From the article: The word “n-----”, which Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing during the Fifties and Sixties, has been almost entirely expunged from the revised texts.
If you want your James Bond books that have the hard r n-word, they’re still there for you on eBay, undoubtedly.
From what I can tell the only reference with "the hard R" is not in reference to anybody in particular but rather as a chapter title that is in reference to Harlem and is a direct call back to the famous Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten.
https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/lcdrg/appendix/bla...
If you had read the article you linked, you'd have known that the United Negro College Fund emphasizes its initials rather than its full name. "In 2008, reflecting shifting attitudes toward the word Negro in its name, the UNCF shifted from using its full name to using only its initials, releasing a new logo with the initials alone and featuring their slogan more prominently."
Look on their website. Their official history does not mention the term "negro" once.
https://uncf.org/the-latest/75-years-strong-highlights-from-...
You will be unable to find in at least the last 30 years, any publications from the UNCF that use the word "negro" to refer to black people.
> That's a lazy counterargument
So the real question is, what made you make your initial comment in response to mine? Did you misread it?
You mean someone decided to take offense. It's literally equivalent to "Asian" in that it describes a geographic origin. And negro, as pointed out, was preferred by MLK himself, yet we're just supposed to believe it's offensive because that's what we're told.
What this is is a show of power, picking random words and deciding they're offensive, and making an example of anyone that doesn't dance to this tune.
That's not the only reason the US Federal government decided to stop its use in official documents. It's also a terribly inaccurate term - exactly WHERE in the East are you talking about? India, which is in the East, is far different from South Korea, which is also in the East. I'm sure that people in those disparate regions would much rather not be lumped together in a single category.
It's a lazy, outdated term used by lazy people.
I was alive in the 80s and 90s, nobody was mad about "oriental", especially and specifically immigrant communities that don't care about American culture war. It's just fashion.
> It's also a terribly inaccurate term