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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

There is a generational preference, I think.

SJC wrote:
> 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
> >  
> >   
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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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