Where did the term "*****" come from?

This description simply means "black" in Spanish. It would be offensive to use the term currently in the presence of my fellow citizens. History dictates that it was a common term in the not so distant past. The United "*****" College Fund is still alive and well. South America accounts for at least 90% of the African slave trade during the era that is primarily depicted as a "White" North American atrocity. a href="http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm" rel="nofollow"http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/history…/a Was it the integration of the Spanish word "*****" to simply mean the color black?