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February 13, 2002 at 12:00 am #36798
Gary
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Perhaps for the same reason some people refer to themselves as ‘Italian-Americans’:-) I have sat in a room full of Blacks of varying ages and heard them say that some preferred ‘Black’, some preferred ‘African-American’ and some preferred ‘Negro’. Different generations preferred different ‘labels’.