[Tara27427]

I never thought that because I never attached anything having to do with race to the word. I don’t know any white people who think that way about the word, either. Actually, I looked it up in the dictionary and it doesn’t literally mean ‘to blacken’. It means to ‘to cast aspersions on’ or ‘to deny the importance or validity of’. Its etymology, not definition, is: ‘Latin denigratus, past participle of denigrare, from de- + nigrare to blacken, from nigr-, niger black’. It just comes from the Latin word for the color black and has nothing to do with race. I guess the word sort of means ‘to blacken’ in a metaphorical way, but I don’t connect it to race at all. Your question made me sad. I wouldn’t feel bad about the word if I were you. There is nothing wrong with having black skin, it’s just certain ignorant people who feel that way. Don’t let them win. Anybody so stupid to equate the negative metaphorical ‘to blacken’ with black skin is an ignorant, racist idiot. But anyone that stupid probably doesn’t have a clue what the word means, anyhow.

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Name : Tara27427, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 31, City : Milwaukee, State : WI, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, 

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