What kind of color is "Asian" anyway?
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Racial genetics need to be studied, not shades of skin. Also physiognomy as many have condemned as racist, clearly has some basis in reality.
Michael Jackson was still racially "black" the entire time. Which makes the point many defining race by colors is confusing to begin with. Maybe we should go back to older classifications as skin color changes in the sun and race/genetics is set in stone.
The problem is blacks have to have the name you call them change every decade as they keep dragging it in the mud through negative behavior and their name ends up a slur, I won't even get started on the term jew (not trying to be edgy or offensive, this is our reality).
Niggers, coloreds, negroes, blacks, African-Americans, POC, BIPOC, it'll be something else soon enough.
I suspect 80960KA's assessment of the reason why is right on the money as well, you can see it happen with other words that shouldn't have any negative connotation, such as "Mexican".
See also "retarded", used to be a medical term, then it was the common vernacular, now it's a "slur". "Special" sorta became a slur too, even though they literally made it to be sensitive. It turns out being retarded is the thing that's bad, not the word itself.