A message from jack
The meaning of the song “the word nigger__conservatives is where it comes from” is literal.  It’s a recounting of the history of the coming of the black man to america.

The term nigger is the slurring of the word negro, which is a designation of a classification of human being. The slave traders who went to africa to buy the slaves used the word to describe their cargo. Later, after the slaves went to the auction block the term was used to describe what was being sold. Finally, after the slaves were purchased and taken to the plantations to labor in the fields, the overseers used the term to describe what they were overseeing.

In every step along the way it is a business process. Hard-eyed, conservative business types saw and reaped profits from the slave trade. The cotton and rice and tobacco plantation owners used slave labor to make their businesses run effectively.

In a very real sense slavery was a conservative invention, as were the jim crow laws, and the concept of separate but equal. It is no overstatement to say that the word nigger is a conservative invention.

Finally, dylan thompson brought us this song months before any of the current uproar involving the rutgers basketball team. Frankly, his treatment of the subject of race in america lands far more closely to the truth than don imus and his sledge-hammer. Dylan thompson uses a very sharp arrow.