No. That's not what he's saying. And it's not a slur for everyone just because it is for me and you.

Some Black people want to be called Black. Some want to be called POC. Some want to be called by their nationality or their heritage ethnicity.

Do you know what term Martin Luther King Jr used?

But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.

And that term very quickly became offensive despite being the most commonly accepted term at the time.

It's also very regional. S. African Black people used the word "coloured" far longer than Americans did. (Do they still?)

The point is, how can any one member of a minority gatekeep terminology? Language evolves. The younger generation doesn't have the traumatizing experience with the word "queer" that you and I do. Relax a little. Let them describe themselves how they want.

Sure, you should gently and politely correct them if they use a term for you that you don't like, but who are you to go white-knighting some random interviewee on NPR who may or may not have had a problem with the word? He's more than capable of speaking for himself, I'm sure.