What about 'Buffalo Soldier'?Somehow, this is going to cause street riots. I just know it.
Well, if they’re going to make Spanish the official language of the US military, they’re going to have to accept the word, “negro.”
Just-Us Brothers will be there soon enough
Negro, black, Black, colored, Afro-American, African-American, African American - why all the fuss over a name? Why not fix the problems instead? The Klan party is working hard to keep black people down, as they have for their entire history, but it would be simple to remove the government incentives that destroy black families, and that would allow them to succeed on merit rather than by whining about being victims. I’m disgusted by the racists (black and white) who profit by exploiting blacks who are being harmed so severely by liberal policies.
Caucasians have never demanded a new description every year since the 60's, so why should anyone else need it?
I think anyone wouldn’t mind whatever name is used so long as it is intended to be respectful, regardless of the period of the term.
I’d be pissed if I were black and someone called me “African”. I am white and would be pissed if someone called me “Irish” or “British”, my two heritages. I am an American and neither Irish nor British are my race.
I figure if a group wants to be called a certain thing, I’m willing to make that change once in my life.
So, in the ‘70s it was a big request by the Black community: They wanted to be called “Black”.
Okay. I can do that.
Now they want to be called “African American?” I refuse. Indeed, I suspect they want the change because their collective behavior has been so bad they left a stink on “Black.”
Kinda like “Liberal” and now “Progressive”. I’m waiting for their next branding exercise since 0bama has put such a stink on “Progressive.”
I like to call them soldiers.
"To tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch."
Negro is not a bad word. Whoever says it is is a racist.
Can somebody remind us again... why is the word BLACK acceptable but not NEGRO ( which means BLACK in Spanish )?
Is “mulatto” an acceptable term for the Commander-in-Chief, then?
Should I be upset by being called "Eggshell" rather than "White"? (some days I could legitimately be called "off-white" as in "that white boy is a little 'off'! ")
You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay...just don't call me late for dinner!
I read an old piece today by Roger Ebert, reviewing “Night of the Living Dead” when it first came out in the 60s, and it was strange to see him use the word “negro” so often in reference to the protagonist of the film. The really odd part was that Ebert didn’t just mention that the lead actor was a negro, he continued to refer to him throughout the article as “the negro”, as if that was his defining characteristic (he referred to other characters by such characteristics as “the teenagers”, “the mother”, “the father”). Now, at the end of the piece, he does refer to him as the “hero”, but it made me wonder, why he couldn’t refer to him by that name throughout the article?
You could justify by the standards of the day using the word to mention the significant fact that the main character was a black man, but to make that his defining characteristic really seemed to me to show Ebert as a bit of a racist, at least back then. Here’s the article, check it out:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-living-dead-1968
“Soy negro. No disparo.” —The Alamo (2004)
However, the Post reported that Smith, a black woman from the West Indies, said she only used the word in reference to the color black. She then reportedly explained to her students that it is not a derogatory term and that the Spanish word for a black person is “moreno.”"