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The Independent
A recently-updated U.S. Army handbook has been found to include “Negro” as an approved term to use when describing Black people. The unclassified document outlines the military’s “Army Command Policy,” known as regulation AR 600-20, and features a set of racial “definitions” in a chapter on equal opportunities.
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Sandwiched between descriptions of what “prejudice” and “racism” mean in the context of the armed forces, a paragraph on “(B)lack or African American” reads: “A person having origins in any of the (B)lack racial groups of Africa. Terms such as ‘Haitian’ or ‘Negro’ can be used in addition to ‘Black’ or ‘African American’. The U.S. army has confirmed that the term remains in use in the document, which was revised and republished as recently as October .
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Soldiers of the U.S. Army 23rd Chemical Battalion. (PHOTO COURTESY LEE JINMAN/AP)[/caption]
Sandwiched between descriptions of what “prejudice” and “racism” mean in the context of the armed forces, a paragraph on “(B)lack or African American” reads: “A person having origins in any of the (B)lack racial groups of Africa. Terms such as ‘Haitian’ or ‘Negro’ can be used in addition to ‘Black’ or ‘African American’. The U.S. army has confirmed that the term remains in use in the document, which was revised and republished as recently as October .
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