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Originally Posted by GiRTh
This black person is well aware of the history of the word. Its not the most offensive word ever used to describe black people but due to its misuse over the years and transformation into other words it has been a taboo word for a quite a few years.
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Your feelings about the word have nothing to do with misuse. You've been deliberately sensitized to the word in order to further racial resentment and factionalization. There is no objective reason why "black" is a better word than "negro." In fact, they have precisely the same meaning: a reference to dark skin colour.
Alexander O'Neal,
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