It's reported today that there is uproar in some quarters due to a crossword puzzle including the word 'negro'. Really ?
In a world in which words such as shit, fuck, bollocks, crap, fanny and even the appalling cunt, are regularly used on television and in films, to make a fuss about a word like negro is risible. I fully appreciate that to refer to someone as a nigger may be seen as being highly offensive, but negro has no such connotations to anyone with any intelligence. It may be a word that is rather outdated but basically that is all; it has fallen out of fashion or favour.
Negro is simply a descriptive word, not a pejorative one. Those who find it offensive need to get a life.
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