A word derived from spanish meaning black. In the time of the slave trade spanish people used to call black people 'negro' people (logical huh?) and some fucktard misinterpretted it and came up with the racist word nigger.

Meaning 'Black' in Spanish

Back in the 1700's and 1800's when a slave master wanted to summon his slave.

Person of African descent. Not a degrogatory term as witnessed by example below. Not in common useage anymore, as African-American has become politically correct, however, one wonders what a Negroid person in Africa should be termed when describing ethnicity.

A non-derogative term used to describe peoples of an African culture. Although of benign nature, people tend to regard it as an insult as it has been implied as such in earlier times.

Not a racial slur. Just spanish for black.
You can check a crayon and you'll see.

"member of a black-skinned race of Africa," 1555, from Sp. or Port. negro "black," from L. nigrum (nom. niger) "black," of unknown origin. Use with a capital N- became general early 20c. (e.g. 1930 in "New York Times" stylebook) in ref. to U.S. citizens of African descent, but because of its perceived association with white-imposed attitudes and roles the word was ousted late 1960s in this sense by Black (q.v.).

Negress (1786) is from Fr. négresse, fem. of nègre "negro." Negroid is attested from 1859, a hybrid, with Gk. suffix -oeides "like, resembling."

the coolest way a white man can say "black person" without getting shot