Bennett, What's In a Name? Afro- American vs. Afro- American vs. Black. Lerone Bennett, Jr. Senior Editor, Ebony Magazine Source: Ebony 2. November 1. 96. 7): 4.

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This group charges that the word . An equally large, but. A Negro by any. other name, they say, would be as black and as beautiful- -and as.

The times, they add, are too crucial for Negroes to. But the. pro- black contingent contends, with Humpty Dumpty, that names are of.

And they maintain that. America. To make things even. Black Power. advocates, has adopted a new vocabulary in which the word . It was discussed with gravity at a meeting of. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, and it is a. Negro leaders who have been. At the Racism in Education.

Conference of the American Federation of Teachers, the delegates. But the Black Power conferees compounded the problem. Some pro- . Negro advocates charged indignantly that . Pressures from these groups and. And it was. in response to the growing edge of blackness that several. Africa and America.

The Negro Teachers. Association of New York City, for example, became the. African- American Teachers Association. More significantly, in terms. New York Amsterdam News, one of the largest black. Dick. Edwards, the assistant managing editor, says letters are running nine. Afro- American. There seems to be.

Negro' with Uncle Tom. They seldom use the word 'Negro.' They use. Black' and 'African.' Some of them even object to the word. Afro- American,' preferring the term 'Afram.'. For Americans of African.

Africa by Europeans who arbitrarily branded them. The Portuguese and Spanish, who were. African Slave Trade, used this adjective to designate. African men and women whom they captured and transported to the. New World. Within a short time, the Portuguese word. English noun- adjective . But it appears from an.

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The first black. immigrants seem to have preferred the word . When the American. Colonization Society organized a movement to send free Africans. Nonsense brethren! You are COLORED AMERICANS. RED AMERICANS, and the white people are WHITE. AMERICANS and you are as good as they, and they are no better than.

There were, to be. Frederick Douglass, the leading colored public.

For a short spell, the term . In other words, it was a term of militancy. We are told, for example, that Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first. U. Senate, refused to use. North Carolina constitutional convention of 1. James Walker. Hood, one of 1.

Coghlan, a radical white Southerner, offered a resolution. They begin to redefine themselves and they begin to. The post- Reconstruction period, one of.

American history, was an archetypal expression. Washington used the word . There were also exponents. Afro- American theme, as evidenced by the founding, in 1.

National Afro- American League, and the Baltimore Afro- American. Toward the end of the century, the. National Association for the Advancement of. Colored People in 1. By 1. 91. 9, the Negro Year Book could. The result is that the word 'Negro' is, more and.

In an editorial (March. It is not merely a. It appears. also that there has been continuous and sustained opposition to the. Contemporary critics of the word . The movement for adoption of the word . Du. Bois, who was one of the founders of the American Negro Academy, and.

Marcus Garvey, who used the word . As a matter of fact, the classic argument in. Du Bois in a. reply to a pro- African letter.

Since this exchange, which appeared in. Crisis in March, 1. But, in the eyes of. Critics of this. famous exchange say Du Bois' premises are dubious, to say the least.

In other words, there is no necessary. From this premise, which. Keith Baird, the coordinator of the. Afro- American History and Cultural Center of the New York City Board. Education, and other opponents of the word . They are also critical of Du Bois' assertion that .

As for the. eloquent conclusion, critics say that Du Bois evaded the the issue. But the whole point of racism in America is the determination. Du Bois- -who have won the Thing but lack a.

Name. Du Bois was too honest and too brilliant to be content with the. As late as 1. 95.

Moreover, his works (The. Souls of Black Folk, The Gifts of Black Folk, Black Folk: Then and. Now, Black Reconstruction) testify to a certain ambivalence about. She has no objections to. Spurlock says she prefers the word .

Benjamin Quarles, professor of. Morgan College. There are levels of sophistication on which you. For some people, the. Negro' which, traditionally, they say, is a slave- oriented name. But, nevertheless, you have. Negro.' I wouldn't quarrel with them. Nevertheless, I would.

Negro,' because I see nothing wrong. Words change in their context. We have many words.

For instance, the. Friends were sometimes called Quakers in derision.

Instead of dodging. I believe you will begin to see the same evolution of the.

Negro' as Americans of African descent move into their rightful. American society. And they contend that. Perhaps the most articulate. Keith Baird, the young Afro- American expert. New York City Board of Education. According to Baird, .

Positive and. enhancing self- regard is a psychological necessity of life, and the. In fact, we tend to think as we speak. A name can determine the. He. does believe, however, that it will make a significant difference in. Americans. 1) The word. The use of the word became connected with what Earl Conrad has.

