The word Nigger is a noun in the English language. The word originated as a neutral term for black people as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun Negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective Niger (color black). It was often used adversely, by the mid-20th century, particularly in the United States, its usage had become unambiguously derogatory, a common ethnic slur usually directed at black people of Subsaharan African descent. During the 1619s, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seed of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ultimately divide the nation. The Americans would use the word “Nigger” when they would refer to the African slaves. It was a word to…show more content… In the article “Chuck D Responds to Surge Knight’s Approval of N-Word”, Suge Knight suggests that the term “African-American” should be dropped from the American vocabulary because to him it is an “offensive” term and does not want to be called African-American because he is not from Africa. He would not mind though if someone were to refer to -him as “Nigga”. Chuck D does not agree that the term African-American is technically an interchangeable term for Black people. He does not believe that replacing it with the N-word is a better option. In the article “Chuck D Responds to Suge Knight’s Approval of N-Word”, Chuck D says, “Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water,” Chuck D also said. “Being a n****r or n***a without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.” He also stated, “rappers don’t really hold the right to use the word in their music for creative purposes because the use of the word itself just isn’t that creative in the first place.” He explained that “any creative artists can make great music without having to use the N-word repetitively. He slammed rappers who use the word more than three times in one song as “lazy.” In the article the writer, Taylor Gordon, also says, “Hopefully, his comments will encourage some rappers and other artists to try to be a…show more content… In the article they say that the rappers and hip-hop artists who use the N-word should remember the ugly past of the word and just because they defend the word saying that they are making it a positive term the word still has a bad history. Oprah commented on the word when she went to one of Jay-Z’s concert, “When Oprah Winfrey interviewed rapper Jay-Z in 2009; she pointed out how she attended a show of his and witnessed both black and white young people in the audience screaming out the N-word. She pointed out that this phenomenon didn’t seem to affect Jay-Z and questioned if his use of the slur in songs was necessary. That’s because Winfrey finds it difficult to detach the N-word from its history of brutality. “When I hear the N-word, I still think about every black man who was lynched—and the N-word was the last thing he heard,” she explained.” Mary Angelou a famous poet and writer commented on the word when she heard Common use one of her poems verses in one of his tracks and used the N-word, “Angelou has not only said she “abhors” the slur but also characterized it as “dangerous and vulgar” to blacks. Angelou told the New York Post: “"I had no idea that Common was using the piece we had done together on [a track] in which he also used the N-word numerous times. I’m surprised and