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Admin...Don't be so quick to judge the gentleman. It could be a generational thing and there was a point in time where using the word negro to describe a black person was the "nice" way to refer to them and they would have appreciated it. Do you want to know when that changed? It changed when the black power movements of the 60's started to rise. It really was not viewed as an insult until then. My grandmother who didn't have a mean spirited or prejudiced bone in her body use to do something similiar when she wanted to draw attention to a discussion involving a black person. She would call them "darkies". It wasn't out of disrespect, it was what she was programmed to call them from her youth. I almost hyperventilated the first time I heard her do this but I knew she meant no disrespect. And, because she was raised in a time when the *worst* word was used on a regular basis I know that it was not taught to her out of prejudice or bias.We all have our little descriptive phrases we use that have been drilled into us over the years. I am not saying that your Professor using that word would not have caused me to take notice of it but it is important to consider intent behind such words.Pssst... USMC.. it is known as the United Negro College Fund. Easy mistake to make sir.Another one is the NAACP. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Call a black person "colored" today. Watch what happens.
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Don't be so quick to judge the gentleman. It could be a generational thing and there was a point in time where using the word negro to describe a black person was the "nice" way to refer to them and they would have appreciated it. Do you want to know when that changed? It changed when the black power movements of the 60's started to rise. It really was not viewed as an insult until then.
My grandmother who didn't have a mean spirited or prejudiced bone in her body use to do something similiar when she wanted to draw attention to a discussion involving a black person. She would call them "darkies". It wasn't out of disrespect, it was what she was programmed to call them from her youth. I almost hyperventilated the first time I heard her do this but I knew she meant no disrespect. And, because she was raised in a time when the *worst* word was used on a regular basis I know that it was not taught to her out of prejudice or bias.
We all have our little descriptive phrases we use that have been drilled into us over the years.
I am not saying that your Professor using that word would not have caused me to take notice of it but it is important to consider intent behind such words.
Pssst... USMC.. it is known as the United Negro College Fund. Easy mistake to make sir.
Another one is the NAACP. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Call a black person "colored" today. Watch what happens.
