- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 45•9 months ago
Also, ‘Negro’ isn’t the N word. Capital N Negro was the preferred term for decades, up until the Malcolm X era.
- Mint ( @Mint@lemmy.one ) 30•9 months ago
Also that word in bunch of languages still means black person
- Riven ( @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 17•9 months ago
Can confirm for Spanish.
- Kwakigra ( @Kwakigra@beehaw.org ) 21•9 months ago
Context: During the Haitian Revolution, France hired Polish mercenaries to go to Haiti and help with putting the slave rebellion down. After arriving, the Polish mercenaries immediately recognized they had much more in common with the other people being oppressed by major European powers and joined the revolution on the Haitians’ side. After the revolution and because of some of the most severe international sanctions in world history (many of which are still in effect to this day), the Polish mercenaries were now completely Haitian and were legally declared “black” by the new Haitian government.
- ZILtoid1991 ( @ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ) 6•9 months ago
Isn’t Vaush/Ian Kochinski like part-Polish? That makes the N-word incident not problematic.
- baseless_discourse ( @baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ) 5•9 months ago
I was only recently learned that Haiti and Jamaica are in North America…
- rumschlumpel ( @ichmagrum@feddit.de ) Deutsch1•9 months ago
How did Poland earn it?