Word: negros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston magazine ignored this when they published their recent feature on W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., titled "Head Negro in Charge." The outcry over that term that came from Reverend Eugene Rivers shouldn't come as a surprise...
...offended me more than the poor title choice. "As chief interpreter of the black experience for white America," the article begins, "Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. may be the most influential black man in America today....In the parlance of black activists, he has become the new Head Negro in Charge...
...essay, "The Crisis of Black Leadership," West writes, "The time is past for black political and intellectual leaders to pose as the voice for black America....The days of brokering for the black turf--of posing as the Head Negro in Charge (H.N.I.C.) are over...
Eleanor's positions on civil rights were far in advance of her time: 10 years before the Supreme Court rejected the "separate but equal" doctrine, Eleanor argued that equal facilities were not enough: "The basic fact of segregation, which warps and twists the lives of our Negro population, [is] itself discriminatory...
Would you call anyone "Head Negro in Charge"? Even if subject Henry Louis Gates Jr. was not offended, not a sensitive call...