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Friday, February 02, 2007

Where Did The Word "Picnic" Come From ?



It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for "pick a nigger" to lynch. They would lynch a Black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend in this country, and it was all across the county.

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  1. Anonymous3:56 PM

    i cannot see why black people do not know what word came from in usa,,,,,,,

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    1. Anonymous4:08 PM

      Because no one teaches the people what means some do some don't

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  2. Until recently I didn't know.

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  3. actually, it seems your info is wrong. I am black and too thought that the word was born during the slave era, but it is actually a french saying that means an outdoor fest or eating outdoors. Do a lil research to see what else you find.

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  4. Anonymous7:43 PM

    @fabulustblogger...you're exactly right about its French origin....the other crap is an urban legend....Come on, people....

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  5. It came from pic a nigga like he said, it might the word might have been french but some whites stole it like they did everything back then cause it fit, so you do more research. stay real to yourself.

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    1. Anonymous2:08 PM

      I agree.

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    2. Anonymous12:27 PM

      They did because they thought by eating the black people they would get melanin into their bloodstream white people dnt have melanin their human mutated albinos....

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    3. Anonymous2:39 AM

      Please read the book The Making pa a Slave by Willie lynch.......

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      The Making of a slave by Willie Lynch

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  6. Anonymous8:20 PM

    I am 53 years young and u r wrong the word does mean to pick a nigger and lynch. The elders in my family didn"t lie

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    1. Anonymous12:29 PM

      Read the second message above u i assume ur white to go do your research

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    2. ad x.8:57 AM

      That's the truth the word did come from that wake up people please

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  7. Anonymous10:35 AM

    fabulusblogger b 4 you correct someone, do more research u'r self. Try by reading African American History as told by Black American Historians. Not those who have to cover up what they have done though out American History.

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  8. Anonymous9:10 AM

    The first usage of the word is traced to the 1692 edition of Tony Willis, Origines de la Langue Française, which mentions pique-nique as being of recent origin; it marks the first appearance of the word in print. The term was used to describe a group of people dining in a restaurant who brought their own wine. For long a picnic retained the connotation of a meal to which everyone contributed something. Whether picnic is actually based on the verb piquer which means 'pick' or 'peck' with the rhyming nique meaning "thing of little importance" is doubted; the Oxford English Dictionary says it is of unknown provenance. The word predates lynching in the United States; claims that it is derived from a shortening of 'pick a nigger' are not true.[2]

    The word picnic first appeared in English in a letter of the Gallicized Lord Chesterfield in 1748 (OED), who associates it with card-playing, drinking and conversation, and may have entered the English language from this French word.[3] The practice of an elegant meal eaten out-of-doors, rather than a harvester worker's dinner in the harvest field, was connected with respite from hunting from the Middle Ages; the excuse for the pleasurable outing of 1723 in Lemoyne's painting (illustration, left) is still offered in the context of a hunt.

    RESEACRCH... DONT BE IGNORANT. I may be white i may be black... DOESNT MATTER.

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    1. Ok, lets say ur right about it all then the word fits perfectly!!! "little importance" (black people) "feast outside" (celebrating after killing one) sound like its a perfect match! So yes, to me thats where it came from!

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    2. Anonymous8:15 AM

      Even if the original word was originated in France do you not remember that France played an intricate part in the Slave Trade.

      French traders were heavily involved in the slave trade. From 1721-30, French ships took 85,000 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas and the Caribbean. In the 1730s, they carried more than 100,000. Altogether, about 1,250,000 enslaved Africans were taken by French ships. Even after France abolished the trade, 500 French ships continued slave trading illegally between 1818 and 1831.


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    3. There are many words with different meanings do more research have you heard the saying a pic is worth a thousand words? I have and seeing ppl picked to b hung while ppl ate in picnic style says it all it don't take a rocket science to know what's going on let alone how the term came about it makes sense when u look at the pic n say the word its a match if your white your right it doesn't matter to you cause it didn't happen to your ancestors

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  9. Anonymous11:00 AM

    American Whites have always played with the english language, especially when dealing with Black Americans. For all of you Uncle Tom who have been breast fed your knowledge of self by your masters, this word came from France. As for myself, this term was made famous in this country during a horrible era...one of the biggest crimes in world history. Most people treat it as taboo to speak of yet other nationalities are always remembering their history, both good-and-painful. Why are we the only people attempting to be other than ourselves to be liked/accepted/employed/etc?

