If us whites are supposed to now call blacks "African Americans," then why aren't us whites insisting to be called European Americans or at the very least Caucasian?
Until we are called one of those two, I will keep on referring to those of dark browned skin as "blacks."

And what is wrong with the word "cripple?"
It is not a put down at all. It's just describing how someone is.
And have you noticed how what was just fine somehow becomes a mouthful?
We go from "cripple" to "handicapped" to "disable" and now to "differently able."
The only exception I can think of is from "midget" to "dwarf."
And who decides all this? Others who somehow feel like the ones with the labels are offended when they probably weren't in the first place. In other words, a bunch of pansy, guilty feeling white liberals who somehow made themselves the spokespeople of all the races and groups.
I mean, Indians have pride in thinking of themselves as Indians and to call them Native Americans or American Indians is not needed. So who the Fuck tells us what they like to be called?

Funny how the Political Correctness Nazis are liberal guilty feeling white people who insist on the way we talk to be respectful and yet not any of them come out against I'll-Bomb-Ya bombing and where civilians are killed.
Actions speak louder than words and showing Political Correct actions by not bombing others is more important than just speaking respectfully of someone.