Posted on 10/20/2017 3:47:40 PM PDT by markomalley
Well there goes
Zebra
Oreo
Butterscotch
Extra Creamy nugget....
It seems to me that people who say that the term mulatto is offensive are being offensive to mulattoes since it clearly infers that there is something wrong with people who have one white and one black parent.
Good God, don’t care at all.
Mulatto - half black, half white
Quatroon - 1/4 black, 3/4 white/other
Octaroon - 1/8 black, 7/8 white/other. As I understand it, this would be the group with the “high yaller” designation and are usually distinguished by also having freckles.
Some quadroon complain about the term?
And “octoroon”—shades of Frank Yerby and the placage of New Orleans.
There’s always the ‘paper bag’ test.
Back in the old days, when grocery stores used paper bags instead of plastic, the bags were a very light brown. Blacks that were lighter than the bags were high yeller, and had greater status than the ‘blue gums’.
-PJ
We had a Marxist Mulatto Halfrican Un-American running the Country for eight years.
Marxist = Duh (he is a Democrat after all) = TRUE
Mulatto = Mixed Race = TRUE
Halfrican = He had an American (sort of) White Mother which means he is ONLY half African American = TRUE
Un-American = Duh (he is a Democrat after all) = TRUE.
President Pickaninny was ruled out years ago.
Oh please
Mulatto is what Haitians themselves use as a term
It’s a cornerstone of Haitian vicious history
I’m with Tapper
And I still use the word
Not to mention high yellow or redbone or halfling
Oh the horror
Jake Tapper’s “family friend,” Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (Chelsea’s MIL):
(Dead link)
November 21, 1993
Tapper had read in the newspaper that Margolies-Mezvinsky, a family friend, was running for Congress. He called the house, and she immediately invited him over.
“You know, when you think about a political campaign, you picture this giant, organized machine,” Tapper said. “I got over there, and it was just Marjorie and two women sitting there talking.”
Tapper helped her with speeches, planning events, and “fell into” working with the press. After her primary victory, he joined her staff full time, where he has gained a reputation for bombarding media outlets with forests of shiny fax paper.
“I was seeing the fax machine in the beginning, but it was never a serious relationship. I really fell in love with my fax modem,” he quips.
After the election, Tapper asked Margolies-Mezvinsky on a train ride to Washington if he could be her press secretary. She agreed.
Margolies-Mezvinsky says she has known Tapper “since he was in the womb” and sometimes has to remind herself not to act like a doting relative. But she says Tapper instantly proved his worth early on in the campaign with his resourcefulness combined with a healthy sense of humor.
“I can’t say enough nice things about him without sounding like his mother,” Margolies-Mezvinsky said. “I had been in the media for 25 years, and I had gotten dozens of calls from friends after I won who wanted to work as press secretary. When Jake came to me and said, ‘I want to go to Washington,’ it was crystal clear to me that, despite all these people I had worked with in the field, he would be wonderful here, he would be just fine.”
Apparently you can’t say Oriental anymore either.
“Zebra”
Paging George Jefferson...
This is a theme in THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE, included in the paperback edition of LETTERS FROM THE EARTH, which I located with difficulty because the spine is so tattered!
The theme is expressed succinctly as follows, “One is obliged to concede that in true loftiness of character, Man cannot claim to approach even the meanest of the Higher Animals.”
Of course this is a reversal of the common reference to the “lower animals”.
A MOSQUITO, MY LIBIDO, YEAH!!!
DAH DAH DADADADAH DUH DUH DUH DUDUDUDUDH
I would imagine Twain’s attitude stemmed in part from his rejection of the Bible. Idk where the idea that man was created in God’s image would come from if not the Bible.
“So I’m assuming that ‘quadroon’ is out as well?”
Please don’t tell me we’re going to have to ditch “griff” and “octaroon” as well.
I prefer, “halfrican”.
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