I’ll tell you why they haven’t changed the name “Negro”. It’s because “they”, are changing the language to suit them. As in calling each other “Nigger” but don’t dare say that word if you aren’t Black.
It’s to gain control and make others, mostly Whites, feel “racist”. I call BS on the word game because I’ve heard: Black, Nigra, Negro, Nigger, Coloreds, African, African-American and more from people referring to themselves over the years.
If Mr. Bundy used a word he’s comfortable with and used to saying, so what? I doubt he meant any disrespect and he’s entitled to his opinion and use of words as much as any one else.
For further clarification on my point, listen to some Jay-Z rap music, my nigga.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. No matter what color those birds are.
Sure. He’s free to say anything he wants. But others are free to use that to paint him as something he isn’t and dismiss him and anything he says out of hand. If the government is after you, public perception is everything. Is he a patriot, standing up to jackbooted thugs? Or is he a racist that deserves everything that’s happening to him? The answer to that question is everything.