Posted on 09/05/2009 7:22:47 PM PDT by TheMadKing
The NAACP issued a statement in full support of President Obama's embattled Green jobs czar, Van Jones. The NAACP further called Glenn Beck a "right wing extremist," called controversies over Van Jones' past "diversionary tactics," and questioned advertisers' sponsorship of Beck's show.
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Right wing extremists FOUNDED the NAACP....figure it out.
It was pretty common in the sixties, and was replaced in polite reference by "Negro" (which had also been in use prior to the sixties), "Black", "Afro-American", and "African-American", in roughly that order. "Person of color" was also used, along with numerous impolite references which need not be cited here.
The irony of usage is that everyone has some 'color', whatever it is, and that "African American" excludes people whose ancestors were born in Africa but who were devoid of negroid characteristics.
If we are ever to have a society which truly regards one another regardless of race, the labels should be tossed, but even then some description of melanin content would be present anyway, just as hair or eye color is used to differentiate between people in a physical description.
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