[aquila48]

You seem to make a big deal on her use of “Black” instead of “African-American”. The euphemism “African-American” is of recent vintage (I take it you’re rather young). I remember it well when Jesse Jackson first started pushing it and at first it was made fun of as another marketing attempt to change the product’s image by changing the name. Of course the PC media eventually adopted as the “correct” label.

But I would not read much into her use of it back then.

[aruanan]

You seem to make a big deal on her use of “Black” instead of “African-American”. The euphemism “African-American” is of recent vintage (I take it you’re rather young). I remember it well when Jesse Jackson first started pushing it and at first it was made fun of as another marketing attempt to change the product’s image by changing the name. Of course the PC media eventually adopted as the “correct” label.

But I would not read much into her use of it back then.

At one point "negro" was the accepted, neutral word.
Then "black" and "Afro-American."
Then "African-American."

Negro and black were descriptive and accurate terms, simply because there are lots of African-Americans who aren't black (though there are also lots of blacks who are mostly white) and because almost anyone who uses "African-American" to describe people would say, if you pointed out as an African-American a native born South African white or Indian who had become a U.S. citizen, "But he's not black!"