    Where does the theory of the treatment of Native Americans, African Americans, Haitians, Cubans, South Africans, Native Austrailians, Indians, etc stem from. Try answering that!!

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  10. How about this, the question was "where did the term COME from". Either way, if the timeline is correct then obviously it was in use by the french regarding eating out. Then it appears that the word found new meaning by those that participated in organized death hunts of US.

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    1. Anonymous2:29 PM

      L O L rotfcthu. I'm spechless with a mouthful to say lol enough said!!!

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    2. Anonymous12:37 AM

      Obviously you are still enslaved if you think it's a heaven & Jesus is coming to save you. Jesus is a fictional character made up by the Archdiocese. Research your history & please don't belief that the Bible is saving life's for Blacks. Hotep

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    3. Once it's been said that's it wake up ppl I know y'all know words with multiple meanings it's all in how you use it want to make this word positive try giving it a new name cause as a black person it's offensive just like being called a porch monkey it's a lot of ppl who think it's OK to say that word so if we let this word b positive we ignoring the pain n history behind it and that's just lies just like they did back then to cover their asses Black's didn't have a voice now we do sum choose to b dumb but for those like me black lives matter

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  11. Anonymous10:48 AM

    thankyou tbone !

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  12. Anonymous8:26 PM

    Of course it has to be something negative about black people.

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  13. Anonymous12:20 PM

    Yeahh. Ignorant People Always Have Somethin To Say About Blacks. Ech. Makes Me Freakin Sick that is not necessary.

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  14. the question is where it originated from, not where it was used for the most.

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  15. Anonymous10:42 PM

    For real? So what about http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp

    or

    http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/jan04.htm

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    http://www.blackvoicenews.com/more-sections/8-commentary/41888-an-urban-legend-that-binds-us-the-word-picnic-.html

    Just curious where your info came from.

    Let's not spread hatred.

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    1. Anonymous4:20 PM

      You say "Let's not spread hatred", but the COMMISSION of that hatred was perpetrated against Black people by racist whites! You seem to be missing the point of this thread: TODAY'S use of the woord and our responsibility to ourselves and future genrations.

      Whether the word originated in France or not, whether racist whites adapted it to describe their heinous, inhumane crimes during the 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries, the FACT is that IT HAPPENED, and we know it! The "hatred" is what white people did to us, NOT whether we agree on the origin of a word that now describes that travesty.

      WE KNOW that white people brutally murdered Black people for no reason whatsoever other than their unwarranted hatred of us by way of forcible hanging (lynching), and that they often gathered in droves to witness these lynchings, oftenbringing their children to witness/experience, men would bring their dates, and some municipalities would even shut the county buildings down, women would prepare meals for their families, and people (often the Klan, but non-Klan whites participated in these practices as well) would prepare a "feast" for the "outdoors", then "barbeque" a Black person; hence, utilizing all the definitions you cite as the word's origin (including the one meaning "of little impoortance" citied by someone else above.

      As well, WHY should we be expected to believe/accept YOUR so-called "proof" as opposed to believing/accepting our own? Is it because white people have chosen to "dispel" this so-called "urban legend"? Heck, it's white people who have purposely and collectively spread myths, lies, and falsehoods through their teachings of inaccurate "history" for years, hiding the true nature of their barbarism and always presenting themselves as the better and hence deserving conquerer/winner. It's time we as Black people begin thinking for ourselves, studying and researching OURSTORY (as opposed to "history"), and stop needing a white person to sanction, advocate, and co-sign everything we see, think, believe, or accept as true. In other words: Let's THINK FOR OURSELVES!!! REGARDLESS to whether the word originated in the 1600s in France or last week in Compton, the FACT is, IT HAPPENED. Let's not continue to help whites hide that fact.

      If there is ANY ARGUMENT, DISAGREEMENT, OR DENIAL WHATSOEVER that these government sanctioned crimes agaisnt humanity have occured (and still occur today by way of police killings ahgainst innocent and unarmed Black men), the EVIDENCE IS HERE: http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

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    2. Anonymous12:14 AM

      WELL SAID!!

