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Mentioning a 1958 article to justify your racism really doesn't help.

"Abetting the concealment campaign is the feeling shared by many whites that it is unfair, inflammatory and even un-American to talk about Negro crime." This is the first sentence of the article, dude, seriously.

It's really sad to see more and more far right racists on HN, this place used to be filled with smart people.

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"Negro" was the word in common use by people of all races at the time. Wikipedia:

>Negro was accepted as normal, both as exonym and endonym, until the late 1960s, after the later Civil Rights Movement. One example is Martin Luther King Jr. self-identification as Negro in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963.

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