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Janet M. Swisher (swisher@cs.utexas.edu) :
> A friend who is a Native Texan grew up with the term "nigger-rigged",
> .. referring to the ingenuity of blacks folks with few resources.
> In this more enlightened age, my friend instead uses the term
> "African-American engineering".
> (I cite this for its linguistic interest -- no slur is intended
> against any African-Americans who are professional engineers.)

Of course.  But since this is sci.lang, let's shoot for a little
precision and even-handedness in thought and language.  The
"enlightened" renaming of US citizens of Negroid phenotype/genotype as
"*African*-Americans" might also be quite annoying to Americans whose
roots lie in the northernmost quarter of Africa, e.g.  Morrocco,
Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt.

Does "North American" exclude the Inuit ?

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tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada