We’ve had a long standing problem in our culture agreeing on words to identify African blacks. The ‘N’ word is taboo! One group or another has taken issue with the alternatives (African-Americans, blacks, whatever). Maybe we should show our acceptance of multiculturalism and use the Arab word ‘Abd’. I’ll bet that would light the libs fires.
For example, the phrase ‘Abd Barack Obama’ does have a nice flow to it. Kind of like we’re learning to speak Arabic.
Yuo might be on to something there.
If by “the ‘N’ word” you mean Negroid, why is this a problem? It is a word in the dictionary and in scientific literature. It even has its own page in Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that if frequently used by teachers in public schools.
Another word we have seemed to banish lately is “mulatto”, a word that the dictionary defines [2] as:
“a person with one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry.”
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroid_race
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto