Black people

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The touchy subject of

Race

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Black people is a label used to refer to individuals of various ethnicities, whose skin tends to be darker than some other races. Like most such labels, it is completely artificial, frequently inaccurate, not particularly helpful, and horribly divisive. However, it can also provide people who have shared historical experiences of systematic discrimination and marginalization with a common rallying point and a structure around which to build a collective sense of identity and pride. So it's a mixed bag.

A more politically correct term in the United States would be "African Americans." One, however, cannot apply this term outside of the American continents, as it would be inaccurate, unless the individual in question was at least from either side of the Americas.

Less politically correct terms include "nigger," among other dumb pejoratives.

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