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I have had a number of friends who were blacks. Most of the time when I use the term it is in the context of describing how someone looks. Oh look at the cute black girl, or look at the hot brunette girl. To me the color of a person's skin is as important as whether they have a blue dress on or green dress. It's more a way to describe how they look and not a way to put someone down or catagorize them.
My grandfather is a bit predjudiced and makes racial comments mostly because when he was a trucker before World War II he went through Chicago and was beat up by a gang which was made up of blacks. Since then though he has learned to accept them and golfs or goes to dinner often with a man from his church who is black.
My friends in college who were black told me they prefer the term "black". It wasn't a big deal to them if you weren't saying it in a derogatory way or in a blanket catagorizing statement.
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