From Black to Colored

One of the songs discussed in class that stood out to me the most was James Brown's, "Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud", because this particular song made the word, "black", a positive term for African Americans to identify themselves with. 

In an interview back in 2003 Brown stated, “I clearly remember we were calling ourselves colored, and after the song, we were calling ourselves black. The song showed even people to that day that lyrics and music and a song can change society." To Brown, the word black and colored were not one in the same. He didn’t identify himself as colored or a Negro. According to his definitions the word Negro and colored has negative connotations. To him, a colored was a scared person, a Negro was someone that was making it in     the system but wanted to be white but a black man has pride in his race and wants to make it mean something.