<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">In the season premiere of the U.S. tv show "Black-ish,” in an episode that tackles who can use what racial slurs, “negro” comes up and causes offense to Black characters. The following exchange occurs, between the protagonist’s consistently racist boss and the protagonist:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">“Well, in that case, maybe I should put a stop payment on the half-million dollar check that I just wrote to the United Negro College Fund.”</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">“Come on, Mr. Stevens, be honest—you only wrote that check so you can say ‘Negro.’”</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">“Well, I definitely don’t do it so I _can’t_ say it.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Jeff Kaufman via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
On Nov 1, 2015 3:30 PM, "John Meechan via Callers" <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> I have never heard the term gipsy used as a pejorative for Romany gipsies, in fact their national body is called the Gipsy Council.<br class="">
></p><p dir="ltr" class="">That might just mean it's an old organization. In the US the NAACP is a big national organization which stands for "national association for the advancement of colored people" but "colored people" is definitely not OK to use anymore.</p></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>