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    3. Anonymous2:46 PM

      Amen. Know them that labor among you. I don't hate anyone. It's not hate! It's truth revealed!!! I am in my early 40 and i had no knowledge until very recently what our ancestor went through to afford us the access we have now to public transportation to education to just freedom ect. I never considered it because I was never taught about it. It means so much to me now. I teach it to my children. We come from hardworking determined find away people we are Not what they classify us to be. Thank You So Much! Want to be one of the ones that make your sacrifice worth it!!!

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    4. And thats that!..period

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    5. Yessss!!!!! preach God said speak da truth n it shall b known #god is trying to tell you something #listen

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  16. Anonymous11:35 PM

    You know?

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    1. Anonymous11:42 PM

      Now you know...and knowing brings understanding.. I have learn to forgive but to forget, how can I? You do understand don't you?

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  17. Anonymous8:26 PM

    When I was a child in the '50s we would visit my grandfather's farm in Alabama. I vividly recall sitting on the porch on hot evenings, listening to stories told by people who were old even then, and were former slaves from the 1800s. They would tell of postings on bulletin boards in town, that alerted Whites that they would have a "Lynching, then a Picnic of a nigga" on the weekends.....Then some brainiac put it together and transposed the phrase, "Pic-a-nig". All across "Lynching states" in the south, that phrase became standard among racists and illiterate Whites. They stopped saying "Lynchin and a Picnic", and simply posted fliers saying, "We gonna have a Pic-a-Nig.".......People knew what they meant............Regardless of the word "picnic's" origin, in the South it took on a different association than what the French meant it to be.

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      Best explanation so far. Makes sense now.

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      How blessed you are to have had those talks! Do you write? I bet you could put together a cool book based on their stories!

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  18. Anonymous7:41 PM

    The word seem to have originated in France.....but took on a whole new meaning with the Southerners of America. It was very disturbing then to know how another human being can torture anyone else because of hatred. But, we all need to forgive to be able to move forward. There are a lot of other crimes that we need to focus on.....especially when it comes to our children. The violence needs to STOP!!!!!

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    1. Anonymous2:54 PM

      Question: What did we do to make them hate us?
      Usually when the word hate is used it's because of some horrible unthinkable act on someone's behalf.
      What did we do to insue such hatred

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  19. Anonymous12:40 PM

    The word does mean "Pick a Nigger". I am a black man and in some reading I recently did, thats where the word comes from. It came from Europe.

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  20. Anonymous10:37 AM

    My brethan, u may very well be coexisting with these old racist black....... if u don't tame your tongue (James4:5-12). There certainly isn't profanity in heaven.

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  21. Amen lets be cool and love all because jesus loves us enough to die for all sin he was also brutally murdered think about it

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      the truth will be revealed in the book of life on judgement day before heading home, wherever that may be, and all men will have to get an account for his actions. there will be no sugar coating ,white washing or denial.

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  65. Anonymous2:06 PM

    When i think of Negro Mountain located in Cumberland MD,....and i studied the origin of the words Negro Mountain and discovered that it was actually once called "Nigger Mountain" but put short for negro because of the transformation from slavery to independence! So it doesnt surprise me to find out what "picnic" means!! The Wikipedia says french but the Wikipedia wont give u the true meanings of such things!! sometimes u gotta dig deeper!!

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  66. Anonymous10:10 PM

    I just heard from Miss Ali on Dr. Drew, that the word "picnic" came from slavery times in the 20's & 30', therefore, I will never use that word again.








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  67. I had no idea this post generated this much traffic/ I would like to hace addressed some of the commenrs.

    I don't dispute the worsd was first used in France, but not for the purpose of this post. I didn't think so many Frenchmen were reading this blog

    Let me put it this way. What do you think it meant to a black man in the South in the Jim Crow days?

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  68. Anonymous7:42 PM

    Can be a French word.
    But the Affair[PicNic] and the Festivity around it while Picking a nagger was not common in France I guess.

    So why trying to discard Cultural meaning of PicNic during certain era's?

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