Quote Originally Posted by arr&bee View Post
The word[negro]is an american bastardization of the portuguese word[azenegu]which means black,but as we[blacks]were moved out of africa to other parts of the world the name went through changes with little or no respect intended.
Jai, I'm familiar with the term Azenegue refering to blacks in West Africa and their relationships with the Portugese; colonisation I should say, but Negro, I've undestood to
directly come from Negra in Spanish which means black. Spain brought slaves to and/or
colonised most of the Americas which is why Spanish in some variations is spoken from
Mexico ,Puerto Rico and Cuba to Argentina, Columbia and Peru. Portugal basically only
captured Brazil but they brought as many slaves as were brought to America and colonised
inland African countries like Mozambique as well as the Cape Verde Islands [[which BTW
gave us the parents of Tavares).Negra is the term most bastardized today...with pride no less..