[Jose Mourinho]

Originally Posted by Robodog

I knew you couldn't give that a straight answer because as you rightly say - the world is not as simple as that. But it should be - which is my point.

There is too much unnecessary confusion when it comes to words describing racial types. A word considered acceptable as recently as 2010 (in the census) is suddenly not acceptable come 2015. It's crazy and it causes people to be branded 'racist' today just for using a term that was acceptable yesterday - even when they have no racist intent whatsover. The goalposts moved and they never got the memo telling them what the new bad word of the day is.

I know Black people who prefer the word 'Negro' to the word 'Black' when it comes to describing their genetic lineage. They use 'negro' instead of 'black' as others would use 'caucasian' instead of 'white'. Are they wrong to have that preference?

I did not go into detail because YOU said you knew the history of the word? But hell on a subject like this I'd be more than happy to write or link you some posts detailing what that word means.

It is not acceptable now. Stick to the facts. There is a reason it has been removed from the census and a reason it is no longer used by the U.S army and a reason why that guy apologised to Obama for using it in that link I gave you.

Sure they may be some very very very old school black people who still accept the word. But times have changed. The fact someone apologised to Obama for using the word says it all don't you think? And don't think of it as just a spanish word or an Italian word. Think of it from UK perspective.