U.S. Stopping Use Of Term ‘Negro’ For Census Surveys

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5. apparently Martin is now "offensive and outdated"

"94% of the white families in Montgomery have flush toilets inside their homes, while only 31% of the Negro families enjoy such facilities. Aside, then, from the problem of segregation itself, with its effects on every aspect of Negro life, it was clear that Mongomery's Negroes were also the victims of severe economic deprivation." "Stride toward Freedom" Martin Luther King 1958, p. 28

Perhaps the language needs to change every 30 years just so that the younger generation can look down on the fogies who were so unenlightened that they used those bad old terms. Now we have twenty years (or more) of students being taught "This is a bad word, only bad people, bigots and racists, use words like these."

But I, myself, continue to be offended by the term "paddy wagon".