return of "colored"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/29/2012 11:17 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>In the early '90s, Arsenio Hall pointed out the problem of replacing
>"Colored People" with "African Americans" in the name of the group --
>you get the unfortunate acronym NAAAA.

Or, if you gloss that African Americans" are as "(human)" as anyone else --
NAAAAH.

Joel

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