A word used to describe a person of
White race, but who:
1) is
acting Black (wigga), or
2) who shares the same social status as people from the Black ghetto (especially people from Catholic countries, mostly: Poland, Spain, Italy, also Ireland), or
3) who is working very hard and gets little money for it, referring to Black people cruelly enslaved and forced to work for nothing (i.e. Polish people in the Netherlands), or
4) who is discriminated on the ethnic surface (i.e. "
Untermensch" meaning "subhuman" referring to Jews, Poles, Gypsies and Serbs along with all non-Europeans).
5) also used by the KKK and White supremacists to describe some ethnicities who are white, but do not belong to the pure Germanic/Nordic/Aryan race, which are for instance ethnic Jews, Slavic people and Southern-European people.
"There was a dramatic shortage of Polish brides and Poles were very often called “
white niggers” by the WASPs, settlers of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant origin. Hence,
the Poles often chose Black women, sharing almost the same social status.
Those Poles, the earliest emigrants, were mostly simple farmers for whom black women, born and raised on the cotton fields, were
the perfect match. The word “racism” did not exist in the Polish mentality. "
