Talk:Río Negro (Argentina)

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Why not commence the article with "Black River" rather than with "Negro River"? The former is an accurate translation of the Spanish "Río Negro", the latter -- which (to American readers, at least) is freighted with inappropriate (and unhappy) racial overtones -- is not.