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(Pronunciation Key)nig·ger Listen: [ ngr ]
n. Offensive Slang


a. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: "You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger" (James Baldwin). b. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.

Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people: "Gun owners are the new niggers . . . of society" (John Aquilino).

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[Alteration of dialectal neger, black person, from French nègre, from Spanish negro ; see Negro.]

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Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: "You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger" (James Baldwin)

Meanwhile, note how Black is capitalized, but not white.  Can't be any plainer than that.