The Adoption of “Human Being” Into the English Vocabulary

There is a discrepancy as to the intended purpose of the term human being. Its subjected usage, too, is thought to instill a state of hatred and inferiority on the minds of Africans and Blacks. Today human being (1795) is used to describe a man, woman, or child of the primate species Homo sapiens. Apparently, the term man (ME. Brit. origin), was used describe males of a primate species, not human beings. Hominid or Hominidae (ca. 1889) which means Homo sapiens (meaning wise or knowing man) was also used in stead of human being in many parts of the world long before the term attained its classification and use among Whites. It is also believed that human is Latin for Hominidae and humanus, deriving its meaning from homo, which means primate, and from man meaning adult male; hence, deriving at the term human (ME. Brit. origin: humain) (Wikipedia, 2008; Oxford University Press, 2008). Primate simply means a type or variation of a male. Hominid – a member of a family of primates and their fossil ancestors – was also used by Africans to describe human races. It is used to describe the genus species Homo erectus, a species one evolution below the development of a modern man (Wikipedia, 2008).

The term Human has two additives hu, hyu or hue and man. Lets consider hue (ME. Hewe. Bef. Old E. 12c.) first; it refers to a color variation or shade. It is also an Old English way of acknowledging and recognizing men from all political disciplines commonly known as the men of all political hues. Furthermore, it is inferred that Africans, after learning the English language, referred to Whites not as human but as hue-man. The term man has implications of origins from a character in Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, as cited in the Oxford University Press, an online media dictionary. Its definition means a male member of a workforce or work-team. Old Englishmen use to refer to a common male laborer as a man or man Friday too. The actual term human is believed to have developed much later, referring to a fair or light-skinned race of people much like the new interpretations of the term White.

Hue-man was seen as a sarcasm, a cliche used to discharged anger from Africans and Blacks. It was a contemptuous, hackneyed, dramatized, sarcastic, and rebellious dissatisfaction meant to describe a variant or variation of a man, a passive-aggressive means of expressing contempt for the White slave master. This contempt of Old English adage, this cliche, was a way of venting anger because of the barbarous and inhumane way in which Euro-Americans use to treat Blacks. Human was expressed in contempt using thoughts like this: Whenever Africans and Blacks saw the White man coming they knew that Whites were up to no good, so they soon marked White behavior as troublesome. Blacks used to acknowledge the presence of Whites by saying (and this is the cliche) “Uh oh, here comes Hue-man again. You’d better hid your children and put on your chastity belts, ol’ massa a cumin’.” This form of venting was critical in that it was the only safe way of fighting back against the oppressions of slavery. Europeans and Euro-Americans who refer to themselves as Whites or White men – relating to an almost mystical natured adult male having a unique and healthy understanding of life – forced Blacks to call the European adult male White man. This was the only way to relieve themselves of stress from the terrible injustices of slavery. The term man later gained its usage in describing all Caucasian adult males.