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Lockport, NY police don't understand why some people might find "Negro " offensive.

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Gordon Shumway

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So..da negro.
JDSN said:
I think im gonna go ahead and agree with the people here who must surely be black saying that this isnt offensive to their race, they, along with Morgan Freeman are the speakers of black and anyone that disagree with them are wrong.
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Hilarious.
 
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andthebeatgoeson

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jediyoshi said:
What does that have to do with anything? Just to clarify, it's only racist in the context of the person saying it?
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No. But we shouldn't try and confuse an philanthropic organization founded in 1944 to fight racism and promote education with a police department still using the word. In 1944, there were not a lot of positive options to call black people. So, that's just an attempt to take the blame off the police department. There are a few reasons the article has nothing to do with the UNCF.
Scrooged said:
Actually I'm not. The word is literally 'black' in Spanish. It was used purely as a description of a type of people. Blacks in the US didn't find it offensive till the 60s and 70s.
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Haha, how do you even know?

And you said it was 'perfectly fine'. Then why don't we use it anymore?
 
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Scrooged

Totally wronger about Nintendo's business decisions.
EscoBlades said:
Facepalm.



You should have quit while you were ahead*

* you were never ahead
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DY_nasty said:
Scrooged

breh

Is there a possibility you could be wrong?
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skinnyrattler said:
No. But we shouldn't try and confuse an philanthropic organization founded in 1944 to fight racism and promote education with a police department still using the word. In 1944, there were not a lot of positive options to call black people. So, that's just an attempt to take the blame off the police department. There are a few reasons the article has nothing to do with the UNCF.

Haha, how do you even know?

And you said it was 'perfectly fine'. Then why don't we use it anymore?
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Geez. You guys are right. The word is now considered offensive so it's always been offensive since the beginning of time! Because that's how language works!

Also, I have not once defended the police department using the word. I was just responding to the person in the article that was saying the word originated with racist intentions.
 
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DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
Spare the BS. A lot of people were 'taken back' by the things that blacks 'suddenly' found offensive in 60s.

But by all means - lets just not even acknowledge what went on before then since you've made it clear that you're going to double down on what you know you don't know.
 
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RM8

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It sucks that a harmless word in Spanish came to be a racist slur :/ But that's language... an racism, I guess.
 
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MIMIC

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captmorgan said:
Wait so when I saw men in black in Mexico it was called (hombres de negro) I was supporting racists?
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I had to do some research on you to see if this was a troll post.

So yeah....nice troll post.

edit: actually, you're just racist and have been banned in the past for it, too.
 
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ArjanN

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It used to be a pretty 'neutral' term but, yeah, not really in 2014.

To be fair whatever the new politically correct term is will the pejorative term ten years later. That's how this cycle tends to go.
 
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Scrooged

Totally wronger about Nintendo's business decisions.
DY_nasty said:
Spare the BS. A lot of people were 'taken back' by the things that blacks 'suddenly' found offensive in 60s.

But by all means - lets just not even acknowledge what went on before then since you've made it clear that you're going to double down on what you know you don't know.
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You're just making assumptions and have no actual knowledge of the word. Seriously just 5 minutes of research.

"Negro" superseded "colored" as the most polite terminology, at a time when "black" was more offensive.[3] This usage was accepted as normal, even by people classified as Negroes, until the later Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s. One well-known example is the identification by Martin Luther King, Jr. of his own race as "Negro" in his famous 1963 speech I Have a Dream.
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Around 1442 the Portuguese first arrived in sub-Saharan Africa while trying to find a sea route to India. The term negro, literally meaning "black", was used by the Spanish and Portuguese as a simple description to refer to people. From the 18th century to the late 1960s, "negro" (later capitalized) was considered to be the proper English-language term for certain people of sub-Saharan African origin.

The word "Negro" fell out of favor by the early 1970s in the United States after the Civil Rights movement. However, older African Americans from the earlier period of American life (when "Negro" was widely considered to be acceptable) initially found the term "black" more offensive than "Negro." Evidence for the acceptability of "Negro" is in the continued use the word by historical African-American organizations and institutions such as the United Negro College Fund. In current English language usage, "Negro" is generally considered to be acceptable in a historical context, such as baseball's Negro Leagues of the early and mid-20th century, or in the name of older organizations, as in Negro spirituals, the United Negro College Fund or the Journal of Negro Education. The U.S. Census now uses the grouping "Black, African-American, or Negro." The term "Negro" is used in efforts to include older African Americans who more closely associate with the term.[12]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro
 
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DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
Scrooged said:
You're just making assumptions and have no actual knowledge of the word. Seriously just 5 minutes of research.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro
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wikipedia doesn't even count as a source for a high school paper but you're going to cling to that as if negro wasn't even used derogatorily in spanish too?

again. there's a possibility you might be wrong

i'm just saying. its there.

you can keep telling minorities when exactly they started to become offended by things though. i'm sure they don't know shit.
 
