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Columbia Student Offended by Professor Who Said Negro Was Correct Term in the '60s
Reason ^ | April 6, 2018 | Robby Soave

Posted on 04/07/2018 5:16:32 AM PDT by C19fan

A Columbia University student was angry with her sociology professor for saying it was appropriate to use the term negro when referring to people of color while discussing the 1960s. She wrote to the professor, explaining to him that negro was an offensive and outdated term, but he failed to adjust his vocabulary. "I didn't pay attention in class after that," the student, Maria Martinez, told The Columbia Daily Spectator.

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To: super7man

Or the little black licorice candies that were referred to as n***er babies


41 posted on 04/07/2018 6:03:08 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: HotHunt

Congrats on your 45 years!

My wife and I celebrated 45 years in February.


42 posted on 04/07/2018 6:04:29 AM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: C19fan

That is actually a misleading headline.

The prof was arguing that the term should be used when discussing blacks of the era because it wasn’t considered offensive then.

I’m not for the constant movement on what is considered offensive generally (e.g., “idiot”, “retarded”), but given that that is how the language evolves and is interpreted by many, using historically accepted terms to discuss classes of people in that historical time is to me suspect.


43 posted on 04/07/2018 6:06:43 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: C19fan

Just one more example of the close mindedness of the Left.


44 posted on 04/07/2018 6:07:28 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: HotHunt

Also, the “N” word was in common use, although polite folks (most folks that is) never used that term around blacks.


45 posted on 04/07/2018 6:07:47 AM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: C19fan

So black lab is out? Should it be labs of color? Is it racist to distinguish between a black lab and a yellow lab? And what about a chocolate lab? Microaggression?


46 posted on 04/07/2018 6:09:12 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: rovenstinez

“The National Association of COLORED People “..........

I have often pondered the name of that association and why they chose the word “colored” people. They never mention which color? When we were young, as little children we were taught the names of MANY colors. Wish the fools would be more specific. I can see tan, red, yellow, green and yes, black. So pick one.


47 posted on 04/07/2018 6:09:29 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: C19fan

“King used the word “Negro” fifteen times in the speech; today the term is finally being retired from the US Census as a racial category.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/misremembering-i-have-dream/


48 posted on 04/07/2018 6:11:16 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: C19fan

I’ve never used the word. Back in the mid-60’s my mother explained to her elderly aunt who had been born in the Victorian era that the N word wasn’t acceptable. Her aunt was incredulous and innocently asked if she should call them a term (starting with dark) instead. Nooooooo!


49 posted on 04/07/2018 6:15:50 AM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: C19fan

Let’s not forget the term ‘colored’ was preferred for many years. NAACP.


50 posted on 04/07/2018 6:24:20 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republiverycans took their slaves away.)
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To: rovenstinez
Sometimes people are just easily offended...

And some just pretend to be, for street cred and to be obnoxious.

51 posted on 04/07/2018 6:25:56 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: C19fan

Negro is what the Kenyan father would be identified as on a legitimate birth certificate for the Kenyanesian Usurper.


52 posted on 04/07/2018 6:26:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jeffc

53 posted on 04/07/2018 6:38:17 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: HotHunt
There was no such thing as politically correct speech in the her day growing up in the Deep South.

My grandfather used the same term. His grandparents apparently had no alternative term, and they apparently brought it along in the covered wagon when they emigrated from western New York to Iowa in the 1850s. Grandpa's manner of speech was a strange thing, hard for me to quantify... it was a rural, middle-america hayseed thing with a curious sort of "Missouri" overlay, and some oddities from who knows where. I have never heard it pronounced exactly the same way by anyone in real life or film, and I don't think even I could do a fair imitation.

Anyway, along with a number of other admirable traits, he was remarkably free from some prevailing prejudices, but he had no "polite" terms for a great number of things. "That word" was a word like any other he had learned, not much different to him than referring to one car as a Studebaker and another as a Buick. As you mentioned, politically correct speech was nonexistent at that time and place.

54 posted on 04/07/2018 6:38:31 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: John W

Young people today don’t know the difference between male and female.The English language is doomed. It is being destroyed on purpose


55 posted on 04/07/2018 6:39:15 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: servantboy777

According to Google and latin dictionary:

Latin; “Negro” Aethiops - area south of Egypt now Ethiopia
black - “ater”
shining black “niger”
French: “negre” adjective / noun “Le Noir”

Spanish “negro” adj
“ el negro” noun

Goes back to Roman times and African culture


56 posted on 04/07/2018 6:41:22 AM PDT by ADSUM
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To: niteowl77

Festus on Gunsmoke?


57 posted on 04/07/2018 6:42:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: C19fan

Or the NAACP.


58 posted on 04/07/2018 6:43:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: jeffc
Being easily offended is no way to go through life.

Why not? Seems to be working so far. They almost always get their way.

I'm sure this professor, a radical leftist from the1960s, will buckle and apologize.

59 posted on 04/07/2018 6:44:06 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: sonofagun
The 60’s is when black’s shed the terms “negro” and “colored” in preference to “black”.
The slogan was “I’m black and I’m proud.”

This is also when radicals were starting to speak of "black power." By the end of the sixties, at least in my neighborhood, the only whites who said "black" instead of "Negro" were liberals.

Even some blacks preferred "Negro" to "black." One of those was George Schoyler, a writer who first won critical acclaim during the Harlem Renaissance, even though he titled his autobiogrphy Black and Conservative (New Rochelle, Ny: Arlington, 1971).

60 posted on 04/07/2018 6:58:18 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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