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Sun Aug-15-10 07:58 AM
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21. Well, that's all fine and good, but I'd go even further

to say negro is a derivation of NGR (meaning God, Divine, Great), as stated previously became Niger way before the Spanish and English. I'm saying just because Europeans took a great Afroasiatic root word and sullied it, does not make it the correct or original meaning of the word.

Niger means Great River or King River, not black river. Nigeria is the feminine meaning Queen, not land of the blacks.

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