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It's 1962. "Negro" was the polite word, you don't have to asterisk it.
by slibhb 3y ago
It's 1962. "Negro" was the polite word, you don't have to asterisk it.
- burnished 3y agoOh, that changes the meaning of the sentence significantly.
- csa 3y agoIt does. Fwiw, Alex Haley was also black, so he was perhaps asking from a shared perspective.
- megmogandog 3y agoI'm aware of the context and took no offense when I read it; I asterisked it for 2023.
- joebob42 3y agoFor what it's worth, the asterix is confusing. Your comment gave me a wildly different (apparently incorrect) impression.
- Ingaz 3y agoAnd "Black" was a pejorative. Steven King used this in "Dark Tower" to show that members of ka-tet were from different times