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Old 11-06-2014, 05:38 PM  
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Originally Posted by makko2 View Post
You watch too much FOX News. 'Negro' may not be overly offensive to many English speaking Blacks but to most it is somewhat offensive to touchy - even if they know the user must likely be 80 years or older. I'm not sure who you think you are to leap out with the statement it is "not offensive in any way" lol..... speak for yourself.
Point is that if I say "white" is offensive it does not make it offensive. Some tool "invented" that "negro" was offensive and some sheep followed. Does not mean it is true.

Of course it can be used in an offensive way, just as any word, but it is not offensive term out of itself.
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