DRUDGE: Andy Rooney says 'NEGRO' is a perfectly good word

The Drudge Report ^ | November 4, 2005

[new yorker 77]

'I have a problem with the term African American...The word negro is a perfectly good word. There is nothing wrong with that'

Andy Rooney on Imus 11/4/05, MSNBC, 8:45am ET

[evad]

Just heard Samuel Jackson on an ad where he asks for support for the United NEGRO College Fund.

Guess he's out now.

[evad]

"MSNBC apologizes to Niger Innis for spelling mistake..."

Oh...OK.

That explains it :)

[texasbluebell]

Ha! You beat me to it!

[dead]

Andy was almost kinda funny, before he died.

[kpp_kpp]

...

Kid 2: She's a 6th grade teacher, you know her, she's sort of heavy? has dark skin?

Kid 1: Oh you mean the one that more melanin than I do?

...


us 'white' people are malanin-challenged. mutations actually.

[AmericanDave]

Black Americans, or Blacks?

[oldbrowser]

It is what blacks called themselves for a generation here. We have gone from Negro to black to African American.

None of those names are bad in and of themselves.

[AmericanDave]

Black is a perfectly fine, and hard to mess up word. I'm White, and Black people are full Americans, not hyphenated Americans...... Remember Roosevelts' speach about hyphenated americans (Teddy R, that is).

It's American Indians that are the real word problem. They are either Redskins, Indians, Natives' but going along with the Black and White monikers, Reds would be more appropo'; except for the Commie' connotation with that word! Of course then the Hispanics don't want to be called Browns, and what color would you use for Chineese?

[AmericanDave]

I prefer to annoy them with "Human" myself."

PERFECT.........................LOL

[DCPatriot]

He's correct.

"Negro" is NOT a racist word. Get over it.

And, I'm just glad a dirty leftist lib such as Rooney has the cajones to voice that opinion.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Chappelle's facial expression there is priceless...

[HEY4QDEMS]

They still have the "United Negro College Fund"

There's nothing wrong with the word. When you get right down to it, "Colored", "Black", "African-American" are merely euphemisms for Negro.

[fish hawk]

It seems that each individual person has his own idea on what they liked to be called. Probably African American is the most used. I am an American Indian. People say, are you a Native American, I say yes and so are you. So I go by American Indian instead. The real truth is that we are all Americans, in the end.

[babble-on]

can I get redress under the Americans With Disabilities Act for my melanin deficiency which cost me a promising NBA career when I started getting cut from basketball teams in the 7th grade?

[Frank_2001]

Wow! If he had been a Democratic consultant, MSNBC might not be in business today, but under the circumstances, an apology's fine.../s

[19th LA Inf]

A few years ago on a Dallas TV station, one of the sports guys was reporting the finals of the NCAA basketball championship. He said "and tonight, the NAACP has a new champion!" At the end of the broadcast they made him come back, sort of redfaced, and say "Of course, that's the NCAA".

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Yes it is.

One of my favorite sketches revolved around the blind, African-American Klansman.

I've never actually watched the show, but just the recapitulation of that skit on the pages of the New York Post's Entertainment section was enough to leave me in stitches.

[mac_truck]

I play Scrabble and Negro is disallowed.

Stop playing Scrabble with Maxine Waters..

[GraniteStateConservative]

Are you on dial-up or broadband?

[gondramB]

"Why? The usage today is "African-American." Of course tomorrow, it might be something else. Negro to black to African-American in 3 decades. Ridiculous."

Because "black" is not archaic and "African American" is not fully accepted. "Negro", on the other hand has become archaic - it was too close to a word that was offensive and thus has become outdated.