We can't get rid of negro because too many people call themselves negros. I worked the 2010 census operation, and the forms had many terms for many races and ethnicities. We wrote down the answers the residents gave us, and if they said "yes I consider myself to be negro" "I'm not an African American, I'm negro" "yes, negro/black" or "yes I'm a negro", we checked the appropriate box. If people still use certain terms to refer to themselves, who has a right to get rid of the terminology? Isn't that itself a little bit of bigotry, control, and erasure? I don't like the term myself, I much dislike a lot of racial terms to be honest, but if I am not part of the group, who the fuck am I to judge?
