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it's obvious from his profile that this member thrives on attention thru outrageousness.  we try not to censor (censure?) our members based on their personal taste taste or lack thereof (such as green pantyhose, which should never be allowed to be sold to men or women  )
the word 'niggerdly' must have been the archaic word-of-the-day on some esoteric website or one of those 'educational' desktop calendar pads. it's an old fashioned word, quite legit, and found in a lot of old literature (as those who recall English Lit 102 or still read a lot probably realize.  )
while the intent may have been to cause a ruckus (brouhaha, controversay, flap, fray, remonstrance, row, etc) thru the persons choice of adjectives for shock value or negative attention, and while hundreds of other words would have had a more favorable (less controversial) reaction, the word does not refer to anything 'racial', technically.
here's what dictionary.com says.
niggardly
–adjective 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter.
–adverb 3. in the manner of a niggard.
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Origin:
1520–30; niggard + -ly
Related forms:
niggardliness, noun
Synonyms:
1. penurious, miserly, mean, tight, avaricious, mercenary, illiberal, close. 2. poor
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved..
nig·gard (nig'?rd)
n. A stingy, grasping person; a miser.
adj. Stingy; miserly.
[Middle English nigard, perhaps from nig, stingy person, of Scandinavian origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved .
niggard
1366, nygart, of uncertain origin. The suffix suggests Fr. origin (cf. dastard), but the root word is probably related to O.N. hnøggr "stingy," from P.Gmc. *khnauwjaz (cf. Swed. njugg "close, careful," Ger. genau "precise, exact"), and to O.E. hneaw "stingy, niggardly," which did not survive in M.E.
"It was while giving a speech in Washington, to a very international audience, about the British theft of the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon. I described the attitude of the current British authorities as 'niggardly.' Nobody said anything, but I privately resolved—having felt the word hanging in the air a bit—to say 'parsimonious' from then on." [Christopher Hitchens, "The Pernicious Effects of Banning Words," Slate.com, Dec. 4, 2006]
'parsimonious', a much better choice for a word-of-the-day. 'cheap' works, too. 
(professor jamison would be happy with the lessons i learned back in his class, lol)
not sure, tho, whether you ladies should gamble on the 'fast orange' advice. maybe it works best if you're prone to beard stubble. 
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