away from any slur (Negro and Nigger were too close). For a long time it was the unofficial title of of the ethnicity of people from the United States who descended from Africans and had been enslaved on this soil. It worked just fine until large numbers of people from the diaspora started to come to the US in the 60s. I get the fact that we are not the only black people, but we are the only people who chose Black, for a time, as our demonym. I'm all for it.