AN UPDATE: Regarding the thread this morning about the use of the word "Negro" at work

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20. A LOT of young people think "negro" is a slur.

It's not, any more than calling Black folk "colored." I worked with an elderly Black gentleman for some time about a decade ago. He always referred to himself as colored, as he grew up with that phrase and then was forced by society to change it to African Americans and then to Black Americans. He particularly hated the term African American, because he'd never set foot in Africa.

But to young, especially white young people on the left, they've been told over and over not to say the n-word, and I honestly think many of them think negro is a variation of the n-word. I agree with the response, above, that the complainer should be forced to get some education as to the history of the Negro Baseball League and other language used over the years to describe them by both Blacks and whites.

I hope she does consult the ACLU. They'll laugh out loud at the ridiculousness of it!