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The niggers and darkies (where again the primarily adjectival word is the less offensive) of slavery became the Negroes and Coloreds of Jim Crow and are the African Americans and blacks of today.
Du Bois in 1903, describing, in The Souls of Black Folk , a "double consciousness" that afflicted, yet graced, the coloreds of his day.
Cynics cite the opportune timing of coloreds' rediscovered blackness now that the black-majority government has instituted policies helping those who faired worst under apartheid.
Their presence, like that of the "coloreds" in old South Africa, wouldn't subvert racialism; it would reinforce it, by fleshing out the black-white caste system.
A WP front page story reports on the acknowledgment of former South African 'coloreds' that they are indeed black.