# Is "Negro" a racist term? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 21, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-negro-a-racist-term/120072 "2002-07-21T07:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-negro-a-racist-term/120072/81 "2014-11-18T15:12:19Z")
Joy Behar thinks so; Jim Norton doesn’t… [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/17/watch-joy-behars-reaction-when-opie-with-jim-norton-co-host-politely-pushes-back-defends-rush-limbaugh-as-not-racist/](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/17/watch-joy-behars-reaction-when-opie-with-jim-norton-co-host-politely-pushes-back-defends-rush-limbaugh-as-not-racist/) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-negro-a-racist-term/120072/82 "2014-11-18T16:12:06Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Tanned ones, literally, and in origin said as a joke . The brown ones would be _los marrones_. I did not know that. I know that, here in Texas, a LOT of Mexicans are very color conscious when it comes to their kids. Fair skin is preferred, and a baby daughter who’s dark-skinned is called, with a bit of disappointment, “a morenita.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-negro-a-racist-term/120072/83 "2014-11-19T18:03:53Z")
She’s morenita if she has dark hair, too, which would encompass the immense majority of the world. The preference for fair skin, specially in women, is very old and widespread, though: that’s something in which the weird datapoint is the now-almost-dead preference for super-tanned, or that other one for orange skin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-negro-a-racist-term/120072.md?page=4)