Army says word 'Negro' OK to use
 

A newly published U.S. Army regulation says a service member can be referred to as a "Negro" when describing "black or African American" personnel. The Army confirmed the language is contained in the October 22 "Army Command Policy," known as regulation AR 600-20. The regulation is periodically updated but the Army could not say how recently the word was added to the document.

In a lengthy section of the document describing "race and ethnic code definitions," the regulation states under the category "Black or African American" that would include, "A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Terms such as "Haitian" or "Negro" can be used in addition to "Black" or "African American".

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that is what i learn is our race.
nig ger is not ok to use , but saying that person is a negro use to be ok, but now it seems not to be
On my birth papers it says negroid

Negro is a race of people
nigg er is like a bad word ( like you saying you lower than me)
nigga is slang between blacks

Just to be safe people that not black should not use the words
but it funny rappers like for you to use the words in concerts

According to Rush Hour, not cool:

Im white and im More negro than many black dude I know.

They are all fine to use in the correct sense ie not disrespectfully. Any term can be offensive
Ie get of my porch you dirty baboon!
is that racist?

We are in 2014 not 1904

Hollaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Well explained :thumbsup
Negro merely means black, not offensive in anyway.
Yet libtards and guilters would disagree with you..

Negro usage shows the Army has some old geezers working in the manuals-'updating' section. 'Negro' should not be used nor 'Haitian'; 'Negro' in the military terminology was used one hundred years ago to describe the racially segregated black combat units from the US Buffalo soldiers times to WW1 through to WW2.

Get with the New Age please US Army. Use proper modern references not ancient racially divisive terminology. Haitian is a stupid use of the word too; Haitians can be actually many different races. This is a case of ignorance of people who should be smarter Americans at their job inexcusably trying to spread their stupidity to others under the pretext of 'it's ok to be stupid like me - because I'm paid to make it ok!"

The United States Census Bureau announced that "Negro" would be included on the 2010 United States Census, alongside "Black" and "African-American", because some older black Americans still self-identify with the term.[9][10][11]

My sister birth papers say negro, mines say negroid, this only seems to bother uptight people, I am proud to be a negro

NEGRO :pimp

You watch too much FOX News. 'Negro' may not be overly offensive to many English speaking Blacks but to most it is somewhat offensive to touchy - even if they know the user must likely be 80 years or older. I'm not sure who you think you are to leap out with the statement it is "not offensive in any way" lol..... speak for yourself.

It's an outdated term is the point. I'm proud to be a geezer, but that doesn't mean 'geezer' can be used in official modern terminology related to older folks. Maybe it's a case of the officially-used outdated term not bothering just a few people at all.

united negro college fund isnt offensive, so why should this be?

Good dawning to thee. Thyne first post is most splendid!

how do you mean? like a canadian could be 'many different races', or.. ?

Point is that if I say "white" is offensive it does not make it offensive. Some tool "invented" that "negro" was offensive and some sheep followed. Does not mean it is true.

Of course it can be used in an offensive way, just as any word, but it is not offensive term out of itself.

It's a tradition with negroes to be offended by what they once insisted on being called.

colored...OFFENSIVE! call us Negroes
negroes...OFFENSIVE! call us Black
black...OFFENSIVE! call us African-Americans

call me anything , but dont call me late for dinner :upsidedow

Knee grow

You can call me late for dinner but don't you dare call me late for supper. Supper offends me.

racist asshole :2 cents:

"Sup Negro?" just doesn't sound hip enough for me.

For the same reason its ok to have an all black college but try that with all white.

Good to know niggas. Although we had just one black guy in the army and he even wasn't that black, more like a tad tanned.

But what would Congo's army think about this?

When I was in the Marines everyone was "green". Some of us were "light green" and some of us were "dark green".

No matter what though.... The blood always runs red.

The etymology of the word has not changed, nigga is the same as n-i-g-g-e-r.

the amount of nonsense in this one post is astounding!

I'm about as anti-PC as it gets myself. i just don't get so angry about it that I feel the need to insult other peoples race every single chance i get like you do--full time now it seems.

Ah fuck, blacks change their mind every 5-10 years what is acceptable.

why are they labeled racially? there is no need for it! :2 cents: :2 cents: when have you ever heard white soldiers??? :disgust:disgust:disgust you haven't

Somebody, somewhere, is going to get upset no matter what term you use. Some light-skinned people will take offense to being called "black," and African-American only applies to Americans of African descent, which besides making supposition about a persons ancestry isn't really a description of race at all. After all, Charlize Theron and Sharlto Copley are technically African-Americans.

I would think to track things such as racial disparity in who is getting promoted and/or commendations. Believe it or not, until bigotry does not exist, it's actually a good thing.

yes its a catch 22

Stuff like this makes me laugh.
It's like you have no clue about American history.

:helpme

LOL right it was formed because blacks were not allowed in white schools! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Us white people should also make the united negro college fund change their name since we know the term is denigrating.

we should also ban martin luther king's I have a dream speech from history, he refers to his race as negroes ~20 times in that.

you know, since we know better.

when I say "African Americans" my black friends say "Its Black. Not 'African American', its black"

So who fucking knows what you're supposed to say anymore? I give up lol

I sure as hell don't want to be called Caucasian. White ... dude, asshole, motherfucker, etc, is preferred.

Another thread for the GFY racists to stroke each others limp cocks.

nah your name is fine

sure does like his falstaff beer.

I prefer "mildly tanned". As long as you don't combine asshole with this.

crybaby racist :waaaaahh

Race is not skin deep.

http://survive2012.com/news/wp-conte...denisovans.jpg

Neanderthals crossbred with non-Africans and Denisovans with Asians. This has been proven with DNA testing. If you are white, you have Neanderthal DNA in you. Around 20% of Neanderthal's DNA is distributed among whites. Each white has 1% to 4% Neanderthal DNA. The Neanderthal DNA is not present in the blood of Africans.

If you want to know the source of certain differences between whites/asians and blacks, this is likely where you start looking.

Most black people are not fully black, my mom if you see her had blond hair, same as my son until they got older, great granddad was a white man.

If i came direct from Africa i would not mind be calling African american, you dont call white Americans from africa African American do you?

Bro, dude, my name , black man, fool, ass wipe etc

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Guys...

The US has two official languages. English and Spanish.

In Spanish, the word black is "negro".

Black cat? Gato negro. Black car? Coche negro. Black men? Hombres negros.

Maybe the Spanish Language Committee should get together and change the word to something less offensive in other languages...

I heard once, english won over german language in usa, is that true?

the word negro is not a bad word, dont let them fools have u to believe that
nigg er is the bad word

like i said early to be safe if you not black dont use.

Nobody is distinguishing scientific constructs from legal constructs from moral constructs from socio-political constructs...

Negroid/Negro is a scientific construct and a legal construct. Black is a socio-political construct. Nig.ger is a moral construct (or rather an immoral construct, lol). African American? Socio-political. You need to reason what the word's purpose is and then choose what construct suits that purpose. You would use Negroid/Negro on a Census form but not at a dinner table when discussing the neighbors. Language? We experience language.

You're telling people what they can say based on the color of their skin? You're a fucking racist.

In Albania we call black people niggro