August 20, 2008
For several decades the politically correct have been bombarding us with linguistic demands. First, “negro” became “Afro-American”. Wait, that was a mistake. We were told to switch to “African American”. Wait, that, too, was a mistake. The right term is “black”. Oops, sorry, we were too quick. We really meant to tell you the proper form of address is “person of color”. But that sounds too close to being “colored”, a very evil word. So let’s go back to “African American” and make the best of it. The trouble is that the term cannot possibly be equivalent to “negro” because it implies that negro persons born and raised elsewhere are African American. Why should a Frenchman who is negro and, who like all respectable Frenchmen, hates America, have to admit he is an African American?
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