Hi!

Background: I've been looking into the history of words recently. To my surprise, the word "nazi" was actually created shortly after the nationalistic socialist (nazi) party's inception by the party's political enemies. In other words, it was always meant to be a demeaning/derogatory term right from the very start and not a objective / neutral descriptive word.

If we compare the word "negro" to "nazi", do we find ourselves in the same situation? Was "negro" also created and intended to be a demeaning / derogatory term from the very start or was it an objective / neutral descriptive word from the start that eventually became a demeaning / derogatory word?