Do y'all remember when black folks were Afro-American?

Afro-American.

When I was young, Afro-American was everywhere.

Like, it was on the news.

It was in our textbooks.

In the second grade, right, our teacher was Washington Tukas.

On a field trip to what was then known as the Afro-American Cultural and Historical

Museum in Philadelphia, like, Afro-American was so official that it was in the name of

the Black People Museum.

And then, like, it was just gone.

Like, one day somebody said, all right, we off that.

We're Afro-American now.

So if you belong to this micro-generation of, like, older millennials, you might have

felt like you hallucinated that whole Afro-American moment.

And I was thinking about that as it pertained to this controversy in 2013, when the sense

of decided that it was going to drop Negro from its official designations on the census

form, right?

So, a lot of people's initial reaction was, well, first off, census.

Why is Negro still even on this form to begin with?

But if you look at someone like my grandmother, right, like, in her lifetime, depending on the

political moment, she would have been colored and Negro in Black lowercase and capital B.

Afro-American for a hot minute, yes?

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