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Question

I've just heard about a channell in Mexico that is called *igga.

Does anyone know the purpose of this channel? Do the letters spell out something else?

Some one, hep me out....

Answer 1

never heard of it but.... have you heard of this....

Act 13:1  Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Niger = "black"

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Answer 2

You got it wrong is nipper, as in www.nipper.com.mx, and its something like Hi 5, is all over tv in here.

I´ll know than for an African American the word *igga is an insult  most of the times, due to the history of discrimination towards the black people and the cognitations that envolves that.

But it really is only a colour in Latin, there was two types , the vulgar latin (*egro) and the cult latin (niger).  in spanish *egro still how we call the colour,...If  you ever read the lyrics of an Opera called Carmina Burana, in some part the word niger appears a lot, saying something like  bibit niger , bibit Albus, (drink Black , drink White) .

I think my point is that  in other parts of the world the word niger or *egro is  not an insult, since there is not the history behind it,  and if somebody use that out side the USA, don´t think that they are trying to insult the African americans, they are simply saying a colour.

I have a friend that comes from Cali Colombia he is Black, and we knickname  him *egro, he loves it and even he´s e-mail adress stars with "El *egro" since he´s proud of the colour..but thats because here is only a colour...not insult intended whenever the word comes out.