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And, at that, I've lived long enough to watch that change over time.

A couple of days ago there was on NPR an interview with an Atlanta 
resident, I believe it was, who is something like 106 years old.  She is 
black, by reporter's statement, but I noticed that when she herself 
spoke she was talking about "the negro people". 

When I first went to Fort Wayne where there is (well, was, haven't been 
there for a long time) high population of blacks, I simply asked (shows 
you what a hick I was, but midwesterners tend to be direct) a fellow 
student, black,  how she preferred to be referred to regarding her skin 
color and was told "We like to be called negro, because that's what we 
are.".  That would have been about 1961.   She and I are still good friends.

Times change faster than I do a lot of the time.

SusanJane, in Maine

DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:
> Absolutely. That is primarily how they refer to themselves, I hear it 
> every single day. 
>  
> Drew
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And, at that, things change over time.

A couple of days ago there was on NPR an interview with an Atlanta 
resident, I believe it was, who is something like 106 years old.  She is 
black, by reporter's statement, but I noticed that when she herself 
spoke she was talking about "the negro people".  I did not hear her 
refer once to a "black" population.

When I first went to Fort Wayne where there is (well, was, haven't been 
there for a long time) high population of blacks, I simply asked (shows 
you what a hick I was, but midwesterners tend to be direct) a fellow 
student, black,  how she preferred to be referred to regarding her skin 
color and was told "We like to be called negro, because that's what we 
are.".  That would have been about 1961.   She and I are still good friends.

Times change faster than I do a lot of the time.

SusanJane, in Maine
> In a message dated 11/6/2008 2:03:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:
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> I'm not  sure I got what this is in response to, but thanks for posting 
> it.   Apparently there are some people who need to see that blacks call  
> themselves black people and that it is not a euphemism or a  hate-phrase.
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