07-16-2013, 02:40 PM
The term used when calling a person black, nigger, nigga, colored, have over time been embraced and then rejected by the Afro-American community over the past 40 years. Even the NAACP whose organization has "Colored' as part of the acronym in its title now rejects the very word 'colored' when used to describe Afro-Americans. To me it speaks more to Afro-American dissatisfaction with-in the culture as they try to find the 'magic' word to remedy this self-loathing. Tearing a people away from all ancestral ties and subordinating them under the subjugation and slavery of others has far reaching consequences for both the subjugated and the oppressor.