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I am not calling it anything!  I am not the one who makes the rules about what words mean and which words are 'bad' and which are not.  If everyone else in the world - to include blacks themselves, think the word is 'okay', then who the heck are you to say otherwise?  While you may personally not like the word, that does not change its meaning or definition.  Negro is not a racist word.  It is not the same as nigger.  Not even close.  While you can take issue with my behavior, that has nothing to do with what that word means in American society.  And if you feel that I am breaking ""the rules"", then by all means, report it, and whatever happens happens.  I'm a big boy.  I can take it.  But that does not have anything to do with your trying to make the word negro into something that it isn't.  When you do that you do a great disservice to all negros or black persons who have fought for equality and who proudly use that word in the names of their organizations.   "