From: Sander Sweers <sander.sweers_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:50:15 +0200

I think the word comes a reagea-punk band called bad brains (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Brains). This was an American
all-black hardcore punk and heavy metal band (quote wikipedia).

In the netherlands (an i suspect in many other languages) neger
originaly stoud for a group of dark skinned people living south of the
sahara (wikipedia in dutch but also available in german, swedish...
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neger). The terms is derived from the
latin word niger which means black.

So the term negerpunk would then translate to punk performed by niger
people. In this context i see this could be politically incorrect but
not racial discrimination.

Sander

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Received on 2005-09-12