Follow
In your lifetime
How many words have been considered appropriate where you lived for referring to descendants of African slaves?
How many still run through your think today with regularity when choosing words to use?
In your lifetime
How many words have been considered appropriate where you lived for referring to descendants of African slaves?
How many still run through your think today with regularity when choosing words to use?
@steelhoof when I was young it was always "African-American" and when I got to be about 20, it was "People of color" until a friend rolled her eyes at me one day and just said "FFS Linda, just say Black! it's not an epithet."