Comments on: Negro

By: Charles Brister

Charles Brister — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:30:32 +0000

Negro is Spanish for Black. The important point is that out of respect we should capitalize when referring to specific groups of people. Negro, Black, Colored, African American, Hispanic, Jew, Asian etc. I contacted the L.A. Times after reading a sentence with the phrase “blacks and Korean American.
One more thing, lose the n-word, that’s a slave word.

By: J

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:01:21 +0000

Not quite sure, just seeing the one word title reminded me of this classic, with the same title by Nancy Cunard

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MIf25BbAQxUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Negro+cunard&source=bl&ots=bjXQ_OFF2k&sig=ThYgMP8amp4HgfqRrcDJjRGIDq8&hl=en&ei=tZdHTMbLM4P00gSwjMjEBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

By: mochasister

mochasister — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:05:47 +0000

The only time I use the term “Negro” is when I’m trying to be funny. I use it in a disparaging manner: “Negro please!” To me a Negro is like a generic Black if that makes sense. I also use it instead of that other special n-word; I HATE that n-word with a purple passion and can’t for the life of me understand why Blacks continue to use it. It’s weird because some Blacks can’t stand to be called African-American, but blithely call themselves and others that n-word.

By: Natasha W

Natasha W — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:21:16 +0000

Mel,

The term ‘negro’ is ugly. Since some whites insist on using ‘negro’ does this mean we can refer to whites as blanco?

I’m all for this! Negro, Blanco, Amarillo, o Otros. It should be on the Census:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_census_negro_issue_use_of_word_on_forms_raises_hackles_memories_of_jim_crow.html

By: Ó Dochartaigh

Ó Dochartaigh — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:31:37 +0000

To Mel

In anthropological terms we are classified: Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Australoid; Black, White, Asian, and Aborigine. Sadly the term Negro has been used to discriminate, but it is not any different then calling someone Caucasian. It is a shame that we can not stick to these terminologies without sounding discriminatory. I think no matter what people of African decent want to be called, racist people will find a way to use that word in a hateful way.

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:06:33 +0000

The term ‘negro’ is ugly. Since some whites insist on using ‘negro’ does this mean we can refer to whites as blanco?

No. Negro is ugly and people who use it, especially with a certain accent, often use it with gbdistaste in their mouth.

I am not African-American, because I hate that term too.

I am in Canada, where the pc (white mainstream) crowd are trying to push the term African-Canadian, despite the majority of blacks saying repeatedly (on censuses) they don’t care for it.

I am just black.

By: Dani Atkins

Dani Atkins — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:18:59 +0000

My name is Dani Atkins and I am one of 4 surviving children of Ronald Edward Atkins and Clancyna Marie Atkins. On January 26, 2008 my father was killed in a tragic car accident that took place only 2 minutes away from my home. My parents had been married for 30 years at the time of the accident without separation. As I have been assisting my mother with putting together various lawsuits and claims against several different persons, insurance companies, and even the Los Angeles Police Department regarding several acts of negligence and dishonor surrounding my fathers death, I have come across a disturbing piece of information that I, being a 24 year old African American person am appauled. My father having been born on April 9, 1955, has a birth certificate that identifies his color and race as being “NEGRO.” My grandmother, Eloise Marie Harrison having been born on April 4, 1933 has a birth certificate that identifies her color and race as being “NEGRO”. My mother, who is still alive, Clancyna Marie Atkins born on September 4, 1956 has a birth certificate that identifies her color and race as being “NEGRO” as well. And I am quite sure there are thousands if not milliions of other African American people dead or alive who have been identified on paper at birth as being “NEGRO” I am absolutely disgusted that the United States of America even in 2009 have not made an attempt to make right this defamation of character in administering all new birth certificates to those who have died as well as those still living to identify these HUMAN PEOPLE with dignity and respect. I am passionately committed to make my fathers name wholly reflect the honorable father, husband, and man that he was and the fact that his life was not even given an opportunity to start before he was branded on United States of America paper as being a “NEGRO” is a disgrace and a shame on America.

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS MESSAGE TO THE WHITE HOUSE BY SIGNING MY ONLINE PETITION at: http://www.gopetition.com/online/29117.html

If you have any questions e- mail me at: kingdom.servant.dani@gmail.com

Thank You,
Dani

By: abagond

abagond — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:13:54 +0000

The n-word! That is a whole other post! But thanks for the link (even if it seems like an ad).

By: thescoop

thescoop — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:14:15 +0000

Black America and the N-word: