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

[Steve Kl.]

To echo Salikoko, why would we turn to Swahili, or any other African
language, for that language's word for *black*?

That would be like turning to French, Finnish, or Czech to come up with the
English word for *white.*
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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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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