I grew up thinking that AAs were called “Niggers”. We were taught IN SCHOOL that Black people were “Negroes”.
Nigger was just a slang term for “Negroes”. EVERYONE KNEW THAT!
While, yes, I attended all White schools. My FIRST Black classmate was in high school. She was very popular and became class president.
As a kid, I did see Black people as we lived in a rural/farming community and there were migrant workers. Never really had any “raciss” thoughts about them. They OBVIOUSLY “looked different”, but so did “Red Heads”!
They were people who came to pick apples and whatever farm work and then they were gone. Gone “where”, I had no idea. It was just the way of the world in upstate New York in the fifties and early sixties.
Then all hell broke loose.
Except it wasn’t.
OK, now that we all follow and have our faith in ‘science’,
what is the binominal name or scientific name for African Americans?
That would be the proper ‘scientific’ name for us all to use.