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Deleted member 47027

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Some of you here are just DYING to justify use of the word

Stop being racist shitlords
 
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Siegcram

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JDSN said:
No, you were supporting racists because you are a racist shitlord.
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SliceSabre

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I don't like being called Negro or colored because I find both of the words racist and so do many other black people.

When whites call us colored or Negro its just them using code for the n-word.
 
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Nesotenso

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In scientific parlance, are the words negroid, Caucasoid and mongoloid used? I know the words negro or mongoloid are still viewed negatively. What do forensic anthropologists use when identifying skeletal remains for example?
 
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Angelus Errare

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SliceSabre said:
I don't like being called Negro or colored because I find both of the words racist and so do many other black people.

When whites call us colored or Negro its just them using code for the n-word.
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Only straight white men can be the arbiters of what is considered racist or sexist.
 
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Slayven

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Nesotenso said:
In scientific parlance, are the words negroid, Caucasoid and mongoloid used? I know the words negro or mongoloid are still viewed negatively. What do forensic anthropologists use when identifying skeletal remains for example?
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I think they use sub Saharan
 
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Trey

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Scrooged said:
Geez. You guys are right. The word is now considered offensive so it's always been offensive since the beginning of time! Because that's how language works!

Also, I have not once defended the police department using the word. I was just responding to the person in the article that was saying the word originated with racist intentions.
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Well. It's always been considered offensive in the sense that very few terms white folks would use to refer to black folks were done hate free. Calling someone a negro or colored in the contexts they were in generally imparted some implicit form of condescension. It's just how society was set up - it was unavoidable.

Using the terms today in and of themselves doesn't necessarily mean a person is a racist. It definitely means those people are ignorant to current polite standards, and insensitive to blacks.

ArjanN said:
It used to be a pretty 'neutral' term but, yeah, not really in 2014.

To be fair whatever the new politically correct term is will the pejorative term ten years later. That's how this cycle tends to go.
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African American has been generally acceptable since the 70s. Blacks since the 80s or so.

captmorgan said:
Wait so when I saw men in black in Mexico it was called (hombres de negro) I was supporting racists?
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You're weren't. And you're not being cute now.
 
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Nesotenso

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Slayven said:
I think they use sub Saharan
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yeah you could be right.

a lot of it is tied to racial history. Nobody is going to frown when you are identifying someone as Caucasian or Caucasoid. Of course brown folks would be identified as caucasian skeletally but the supreme court doesn't think the term applies to them.
 
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Wthermans

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Darklord said:
This will probably sound ignorant but "negro" is offensive? I honestly didn't think that was. Not that I exactly run into that word...like ever. Doesn't it just mean black in Spanish? It does sound weird if it's under "complexion" though.
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Outdated but not offensive IMO. I'm white and know nothing jon snow so no one cares what I think.

SliceSabre said:
I don't like being called Negro or colored because I find both of the words racist and so do many other black people.

When whites call us colored or Negro its just them using code for the n-word.
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What is your personal preference?
 
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Enzom21

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JDSN said:
hahha wikipedia.



No, you were supporting racists because you are a racist shitlord.
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I love when racist shitbirds get called out, dude will never return to the thread though.

Wthermans said:
Outdated but not offensive IMO. I'm white and know nothing jon snow so no one cares what I think.
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It is most certainly offensive. I don't want to be called negro and I am pretty sure no other black person wants to be called negro either. Call a black person a negro and you will find out how offensive it is. The bolded is why probably why you don't find it offensive.
 
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Wthermans

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Enzom21 said:
I love when racist shitbirds get called out, dude will never return to the thread though.



It is most certainly offensive. I don't want to be called negro and I am pretty sure no other black person wants to be called negro either. Call a black person a negro and you will find out how offensive it is. The bolded is why probably why you don't find it offensive.
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While I certainly understand your viewpoint, it's hard for some to believe that when supporting organizations and higher education facilities use that exact vernacular. Also, what is your personal preference? I note you use black, what about African American? What about "brother"?

All of those terms have garnered offense from members/communities. The fact of the matter is that race describes who we are aesthetically but doesn't change who we are....human beings.
 
shadow_shogun

shadow_shogun

Member
I always thought calling a black person Negro was the same as calling a white person Caucasian? I've always referred to myself as a Negro.
 
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