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 :No.  Few people would be surprised that Wikipedia is not to be treated as an authority.  A case in point. I can log on to Wikipedia any day of the week and click on any number of articles pertaining to my own people and read things like, ""The only good nigger is a dead nigger,"" ""All niggers should be slaves,"" or, ""Nigger is any black person who can't speak English nor pay the electric bill and cares more about having expensive clothing than the necesities of life.""  My first encounter with Wikipedia which caused me to become involved in this project was some ridiculous contention that the slaves used to call their white, rapist fathers ""motherfucker"" instead of ""daddy.""  Anyone who treats any open-content website like Wikipedia as an authoritative source, which anyone can edit at any time and say anything ought to have his or head examined. 

 :You're merely being obtuse.  Your characterization of ""miscegenation"" as pejorative doesn't hold water.  Virtually any dictionary will include, along with a proper definition, the informaton that ""nigger"" is pejorative.  The same cannot be said of miscegenation, which essentially means ""race mixing.""  Why?  Because it isn't inherently pejorative.  You have absolutely nothing to lend credence to your claims. 

 :By way of illiustration, this from an online article on the Houghton-Mifflin website, ""Reader's Companion to Women's History:  Miscegenation"": 

 :""The word 'miscegenation' was invented during the 1864 presidential campaign (from the Latin miscere, ""to mix,"" and genus, race) when Democrats claimed that Lincoln's Republican Party advocated sex and marriage across the color line. Like 'mulatto,' probably derived from the concept of mules and hybridity, 'miscegenation' was pejorative in its historical context.' 

 :As I said, racists have used the word.   

 :However, at the end of the article, Houghton-Mifflin uses the word outside the historical context of racism to me, essentially ""people of different races screwing and producing offspring"" in a neutral fashion: 

 :""The ongoing legacies of the legal and social history of miscegenation are apparent in issues ranging from the influence of racist ideology in sex crimes or alleged sex crimes, to ambivalence or antagonism on the part of both white and Black communities toward marriages and relationships across the color line."" 

 :nother online article in ""Christianity Today"" is titled ""Books & Culture Corner: In Praise of Miscegenation.  Racial categories don't mean what they used to. Hallelujah.""  And at slate.com:  ""Miscegenation  an official trend: The Atlanta Journal Constitution has a seemingly important taboo-busting story on the increase in black women dating white men. The evidence of this trend is not only anecdotal  AJC's John Blake says."" 

 :Simply because you and others may be unfamiliar with the use of the word outside of its racist context does not mean it is not used frequently and without negative connotations by others.  Time for a reality check. Drop it.   "