There is nothing wrong with being colored. I don’t think so at least, it was a polite term, but I guess I am wrong, because we had to change the name.<\/p>\n
There is nothing wrong with bring Negro. Martin Luther King was a Negro. But what do I know? We had to change the name.<\/p>\n
There is nothing wrong with being black. Right?\u00a0 But, again, I am just little me, and we seem to be suffering over changing the name again.<\/p>\n
There is nothing wrong with being African American. Oh, but I might be mistaken here, too.<\/p>\n
There is nothing wrong with being a person of color.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n
Actually, there is<\/em> something wrong with being in a group that has to keep changing its name. If merely using a name for a few years makes it tarnished, there is a problem.<\/p>\n Conversely, you can tell when a group has arrived and is comfortable with its circumstance: when it quits changing its name.\u00a0 The fact that we are being a bit sluggish in these last two name changes is a good sign. Maybe we are finally coming out from the shadow of that horrible crime of slavery.\u00a0 It clearly isn’t behind us, but maybe this is the beginning of the end of slavery.<\/p>\n I am an optimist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is nothing wrong with being colored. I don’t think so at least, it was a polite term, but I guess I am wrong, because we had to change the name. There is nothing wrong with bring Negro. Martin Luther King was a Negro. But what do I know? We had to change the name. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,43,66,203,232,253,281],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-african-american","tag-black","tag-colored","tag-negro","tag-person-of-color","tag-race","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}