When I went to the south, I noticed that some people referred to windows as “winders”. So I wonder if the N word comes from the same type of poor pronunciation of the word negro.
If so, windows should also feel really offended if they’re referred to as being winders.
Actually, I think mispronunciation of ‘negro’ is the origin of the ubiquitous “N” word.
As a child, when I used to hear LBJ, Bull Connor, George Wallace, etc. say ‘negro’ on the tv news it was almost indistinguishable to my ear from the racial slur.
The again, it WAS the 1960s, so maybe they were actually using the racial slur during Cronkite’s broadcast... ;-)
Nigger is just a poor pronunciation of the word Negro which is nothing more than the Spanish word for black.
Being that the South adjoins Spanish speaking mexico, it stands to reason that whites simply heard the Mexicans calling the blacks Negro (which means black) and started using a it and it eventually morphed into Nigger.