I Don’t understand. Negro is not and has never been a racial slur. A slur is when you intentionally mispronounce a word to make it an insult, as in the word-that-must-not-be-uttered-by-White. Negro is merely spanish for black. I heard about a hispanic person getting shadow banned on Twitter for using the word Negro. If ‘negro’ is unacceptable, why is ‘black’ acceptable? Probably won’t be. Soon we won’t be allowed to address the person of a nero, you’ll have to address their eminence or their grace or something.
RE: I Don’t understand. Negro is not and has never been a racial slur.
It is simply a Spanish term for “black”.
For instance, there is a country named MonteNEGRO in Southeastern Europe on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Bosnia and Herzegovina. It simply means BLACK MOUNTAIN.
In the Philippines, there are two provinces — Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, both Spanish names as well.
How did it become a slur? Well, it became a slur when people started using it as a pejorative.
The most important question is this -— Why should we allow groups to dictate what words are acceptable or not?
If we allow this, eventually the pronouns “he” and “she” will be considered an insult to people whose sexual identity is “undetermined”. Are you ready to concede this?
I like Modelo Negra beer...very much!
There's a reason you've rarely heard the term since the mid sixties. It's because blacks in this country began to reject the term around that time.
By 1970, it was considered by most blacks to be an offensive label from the Jim Crow era. That remains the common perception among blacks to this day.