Sentence examples for like negro from inspiring English sources

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Now place names like Negro Mountain in western Maryland seem, to many, antiquated at best and offensive at worst.

Words like "negro", "dwarf" and "Mohammedan" are being removed from the titles of works and their descriptions in the museum and its online catalogue.

We were the ones who toiled behind the scenes while straight people got married: the photographers and bakers and florists, working like Negro porters settling spoiled passengers into the whites-only section of the train.

Many a well-meaning person has innocently used words like "Negro" and "retarded," for example, and one is long gone, the other (I hope) is on the way out.

It took five years for the ice to thaw between Timothy and his father, DeCoursey Fales Sr .(of the Fales Library at New York University), who had the double discomfort of seeing his family's name mixed up in headlines like "Negro Singer Married to Socialite Ship Exec".

(These sections may be the oddest part of the report: lawyerly discussions about terms like "negro" and "blackie" and "negre" and "noir," and when and where it might be fine to use an expression and when it would be patently offensive to use the same word. Even more jarring are the matter-of-fact and liberal use of unprintable obscenities in a lengthy legal document).

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I don't like negroes.

That's not to say that he isn't still capable of the odd shocking lyric like: "Negros turn a blueish-grey when they're dead, well that's funny 'cause I've just gone quite red".

In the fly-on-the-wall documentary, Mrs Duncan was recorded as saying: "I don't know why but I don't like negroes or anyone with negro features".

I didn't understand it, because I was a Negro, and I liked Negroes very much".

"I like the Negro race," he said in a speech at an A.M.E.

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