On Sep 28, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Camille Cosby - wife of Bill - was on television being
> interviewed by a television deity (Barbara Walters? I
> don't remember).
>
> She was talking about an exciting new development in
> language use: "Black" was retired, behold "African
> American"!
Hmm. Adolph Reed's explanation is that "one day, Jesse Jackson called a press conference" to declare that from henceforth and forevermore it'd be "African American." Maybe they had a conference call or something.
Doug