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After more than 100 years, the U.S. Census Bureau will drop the term “Negro” from its race description and use the term black or African American. The term Negro was first used in the 1900 census, replacing the word “colored.”
The term “Negro” originated with the Portuguese and Spanish explorers who used the actual word for the color black in their language to describe Sub-Saharan African people. Although in the first census in 1790, the categories were: “free white,” “all other free persons” and “slaves.”
I’;m Black…
I like Negro much more than Afr-Amer. In fact I hate the term Afr-Amer. Black is my first choice, JB made it ok to be Black and feel proud about it. We can lose the N-word, Afr-Amer and Colored (like CP-time) and I think we as a community would fair better.
Ssshhh. You’re telling your age!