[sodpoodle]

That makes sense: ‘Colored people’ does appear to be a term that (superior) ‘non-colored’ people would have coined....as opposed to the term ‘Negro’ a self-identity used by descendents of slaves.

IIRC - in the South there was no offense in using the term; ‘Negro’ - only the derogatory ‘nigger’.

Negro was then replaced by ‘colored’ and then ‘black’ and then African American....’bro’ being the newest PC term.

I have an idea - use ‘fellow Americans’.

[DeFault User]

IIRC - in the South there was no offense in using the term; ‘Negro’

True, but folks in normal conversations even with blacks used the word "colored". For some reason a lot of white Southerners had a problem pronouncing "Negro"--it came out sounding like "Negra" or "Negruh" but was not considered derogatory like the real "n" word.