Use of word Negro on 2010 census forms raises memories of Jim Crow

nydailynews.com ^ | Jan. 6, 2010 | Katie Mcfadden and Larry Mcshane

[Cementjungle]

Bush's Obama's fault.

[chris_bdba]

Well there are truely only 3 races of people on earth, Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid. Everything else that is called race is a combination of the 3.

[Slump Tester]

"It's a bad vibe word," said Kevin Bishop..."

Imagine his indignation if they'd have said "darkies"!

[Brett66]

Weren’t they called Afro-Americans in the 70’s?

[Mark was here]

How about a term of love and endearment that they use for each other?

[1776 Reborn]

Alright already. Negro, Blacks, Afro Americans, etc, etc.
Let’s just put little pictures on the census forms and have people match the one that they think looks like them.

[RC2]

Why don’t we just say “Youz guys”?

[GrannyAnn]

In this post racial era, skin color matters how?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

year's census form asks about race, with one of the answers listed as "black, African-Am. or Negro."

How does a Boer or Rhodesian refugee who resettles in the United States answer that question? Logically, they should say African American. Not all three are equivalent. If you don't like negro the Spanish/Portuguese for black, then you shouldn't take to the Anglo-Saxon equivalent. Strange, whatever name used becomes derisive in a generation. That's the politics of the left's elite to manipulate the "injured" class.

[CodeToad]

I thought the term was “Bruthas”?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A least they didn’t say niggardly.

[a fool in paradise]

America is the only place still using the racist (and junk science term) “Caucasian” to describe white people.

[Slings and Arrows]

*facepalm*

[a fool in paradise]

I want to see how Barack Obama fills out HIS form.

[Ditto]

"It's a bad vibe word," said Kevin Bishop, 45, a Brooklyn salesman. "It doesn't agree with me, doesn't agree with my heart."

When I was growing up, to call someone "Black" was a very bad insult -- as bad as the "N" word. Negro or Colored were the accepted terms for polite people of both races.

[Little Ray]

Would the prefer “Colored?”

Didn’t think so.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The NAACP originally meant to include all non-whites, including Indians (native Americans) and orientals.

In South Africa “colored” meant non white and non black, i.e., Indians (Hindus) and mulattos.

[billhilly]

“I guess you could say it’s not the color of the skin,
but the thinness of it that is the problem.”

That is a perfect observation. In my lifetime of seven plus decades I have known several names that were preferred by the Negro race, Negro being one of them. Then colored was the name of preference, thus came the NAACP. Then there was a brief period of self honesty when black became beautiful and it was an OK way to describe colored people. African American was, if I remember it correctly, promoted heavily by hustlers like Jesse Jackson and the PC crowd.

For more than 70 years I’ve just been white and Caucasion, the latter more accurate than the former, but white is shorter and I don’t mind it. Of course black is shorter than African-American, so we come back to your remarks, and the truth of the matter.

[voicereason]

Hell...I hope they have a write-in block for religion, because I'm going to write-in JEDI.

[Nowhere Man]

I’m “Native American”; I was born here.

I've always marked that one as well but I think they got wise since they use "American Indian" now.