Conservative radio host Dennis Prager complains he isn’t allowed to call black people ‘colored’ or ‘negroes’ anymore

CONSERVATIVE radio host Dennis Prager has been slammed for complaining he isn’t allowed to call black people “colored” or negroes” anymore.

Prager, 71, said on Friday morning that he’s “going to start a movement to change the name Native Americans — not to mock Native Americans but mock people who change names all the time.”

“How many names have blacks gone through in my lifetime? Colored? Negro? African American? Black? Four different titles for the same human being.”

The host continued, according to Media Matters: “You know the NAACP is still the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.”

“And then African American — that changed, too. Does that have a dash, hyphen, or not. I don’t remember what was connoted by having a hyphen or not.”

In February, Media Matters reported that Prager complained he wasn’t allowed to use another racist insult.

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In February, Prager said ‘it is idiotic that you cannot say the N-word’[/caption]

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One Twitter user compared Prager to ‘the guy who goes to a Mexican restaurant and when the waiter says ‘hola!’ he goes home and blogs about how it’s anti-American’[/caption]

“It is idiotic that you cannot say the N-word,’ he said on a show earlier this year.

“The left has made it impossible to say the N-word any longer. That’s disgusting, it’s a farce. It’s the only word that you can’t say in the English language.”

“Of course, you should never call anybody the N-word, that’s despicable. But to say the word? You cannot even say that the word is despicable. You have to say ‘the N-word.’”

Prager was slammed after both remarks, but on Twitter on Friday, one user wrote: “Is Dennis Prager OK?”

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, tweeted: “as always, dennis prager can say whatever he wants.”

“If he wants to go up to a bunch of dudes and ask about “colored folks” no one is going to stop him. but, *if he’s going to do that*, he should be ready to square up.”

Another Twitter user wrote: “Dennis Prager is the guy who goes to a Mexican restaurant and when the waiter says ‘hola!’ he goes home and blogs about how it’s anti-American.”

“Never understood the impulse to want to go to the mat to call someone, or call a group of people, something they’ve asked you not to call them,” another said.