Columbia Student Offended by Professor Who Said Negro Was Correct Term in the '60s

Reason ^ | April 6, 2018 | Robby Soave

[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 She wrote to the professor, explaining to him that negro was an offensive and outdated term, but he failed to adjust his vocabulary.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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

That makes two of us.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I’ve taken to calling myself a “transracial Negro”. I “identify” far more with the “Negroes” of that era than with the “blacks” of today.

[Vigilanteman]

St. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the word "Negro" consistently. You can look it up.

And why is the term "colored people" offensive when "people of color" is consider chic?

[Vigilanteman]

Am I racist for laughing at your graphic?

[jonrick46]

The use of the word "Caucasian" is offensive to me. The use of the word "cauc" is denigrating.

[VeniVidiVici]

[Ambrosia]

Definitely racist beans.../s

[ro_dreaming]

And if you were Bob McNair, who flubbed the quote I’ve always heard “The inmates running the asylum”, you’d have yo apologize to the people you pay millions of dollars to as employees for services rendered.

[Figment]

How about LBJ calling them Nigras?