Where is your source from? RE: "October 13, 1932 - April 4, 2017 Nick Beck - university professor, sports writer, book and Hollywood memorabilia collector, Budd Schulberg's bibliographer, trivia buff and connoisseur of fine mixed spirits - " The reference is from a person who is not from the culture or community to decide what is offensive or not offensive. This is a poor source to make such an inflammatory statement.
" The use of this term began in the United States of America shortly after the Atlantic Slave Trade began and its use was widespread, derogatory and disrespectful. After the post Civil Rights Era, the term is now considered to be both outdated and offensive in the United States." First L'esperance (talk) 21:30, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
- It's a 400-page book published by a university press. It's not an inflammatory statement anyway. Drmies (talk) 21:35, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
- It doesn't matter that it is a 400 page book - it was written by someone who is not from the descendent of African slavery - foundational African mixed-race community and has no right to make such a statement. Mulatto is a legit ethnonym that has been used in my culture for years and is NOT considered offensive - for some reason it is being brutally attacked as an offensive word. The source should be removed as it is irrelevant to the article of mixed-race African descendants of slavery. First L'esperance (talk) 21:45, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
- That's not how it works. First of all, we go by reliable sources and this one looks like it is. I don't know what your culture is and it doesn't matter: one doesn't have to be mulatto to be able to write intelligibly about the topic. Again, your culture--the sentence is clearly about usage in the United States. There is reason to believe (because I just went through a bunch of books) that in other countries that may be different, but if that's the case, add it, with a reliable source. And no, this is not a "brutal attack" on a word. If it is offensive in the US, then the sentence is a factually correct statement. Drmies (talk) 22:21, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
Done Thepharoah17 (talk) 18:41, 3 August 2025 (UTC)