[78-L] One person's opinions...?!^

[Julian Vein]

Tom wrote:
> Why is it that some people have a problem referring to people of color the way they would like to be referred to?
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> The word "negro" was the correct word choice for decades, until the end of the civil rights era in the 1960's. So that word -- the word "negro" -- had been correct for, oh I dunno, 350 years or so. At about that time, most African Americans wanted to be called "black" instead. That lasted for a few decades. Now most African Americans prefer to be referred to as, well, African Americans.
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> Listen to how role models within that community refer to themselves -- people like President Obama and Oprah Winfrey, for instance, refer to themselves as African American.
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> We're talking once-in-a-generation changes in word choice here.
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> So why is that so problematic for some people to understand?
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I seem to recall that there have been several name changes over the decades:

Coloured people.
People of colour.
Negro.
Black.
African American.

These are names that have been used by those people themselves or, more 
probably, their self-appointed leaders (usually people who wish to climb 
to power on the backs of discontented--in this case--black workers). Is 
African American the final word?

      Julian Vein