Sentence examples for Negro from inspiring English sources
The word 'Negro' was once commonly used to refer to a person of African descent in written English
However, it is now considered outdated and offensive in many contexts. It should only be used in historical or academic discussions, and even then, the term 'African American' is more appropriate and respectful. For example: "The Civil Rights Movement fought against the discrimination faced by Negroes in the United States."
noun
Alternative case form of Negro
A propos of nothing in particular, Roger says: "BBDO have just hired their first negro.
What do you think of that?" Don thinks for a moment and then says: "I think I wouldn't want to be that negro".
Section 102 said "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorise or legalise any marriage between any white person and a negro".
So for the next count, in 2020, the Census Bureau is considering collapsing the two ethnicity and race questions into a single "race or origin" inquiry (it may also drop the anachronistic term "Negro").
I believe that it is both just and wise for negro children to attend the same schools as whites, and that to deny them this opportunity carries with it strong implications of inferiority.
On the future of the negro he takes a strongly constitutional and Republican line, intimating (very properly) that the quasi-educational test, which has so effectually restricted negro suffrage, ought to be enforced not only against illiterate negroes, but against illiterate whites.
In his 1926 essay, "The Negro-Art Hokum", George Schuyler made the case that black artists were indistinguishable from their white colleagues.
The son of a judge, "he did not indulge in the usual type of Negro-baiting", wrote V.O.
Nixon could also "make immense political mileage" by opposing the forced integration of schools "and still be on the side of the angels", Mr Buchanan told his boss in another memo, adding a postscript about the reactions to urban race riots of ordinary, apolitical voters, who after a few drinks showed a "violent anti-Negro, let's buy guns attitude".
Their line, this theory suggests, started in South-East Asia and spread around the Pacific Rim.But Hoyo-Negro woman's genes tell a different story.
One of the bank's directors, William Gray, president of the United Negro College Fund and the first black American to chair the House of Representatives' budget committee, has the most S&P 500 company directorships of anybody (eight).
