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The term Negro is still widely used as a non offensive term to describe Black people. There is the Negro sports academy, the Negro sport league (which incidently whites are not allowed into HMMMMMMM) and even the granddaddy of Black rights, MLK used the word extensively in his day.

Ken was brought up using it as was I and it seems that the word has been maligned in recent terms as has coloured. The youth of today are well up on these things but our age group are not. In fact till his dying day, my dad used to refer to blacks as Darkies and I was for ever telling him he was wrong but he didn't understand me.

Ken maybe does know and maybe he did use it to create a problem to a fellow nomed but maybe he didn't expect Alex to be upset, who knows. As a test I rang my best mate who is my age and asked him if he thought it was offensive and he said no, my daughter laughed and told me to be careful and my son, who is gay, thought that Perez calling Ken homophobic was far more PC incorrect, so you go figure.