Sooooooo..... How did the term "nigger-rig" come about..

[Frank Metts]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

here's mine
started out as jimmy-rig
then, a racist white dude observed a black dude jimmy-rigging something
the real question, is why is it not called Jamal-rigging?

On the real the term was jury-rig then it morphed to jerry-rig because they sound the same and people don't know what a jury is .. then it kind if took a insert common white name that starts with a J here - rig ... Then the infamous niggeri-rig


But it never meant anything bad, the term to MacGyver something means the same thing, use what you have and make it work, it's a compliment