[Jose Mourinho]

Originally Posted by Robodog

Yeah you are right, some black people do find the word offensive: and some do not. You keep saying noone uses the word anymore but they do. It has been a perfectly acceptable term globally for generations, including during OUR generation (see the link below). I don't know why you have such trouble accepting that. It's not a slang term like 'n----r' or it would NEVER have been used on census forms, in sporting leagues or by Martin Luther King himself in his most famous 'I have a dream' speech. To remind you, here is evidence of examples of it's recent, mainstream acceptable use : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro

And yeah it has been taken off the census NOW which is a sign of how the word has evolved - but that has only occurred VERY RECENTLY. Undeniable truth is that it was perfectly acceptable in Obama's 2010 census - which is ONLY a few years ago. If it really was as bad as you make out, for as long as you make out, then it simply would not have been on that 2010 census in the first place!

Do you honestly think either Obama's administration or the previous one (which included Condoleeza Rice) would knowingly put a racist term on the ethnic background section of their census form?! Of course not!

The word has evolved SINCE THEN. That's fair enough, things change. But that's a VERY fast turnaround from being acceptable in 2010 to unacceptable by 2015, so it's no wonder people are confused by it!

I have told you previously, that in Martin Luther king's era, that word was acceptable. So please don't compare it to anything that dates far back then when the word WAS acceptable. I have already told you this.

Obama did not put it on the U.S Census, it was there before he went into office but as you can see now, it has been rightly removed.


"According to Oxford Dictionaries, use of the word now seems out of date or even offensive in both British and US English"

That is the very last sentence in your Wikipedia link and probably the most important one.


So you say people still use that word comfortably? Who? Show us all.