Is it OK to say “The Negro”?

[left-of-center2012]

Sometimes I like to turn Fox News on for a few minutes, to test if my medication is working at keeping my blood pressure down.

I apologize for not knowing the name of the host on Fox’s “America’s Election HQ’ around 11:15 A.M. MTS, nor her male guest.
She asked him if Trump’s visit to an African-American church was a farce, or a sincere outreach to the African-American community.

What really caught my attention was that the guest used the term “The Negro ...” several times
as in:
“The Negro needs to understand that the Republican Party is their friend.”

And I'm thinking:

"WOW"

[Warpy]

1. Only if you're speaking Spanglish in a Mexican clothing shop

and choosing the black item over another one.

These guys really are stuck in the 1950s. Either they need to be put back to sleep or deprogrammed so they can progress along with the rest of us.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. "understand that the Republican Party is their friend.”

Actually, they are NO ones friend, and anyone that buys that crap really should be in a padded cell.

[Coolest Ranger]

3. No it is never okay

to say that. Not if you don't want to offend people like me.

If the Republican Party was my friend then why is it every time a Republican Governor gets in the first thing they do is pass some insane law to restrict my right to vote.

Why is it they don't expand medicare and medicaid benefits?

Why is it they restrict how many food stamp benefits I can get?

Why is it they don't expand services to people on disability?

Until they can give me a straight answer on that no, it's never okay to say that

[left-of-center2012]

4. I'm reminded of what Trump said:

"Where's my African-American?"

[pansypoo53219]

5. as close to N••••• as they can go in official areas.

OF COURSE NEGRO. whistles are whistles.

[left-of-center2012]

6. One response I got elsewhere was ...

"Well, MLK used the term "the negro".

Yeah, that was fifty years ago!

[JI7]

7. not in that context

[Chitown Kev]

8. Right

If it's said in reference to something that was said or done in the past (say, a Dr. King speech or even something FDR said) then it's OK.

If that's this person's present day reference toblack people, then....well, we actually know what this person says in private about black people, right?

[heaven05]

10. the person who uses that term

to describe an AA knows exactly what they are representing in using that term. A day long past where nigra was the preferred moniker to describe black people. People like this are the only ones who don't know how much their hate and ignorance is showing. Stupid, stupid people really.

[kwassa]

11. The guest is displaying his idiocy in several ways.

and is also lost in some kind of time-warp. The phrase "The Negro" sounds like something out of an analysis from the 1950s, however the Republican party stopped being the friend of black people way back in the 1870s when they dropped the enforcement of Reconstruction.

"Negro" is the Spanish word for the color black, by the way.

[LanternWaste]

12. I've found it a safe bet that any word, label, name or moniker that compels me to ask "is it ok to s

I've found it a rather safe bet that any word, label, name or moniker that compels me to ask "is it ok to say this?" is better spent unsaid.