1) Do you consider term "Negro" offensive?

2) Why do you consider it offensive (or not offensive)?

3) Do you believe that those who use the term are more than likely racist?  Why?

3) yes

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But even though I don't understand it, I respect that they can be hurt from hearing it, and I expect people to remove it from their vocabulary... exactly the way I don't want to hear faggot and cocksucker and "that's gay" all the time.  If it's bothering people, don't say it.

1) yes.
2) not sure
3) probably, or just uneducated or naive.

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I was listening to some guys talking about the term on the channel POTUS on my satelite radio the other day and it got me wondering how people view the term.

1) Do you consider term "Negro" offensive?

2) Why do you consider it offensive (or not offensive)?

3) Do you believe that those who use the term are more than likely racist? Why?

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1) naw not really

2)naw, it's cause my grampa had to deal with being aclled a term more HARSH than such and it kidn of affecte dme cause he'd work with people who would call himt hat and then i got friends (black) who're like "negro please"

3) not racist necessarily, but a bit behind the times

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I don't think it's offensive, but I think it's in poor taste.

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colored=negro in poor taste

lmao i remember this one persons parents, who uh, when i came over one tiem referred to me as her colored friend. I was like  

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Not sure how the power to enforce the label gets worked into it as very few whites refer to blacks as negro (although as far as the genetics of race goes, negro is usually used to refer to what we'd think of as blacks), but the guy went on about how whites have the power to enforce that over how blacks would like to be called and blah blah. Might have some validity (particularly for the first part), but he conveniently ignores the fact that most whites don't accept the term either.

Post edited at 11:32 pm on Jan. 11, 2009 by Bud2400

2) Not so much, but like just about any word it can be used in an offensive manner.

3) I'd guess the chances would be higher than someone who doesn't though. Just because it's a pretty odd saying, and most of the people that use it in my experience actually are.

I don't get why they can't just say "black" especially when the same idiots don't mind saying "white".

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lmao i remember this one persons parents, who uh, when i came over one tiem referred to me as her colored friend. I was like

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Quote: from Springs at 11:26 pm on Jan. 11, 2009

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lmao i remember this one persons parents, who uh, when i came over one tiem referred to me as her colored friend. I was like  

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pretty weird.

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On the channel I was listening to, this one guy was going on about the power to create racial labels and enforce them.

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Like ppl who bash others when they call themselves latino or hispanic. Or try to label native Americans as "red" then "Indian" then "amerind" and decide what they should call themselves for them. And if those guys protest and say well I don't like that label or I don't fit in that group or that its not the correct term then they call them trash and retards and scum.

I always let ppl give themselves the label they want.

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Offensive? Depends...but I wouldn't think twice about the average person getting offended by someone calling them Mongoloid, Causian, or Negro instead of asking about their names respectfully.