Thats the basics of it

SO prior to, what was the spanish term for black if it wasnt negro?

 

[SmokyQuartz]

SO prior to, what was the spanish term for black if it wasnt negro?

blanco. They switched it around by the way

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Who?

People who use or are in a particular mindstate of arrested development.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

blanco. They switched it around by the way

So blanco meant black, not blank. And to spite the moors they started calling them negra, because they couldnt enunciate negus? and just for the hell of it changed the definition of the word blanco which meant black to white?



Daylyt couldnt have put it anymore eloquent....

edit:SO whats the spanish term for white prior to?

 

[SmokyQuartz]

So blanco meant black, not blank. And to spite the moors they started calling them negra, because they couldnt enunciate negus? and just for the hell of it changed the definition of the word blanco which meant black to white?



Daylyt couldnt have put it anymore eloquent....

edit:SO whats the spanish term for white prior to?

They used it to describe social hierarchy ( white on top black on bottom ) and they didn't really have a language before the Moors came in. Remember these people were savages of the highest order

 

[UpAndComing]

They used it to describe social hierarchy ( white on top black on bottom ) and they didn't really have a language before the Moors came in. Remember these people were savages of the highest order

Yup the civilized the uncivilized

Speak on it gawd

 

[FeloniousMonk]

They used it to describe social hierarchy ( white on top black on bottom ) and they didn't really have a language before the Moors came in. Remember these people were savages of the highest order

I thought negus was Ethiopian, not Arabic, tho.

 

[SmokyQuartz]

I thought negus was Ethiopian, not Arabic, tho.

It is. The first Arabs were black

 

[FeloniousMonk]

It is. The first Arabs were black

Im not denoting the color, Im denoting the language of the culture i.e the word being Ethiopian, not North African..is all Im sayin..

 

[KingFreeman]

It pretty much boils down to this: Out of all the things we could've came up with and put into mass use as a people to call ourselves, we adopt a b*stardization (barely that) of a slur.

 

[SmokyQuartz]

Im not denoting the color, Im denoting the language of the culture i.e the word being Ethiopian, not North African..is all Im sayin..

Language travels. Africa was not as divided as it is now then it was back then

 

[feelosofer]

I abolished the term from my vocabulary a couple of years ago (on and offline), what amazes me is how little I miss it.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Language travels. Africa was not as divided as it is now then it was back then

So the Moors conquered Spain, who had their own language, decided to use another culture of African language to describe skin color...gotcha..

 

[SmokyQuartz]

So the Moors conquered Spain, who had their own language, decided to use another culture of African language to describe skin color...gotcha..

Um no thats not what i said .

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Um no thats not what i said .

Umm..you said the moors brought language to spain..Part of that language was the word Negus that is Ethiopian.