In the United States we have been called many things
African (add country or tribe)
Slave
Madingo
Darkie
Boy/Girl
Free Man or Freed Man
Mulatto
Creole
Servant/Maid
Negro/Negress
Nigger
Colored
Colored folk
Negro race
A credit to our race
Black
Well spoken
Buppy (a black yuppy)
Mixed
African American (American is intended to be reserved for White's only. The inference is racist within its own wording)
We have struggled to be called human see: Notes on the State of Virginia T. Jefferson. Notes was originally prepared for Louis XVI of France as an enticement to promote goods and trade. ( http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s28.html ), in our quest to be American we have made far to many compromises on how we are referred in history. A recent article defines a Slave running away from his master as a break. I see this as an insult. A break can refer to many things. The article makes it sound as if it were a mutual agreement that the then slave negotiated his departure from servitude.
We live in a world of ever softening definitions of situations and redefined words I am and have always been fearful of mass acceptance of easy to digest words and conversations regarding what has happened to stolen Africans in the United States.
When we define ourselves as Black keep in mind it is the only term we as a group chose for ourselves in the United States. Negro is a term that was leveled at us in an attempt to classify us just as African American was placed upon us for census purposes.
Remind yourself of how it felt for our parents and some of our older members to have first defined themselves as BLACK, it will help you defend against the softening of language referencing Slavery or any other negative mark in the United States history regarding stolen Africans.
I am proud to be of slave stock in America and the world for one simple fact. In all of known written history in every culture the revolt of the slave is legendary. The resilience of the slave is far greater than that of those that are called master.
I have included the article in question http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264983/The-real-life-Django-black-Wild-West-marshal-Bass-Reeves-arrested-3-000-outlaws-killed-14-men.html
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