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Originally Posted by baddog
This could take forever. I was just told the other day that Negro was no longer acceptable. Can we get this decision in writing please?
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If negro is an acceptable term today then so is refering to asians as "chinamen" and italians as "WOPs".
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Negro is a term referring to people of Black African ancestry. Prior to the shift in the lexicon of American and worldwide classification of race and ethnicity in the late 1960s, the appellation was accepted as a normal neutral formal term both by those of African descent as well as non-African blacks. Now it is often considered an ethnic slur[1][2][3] although the term is still used in some contexts for historical reasons such as in the name of the United Negro College Fund[4].
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