Latest on "negro"

[Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock]

I thought it was just that as we become accustomed to words, they become more objectifying? So, we change the approved terminology from time to time in an effort to keep the meaning clean?
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Kate

On Apr 26, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Nobody explained why "the 'Negro' word" was bad
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> In like manner, nobody has explained why "African-American" is "good" and
> not simply ridiculous.
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> I've decided to go with what's on my birth certificate: "colored," with
> "black" reserved for formal occasions, such as the Census. Like, why not?
> I'm even considering punting BE for n[egro]d[ialect], as accurate a
> denomination as any other.
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