The unwillingness of the. African is evidenced. Americans in terns of the land of their origin, terms such as. Italian- American, Polish- American, Spanish- American, Jewish- American.

Judaea), etc.. are employed. In the American mind there is no connection of the. American with land, history and culture- -factors which proclaim. Moore says the word . At the request of Ebony Magazine, Ossie. Davis, the playwright- actor, searched his soul and came up with the.

I am a Negro. I am clean, black and I smile a lot. Whenever I. want something- -to get a job in motion pictures, for instance, or. Broadway, whenever I. I go to white folks. White folks have. White folks have power. All of my needs. - - financial, artistic, social my need for freedom - - I must.

That is what is meant by being a. Negro. Malcolm X used to be a Negro, but he stopped.

He no loner. depended on white folks to supply his needs - - psychologically or. Most of. all, he did not need to tell them who he was. Above all, he was. Tucson Dating Service.

That was why Malcolm was no. Negro. Malcolm was a man, a black man! A black man means. Negroes do but to fight hell out of. Malcolm did. It can be dangerous. Malcolm was killed.

Nevertheless, I like Malcolm much better than I like. In this statement, Ossie Davis, who is considered a black man by. Americans of African descent. And in the course.

I have often heard people ask, 'Why do they call Africans Negroes. Negroes in America Africans?' I think this article has. I know cleared up a lot of. Your conclusion of the article, leaving it up to the individual to. Monroe. Portland, Ore.(2)Hurrah for your article, . I agree that the term .

Taylor. Chicago, Ill.(4)Anything except that odious word, . We were not dropped into America; we. Africa. So what else are we? Words are the. greatest avenue of communication and much more reliable than signs.

Words, that is. Besides all of this I have. Boers, or whatever they are in. South Africa, would just love to RIGHTLY own the name Africans; they. Let us all rally around. Afro- American. I think Black has connotations of arrogance.

Virginia J. Harden. Detroit, Mich.(7)Let us understand one thing, this name game is not an individual. Black forefathers wer tagged with the name Negro during the. It is not so that some individuals need a change word. This concerns a group of people in full. This. means the return to our rightful identity as a people, no one. Says Richard Moore.

The Name Negro: . Oblington. Vauxhall, N. J.(8)A random survey of Afro- American personnel on this base, taken by. Afro- American and African- American. Hitchens. Castle Air Force Base, Calif.(9)I am forwarding the coupon in the hope that something may be.

Keith Baird. Unfortunately, the name makes a hell of. Mrs. Harrison. Portsmouth, Va.(1. With every revolution, a change is brought about. I think that the. Certainly, there won't. I feel that with the continuous effort on. Afro- American discontinuing the use of the word.

Negro and securing his rightful identification, the change can be. Donadrian L. Rice. Spartanburg, S. C.(1. I will not and have not got anywhere by the name that is adjoined.

I am an individual unto myself and the person looking. M. Elaine Boles. Toledo, Ohio(1. By choosing a term such as . Moore's book, The.

Name . Brinkley. New York, N. Y.(1. 4)I believe you can help immensely in eradicating this inane and. Watson. Chicago, Ill.(1. I feel that it is imperative that the word . In this way wee can effectively overcome the. M. V. Saurennann.

Philadelphia, Penna.(1. I feel that the NAACP should appropriate the necessary funds and. National Association for the Advancement. Professional Dating Bay Area on this page. Afro- Americans (NAAAM). S. Sgt. Al Fudge. Detroit, Mich.(1. I have no qualms about being identified as a Negro.

I regard that. designation as nothing more than an impersonal, factual description. The unfavorable. connotations that have grown up around the word are unfortunate, I. I am aware that my own ancestry includes individuals of American. Indian and Caucasian blood, but since my Negro ethnic characteristics. I will not deny that I am, primarily, a Negro. The use. of such terms as . I would much prefer .

Cummings. Staten Island, N. Y.(1. 8)My parents were owned by a rich and kind man. He was good to them. They kept the name their forefathers.

Africa, and we were all very proud of our name. I. must vigorously assert that there is something in a name. Mrs. Smith. Perris, Calif.(1. Already I feel the impact of the word . But. now, I'm proud.

Heaven knows, I'm proud. R. Byrd. Springfield Gardens, N. Y. 1. 96. 7) are good - - you might even add nigger, and meet it. Dick Gregory does, beating Whitey to the draw, and making. As long as you carry a chip on your shoulders concerning any name.