the files of nukirk

Alright, here’s something funny.

I decided to do research on “American Exceptionalism” to see if it was an actual culture. (Yes, it is, but I wanted to write an essay and be more formal about it)

My first self-thesis was “Why does the calendar here has Sundays to start the week, while other calenders have Monday to start the week?” I would then type into google this question. 

Then I thought “Let me look deeper into this mess”

Turns out there’s a whole list of racial slurs that I didn’t know about. Which includes (but not limited to)…

• Alligator bait
• Ann - A black woman acting too white
• Ape
• Aunt Jemima / Aunt Jane / Aunt Mary / Aunt Sally
• Brownie
• Buffie
• Burrhead / Burr-head / Burr head (black hair)
• Coconut
• Jigaboo, jiggabo, jigarooni, jijjiboo, zigabo, jig, jigg, jigga, jigger
• Groid
• Jungle bunny
• Kaffir, kaffer, kaffir, kafir, kaffre, kuffar
• Pickaninny 
• Quashie
• Spade
• Spook
• Tan
• Tar baby

And these are just SOME… for a complete list, check here.

Most of these words are targeted at Black people. The majority of this list, even thought not complete, is mostly aimed at Black people all over the world. 

So, after looking into it, turns out “Monday” is a racial slur, according to this guy.

I didn’t even mean to learn all this! But it seems that banning the N-word would be kinda ridiculous because there’s a bunch of other words to replace it.

Google can teach you anything… wither you like it or not.