McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

I dissagree.  I think it's a good idea to know what others think is pejorative so you don't call them that out of ignorance.  News to me is that black folk think "Negro" is pejorative.  I'll stay away from that.  It's gonna be "black black black" from now on so everybody is happy.  But somewhere out there in the evolution of words I think a better term will pop up.  What's Swahili for black person.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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>> My only point on the word "Negro" is that I personally don't think of
>> it as a pejorative term any more than Causcasian for whites.
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> But since you aren't black, whether or not you find it pejorative is of
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