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| Author: | Sandra John [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:13 am ] |
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| Author: | RF [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:36 am ] |
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| Author: | Donnie Mac Leod [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:48 am ] |
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| Author: | RF [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:54 am ] |
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| Author: | RF [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:03 am ] |
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| Author: | Donnie Mac Leod [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:08 am ] |
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A history lesson is in order. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/databa ... m?HHID=672 During the 1660s and 1670s, Maryland and Virginia adopted laws specifically designed to denigrate blacks. These laws banned interracial marriages and sexual relations and deprived blacks of property. Other laws prohibited blacks from bearing arms or traveling without written permission. In 1669, Virginia became the first colony to declare that it was not a crime to kill an unruly slave in the ordinary course of punishment. That same year, Virginia also prohibited masters from freeing slaves unless the freedmen were deported from the colony. Virginia also voted to banish any white man or woman who married a black, mulatto, or Indian. |
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| Author: | Sandra John [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:55 am ] |
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| Author: | RF [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:57 am ] |
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Indeed the word comes from the Latin root niger through the French usage of the 14th century meaning 'to blacken,' referring to reputation, (syn. to sully) and 'to darken' referring to ambiguating that which is clear. http://unauthorised.org/anthropology/an ... /0525.html Now granted, the scholar in this link doesn't accept the racial implication of the word. However, I have seen it argued that using terms such as "blacken" as synonymous with "to sully" is inherently racial, and even descends from racism. Therefore, the term "denigrate" is a racial term. |
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| Author: | Ante Bozanich [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:59 am ] |
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| Author: | Sandra John [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:15 am ] |
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| Author: | Ante Bozanich [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:28 am ] |
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