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私もニグロはまずいと思います。
ブラックでさえも最近は聞きません。

Ethnicを書き込むアンケート用紙などを見ても、
ほとんどが"African American"という言い方ですよね。
私の知っている黒人女性はコスタリカ系ですので正確にはAfrican Americanでは
ないけど、表示がそれしかないので用紙ではそれにマークしていると言っていました。

今 Wikipediaでみたら下記の様に買いてありました。

Negro is a term referring to people of Black ancestry. Prior to the shift in the lexicon of American and worldwide classification of race and ethnicity in the late 1960s, the appellation was accepted as a normal neutral formal term both by those of Black African descent as well as non-African blacks. Now it is often considered an ethnic slur although the term is considered archaic and is not common as a racist slur. The term is still used in some contexts for historical reasons such as in the name of the United Negro College Fund. "Negro" means "black" in Spanish, Portuguese, and ancient Italian; all of these derive from the Latin niger (i.e. "black").

Modern synonyms in common use include the following:

    * Black
    * Black African
    * African American (in U.S.A.)

"Negro" superseded "colored" as the most polite terminology, at a time when "black" was still generally regarded as negative.