If you go to the NAACP website, you will find a page containing a press statement from January 29, 2020, entitled “NAACP Issues Statement: Our Vote is Not For Sale.” The first sentence of the article reads:
“The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) released the following statement regarding Trump allies handing out cash to black voters….”
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-issues-statement-our-vote-not-sale
Two elements of this sentence stand out. First, the original name of the organization is fully stated: “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…” And secondly, the press release uses the old-fashioned term “black voters,” not “Black voters.”
How times have changed! Just two years and four months ago, the NAACP was willing to use the name it was born with. Nowadays, the popular trend is to eliminate the name and just leave the acronym: NPR, YMCA, AARP, BP, KFC. Yet those of us of a certain age can still probably say what each of these acronyms stands for – or, rather, used to stand for: National Public Radio, Young Men’s Christian Association, American Association of Retired Persons, British Petroleum, and, of course, “finger-lickin’-good” Kentucky Fried Chicken!
Apparently the word “colored” is now considered so heinous that it can’t even be mentioned in polite society.
