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Originally Posted by Jose Mourinho

Bored of this debate tbh. In a nutshell Alexander kindly explained to Ken that his use of the word might get his "Ass kicked". There is no doubt there was a time when the word was acceptable, but as Alex kindly taught us all, that time is no longer and it is clearly no longer acceptable. Who are we to argue with a man of his experience? Hope this answers your question.

I love Alexander O Neal and i am sure he is right in explaining that some people find it offensive. But clearly many people are also comfortable with it as a perfectly acceptable racial term.

For example; the official US census uses it as a proper racial category as recently as 2010 - bear in mind, that is during the presidency of Obama!

So how and why did it go from being an official government racial category to a racial slur in 4 short years??

And who knew??