It's official: it's offensive.

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A routine check of earth-shaking events reveals the following:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/us-census-bureau-drops-negro-surveys/story?id=18591761


Guess I'll have to write in - or should that be, "write-in? - "Negro"
in the OTHER space, being an older Southerner. Well, an older Texan.

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