NAACP Supports Van Jones, Calls Beck a 'Right Wing Extremist'

Digital Journal ^ | 8/5/2009 | Johnny Simpson

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Hey NAACP idiots...

Right wing extremists FOUNDED the NAACP....figure it out.

[jmaroneps37]

They are a fraudulent bitter anti American bunch and have been for years. Jim Crow is stuffed and sitting in their lobby like a “Week Bernie's” type deal I think.

[Smokin' Joe]

When is the last time anybody has called an "African American" a colored person?

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.