[poll] 'Negro' as an option on a form

[bradley]

This reminds me how sometimes popular ignorance of a word (pronunciation or usage) eventually supersedes proper usage, enough for formal entrance into the lexicon.

Yeah "negro" is Spanish for black. Perhaps a teacher should be embarrassed for not knowing this? I guess soon the term black will become offensive, as the color is closer to brown or cafe.

 

[bradley]

Meanwhile Asian Americans don't waste much energy over trivial matters; they are too busy integrating and getting ahead at a record pace.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I feel self-conscious about saying I'm White even though I am white. I do not think it has no bearing on who I am. Asking is more offensive to me than which category I am supposed to fit in.

 

[Doppel]

I'm glad this is a national story. It is probably the most egregious offense to mankind in at least a decade. I bet the person who crossed it out feels like a modern day Rosa Parks. She is truly a principled champion of decency.

 

[boomerang]

I'm glad this is a national story. It is probably the most egregious offense to mankind in at least a decade. I bet the person who crossed it out feels like a modern day Rosa Parks. She is truly a principled champion of decency.

LOL! I almost sprayed my laptop with coffee.

 

[boomerang]

I feel self-conscious about saying I'm White even though I am white.

Who taught you to feel that way? You were taught that, you weren't born feeling that way. Throw it off. Don't carry that around. Don't succumb to the brainwashing.

 

[Williz]

Where are all the super offended Black Spanish speakers? Nowhere? That's what I thought. It's just someone complaining for complainings sake.

 

[werepossum]

Not offensive.

If memory serves, the word "negro" was included in the 2010 census because in a prior year, the word had been omitted, and a significant number of black people had then written in "negro" to describe their ethnicity. For at least some black people, then, this is their term of choice. I'm sure it was included in this jury questionnaire for the same reason. In any case it is not and never has been a racial slur, and I think it's silly for anyone to be offended by it.

I don't want to be inconsiderate, and I will call people whatever they want to be called. I find it bizarre, though, that African Americans, in particular, have gone through so many iterations of the politically correct term for their ethnicity, even during my lifetime, and how the outmoded terms then become "offensive."

This, exactly. If one believes that "colored people" is offensive but "people of color" is correct, one is either an idiot or assuming that there are magic words which will confer respect.

 

[jhu]

In my line of work we label people as IM or DM (increased melanocyte/decreased melanocyte).

 

[alkemyst]

This, exactly. If one believes that "colored people" is offensive but "people of color" is correct, one is either an idiot or assuming that there are magic words which will confer respect.

You are ignorant and yes words can confer respect or be derogatory in nature.

"Colored People" stems from segregation: https://www.google.com/search?q=col...MsQTr4oCQDg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1115

People of Color is a phrase to describe more than just black/african american folks.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Did it suddenly become 1964 in here?


Who had the incredibly bad judgement to use that term?

As a black person, she has every right to be offended.

Jesus wept!

I guess NAACP and Negro College fund must be offensive as well.

 

[bradley]

While one group is wasting their time with nonsense....

Pew Research: The Rise of Asian Americans
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-rise-of-asian-americans/