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Oh, that's interesting about Negro. I'm enough younger than you that I learned it as a rude word before I learned that it had been ok historically. I was also a bit shocked to find out that when Dorothy Sayers referred to a character as black, which looks unexpectional to a modern British reader, she was actually being deliberately derogatory as the polite term when she was writing was in fact Negro. I assume whatever American activist had good reasons for objecting to it.