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Originally Posted by Jose Mourinho

Martin Luther King was born when that word was acceptable. His use of it is far different from the one this thread is related to. To compare it to that is avoiding the reality of the situation. The word has now become unacceptable over the years. Do you not see that? And its not just "A word " anymore. The world is not as simple as that.

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?