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We 'd both been impressed by a lead " Talk of the Town " article in the New Yorker which said , bottom line , that " Negroes " ( yup , this had been written back in the ' 60 's ) had a perfectly rational , deeply embedded knowledge of injustice which would take forever to erase , to which my friend added , " And they wo n't even want to erase it for a long , long time ... Maritza Lugo was released from '' Manto Negro '' in April 2001 . The presence of the " bad Negros " demanded a white solution . One of the scenes in " Mockingbird " that deals with race , in which Atticus coaches his kids to use the word " Negro " instead of an expletive , is embarrassing . And he says , " Should the pretended friends of the Negroes " - the pretended friends ! Lincoln , the man who opposed the exclusion of slavery in the new territories with his perversely righteous and dubiously motivated declaration , " A house divided against itself cannot stand , " and who declared himself to be personally opposed to racial equality , ended up abolishing slavery for the whole nation four years later as a political expediency brought about by a poorly conducted , ongoing civil war , notwithstanding his earlier belief that while " Negroes " should enjoy the right to life , liberty and pursuit of happiness promised to all men by the Declaration of Independence , the extinction of slavery could only be a gradual and lengthy process , with no near-term target date . We are not " Negroids " or " Negroes " ( read in Necro-dead , or " knee-gro " ) . But " Negroes " did have social clubs , financial institutions , schools , churches , some land , so in that respect there was hesitation with change ; there was a risk of losing what little you had . They persuaded Homer Plessey , who was only one-eighth '' Negro '' and fair-complected , to test it . The only inhabitants are marines , and some negroes liberated from slave-ships , who are paid and victualled by government . The novelist Norman Mailer also attempted to define this new vision of U.S. culture , setting forth in his essay " The White Negro " ( published in Dissent in 1957 ) an apocalyptic treatise of the white beat hipster as a psychopathic variant of the illiterate black . When Italian , Irish , Polish , Jewish , Greek , and Slavic workers poured into the United States , they were resoundingly classed as " colored , " " yellow , " or " Negro " in dominant discourses and practices . Mills , who is white , and Berta Linson , who is African-American , were married August 2 , the first state-sanctioned interracial couple in Mississippi ( though the state statute forbidding " the marriage of a white person and a Negro " was not repealed until 1987 ) . When I was growing up I heard terms such as " colored " then " negros " to " afro-american " then " black " to " african american " then the ridiculous " people of color " which I know was meant to be inclusive of any non-white .