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    Posted March 18, 2010 by
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    By MILLY51  |  Posted March 18, 2010  |  plantation, Florida
     

    It is unbelieveable to me that the U.S. Department of Commerce used the word Negro.  What? Black and African American couldnt suffice???

     

     

    'During the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, some African American leaders in the United States objected to the word, preferring Black,[2] because they associated the word Negro with the long history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination that treated African Americans as second class citizens, or worse. During the 1960s Negro came to be considered an ethnic slur.[3]

    The term is now considered archaic and offensive, and is not commonly used.' (yes i wiki-ed it)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro

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