Re: Ghandi referred to blacks as "Kaffirs" (i.e. "niggers")
- From: "All Bad" <all_badnot_really@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:21:10 -0400
<Hasley9@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kaffir means pagan or infidel.
That would be an Arabic meaning of the term. Since the Afrikaneers were not
of an Arabic linguistic background, but a Dutch one, that meaning is
unlikely. I suspect that Kaffir is derived from kever, the word for beetle.
In German, the word for beetle is kafer.
- All Bad
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