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I disagree. Negro is the Spanish word for black. It is purely semantics. You can call me blanco if it makes you feel better. The word Negro is from the days when the slave trade ran through the Caribbean, as Spanish was a primary language at the time, the blacks were referred to as "Negro" or black in translation. The meaning of the word does not change from context to context. Blanco still means white and Negro still means black. I can call them Noir sil vous plait, or schwarz wenn Sie bitte, or enegreça se você por favor. Regardless of the language, the meaning does not change. As De La Soul said "People think they dis my person by stating I'm darkly packed, I know this so I point at Q-Tip and he states "Black is black" Meaning a black rose by any other name dost smell as sweet.

When I was growing up, everyone used the term "Negro". It was used in the North and the South. I am happy to use the word "black" now. But what I don't understand is why when a person uses "Negro", blacks take immediate offense and give no slack to whites. If it is OK for 100 years, it should not be a forbidden word now. What am I missing?

I will explain for you Stafford 5465. It wasn't OK a 100 years ago either. We were forced to come over here. 100 years ago the term Negro was use ( as I'm sure you know already) as a derogatory term to keep slaves in their place and every black person then and NOW knows this as well as whites. This is why if you call a black person the N word( Not Negro) be ready for a fight or worse. Just like you if your white, don't like being called trailer trash or coon, don't use those words. As for black people calling each the N word as a form of brotherly love, I disagree. I forbid my children form using it. My reason. If you don't want others outside your race using it, Then don't use it among yourselves. This is just my opinion.

Hey nothing but the truth, you are misinformed. You said "Just like you if your white, don't like being called trailer trash or coon"
Coon is a derogatory term for a black person.
Also, trailer trash is a state of being. As in not all white people are "Trailer trash", however all black people are Negroes, because the word negro simply means black. Regardless of the context, black is black. Negro is negro.

Now if you were looking for appropriate slurs for whites your can call us "cracker" "honky" "white boy" "white bread" and "masser".

I will continue to use Negro, and I will teach my children to use negro, because it is just as proper as using the term black.

Who enslaved blacks in Africa? Were they white people or were they black people?

It was other Negroes. The slaves were usually the captured enemies and their families or tribes. These were sold to Dutch traders initially.

When I was ten years old, 1953, it occured to me that a sign above the drivers seat on a Greensboro city bus was as follows: ALL COLLORED PATRONS PLEASE BE SEATED IN THE REAR. We were taught as children to say collored.
It seems to me that black americans have searched for their identity in the United States for a long time. I hope they have at long last found it. It also occured to me that I am British American. I wonder if National Association Of British Americans would be seen as racist.

Dusenberry,only groups that align themselves to an Anglo or Caucasian Association are racist. Organizations that use the term Black, Hispanic, or any other racial group are not considered racists. This is brought to you by 30 years of left-wing retards giving up the rights of whites and Anglo's everywhere. If I started an organization called the United White Person College Fund I would be drummed out of town. If I started the White Caucus, I would be burned at the stake.

I like the term colored as well. It is soo colorful.

A century ago, "negro" was emphatically not a term that blacks rejected as racist (hence UNCF), nor was "colored" (hence NAACP). They were the polite, accepted terms. The rules here are esoteric: "colored person" is now impolite, but "person of color" is acceptable--cutting-edge PC, in some quarters. "Afro-American" once had a progressive, radical connotation; now, it's "dated" (like the hairstyle, a relic of the 60s/70s).

Historically, terminology for disempowered racial groups tends to have a shelf life, as over time the term acquires the negative, racialist connotations associated with the group itself. For folks like JR, the term "negro" itself calls into being the way "blacks" were thought about at the time: the word is linked to the stereotype. So the need for new term--one without the baggage--is perceived (or demanded by the group so named). The literal meaning/origin of the term is utterly beside the point. If "black" had been the preferred term during Jim Crow, it would be taboo today and we might well be saying "Negro."

The problem here is that the perceived need to be "polite" (and the demand to be so on the part of group being named) indicates that there is something inherently uncomfortable about any encounter involving the group--that, in effect, the group is the social equivalent of a person with a milk mustache ("oh dear, what should I SAY?").