Should I include the word "negro" in my MLK blog post?

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14. Of course you should. It is not racist.

In 1965 negro was the most very politically correct term for a person of African ancestry.

Moynihan's THE NEGRO FAMILY was a ground-breaking work. There's always the United Negro College Fund--that was a step up from the NAACP's out-dated "colored," which had been the most polite term earlier on.

King said negro... what else could he have said? A peson who, in 1965, had said black would have been being very offensive.

Negro was never a bad word. It is a passe word today, but it is not one of those racist terms people used back in the day because they didn't know better.

"Negro" fell into disfavor as a cultural demarcation within the African-American community. It was an older word and thus associated with a pre-cvil rights era and the adoption of "black" was shaking off the past.

But racist whites never ran around calling black people negro. It was never derisive until it was discarded. Then the Rush Limbuaghs of the world started using it 1) to show their affinity for a pre-civil rights society, and 2) because it sounds kind of like the N-word.

In 1965 there was no possible better word for the caption writer to have used.