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Barbershop Buzz on 'Negro-gate'
8:11 AM on 01/15/2010
First we saw the word on the 2010 census last week.
Then news of Senator Majority leader Harry Reid' comment broke. He called Barack Obama "light-skinned with 'no Negro dialect'.
Now everyone is using a word we thought was left for the history book.
Is there a double standard when it comes to race and politics?
Does the word "Negro" have any place in today's society?
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