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"African Americans"?
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Posted on 12/03/2014 8:34:38 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains

Even the world's most hard-core, fire-breathing conservatives have me baffled. I'll paraphrase John Stossel in harsher language than he used (no conservative he, but he did address the issue) "If you use the term 'African American' you are either gutless or stupid. Gutless because you are afraid to "offend" those looking to be offended, stupid because you've not stopped to ask yourself what the hell this new term is all about."

Why do SO MANY conservatives, even here on this site and even Rush Limbaugh, use this term?

Blacks invented the term to wield power over nonblacks. If I force you to call me by some regal-sounding, magisterial title with 10,000 syllables, then I am wielding power over you. Period.

On the day that I demand to be called a European American of Caucasoid Descent with Scotch/Irish Roots (Roots? Get it? That's funny!) then I'll start using the AA term.

Just how low must you bow when using the term AA, and are you allowed to look the AA in the face when speaking to him?

I mean, I do realize that "they" were surveying the building sites of the pyramids they built from the gliders they invented thousands of years ago, while lowly whites were still stabbing each other over grubs in the forest, but come on!


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To: Doctor 2Brains

I don’t know. I think it’s stupid. Also annoying.


21 posted on 12/03/2014 8:45:23 AM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: Dutchboy88

I thought that we Irish-Americans were the Potato Heads.


22 posted on 12/03/2014 8:46:03 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I’m Irish, not a potato head. A drunk Mick, perhaps, but not a potato head.


23 posted on 12/03/2014 8:48:02 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Mears
Yeah, I guess some people have to make sure that everybody knows that they know that it's a commonwealth and not a state.
24 posted on 12/03/2014 8:48:34 AM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

I prefer and use the term “American-Africans” as it is more descriptive of the situation.


25 posted on 12/03/2014 8:52:00 AM PST by strings6459
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To: BenLurkin

My mother used to call me square-headed Dutchman or hard-headed Dutchman.
Dad came over on the boat and Checked In. Haven’t been able to determine if he entered through Ellis Island or ,I suspect, Chicago.


26 posted on 12/03/2014 8:55:53 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
If we’re going to use that one, just call them colored people IMHO.

I may be wrong, so someone jump in if this isn't the case ... colored people have mixed blood, they are not 100% negroid in origin. Personally I use, correctly or incorrectly, the terms black, colored, and high-yellow based on skin tone. Occasionally, I use other terms as well, but I won't use those terms on here.

27 posted on 12/03/2014 8:58:26 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: Doctor 2Brains
Call me:


28 posted on 12/03/2014 9:00:24 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Dutchboy88
or you can substitute Potato Head

How about... Tater Salad?

29 posted on 12/03/2014 9:00:36 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Dutchboy88
I should be called:

Native American, Irish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, North African, Middle Easterner, Polynesian, East Asian, Caucasian.

30 posted on 12/03/2014 9:01:54 AM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Good questions.

Should be noted that “African American,” if it had a logical meaning, would refer primarily to immigrants from Africa who had become Americans. Same as we refer to Italian-Americans.

For all other groups such designation loses force each generation, and before too long they’re just “Americans” with funny names.

It would also refer to anybody from Africa, which would include Egyptians, Libyans and white South Africans.

But what they mean is a racial term, not a geographical one. I wish they’d just say what they mean.


31 posted on 12/03/2014 9:01:55 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Blacks asked to be called “Black” in the 1970s, rather than the then pervasive “Negro”.

Fair enough. I can call people what they want to be called.

Once.

“African American” is just a fresh name to escape the stink they left on “Black” with their behavior.

Liberals are not “Progressive.” Blacks are not “African American.”

Own your stink, jerks.


32 posted on 12/03/2014 9:02:12 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

I hate the term people of color. All “people of color” have brown eyes and brown hair. Only people of noncolor have different color eyes and hair


33 posted on 12/03/2014 9:03:31 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: ConservativeInPA

If we want to be super accurate with respects to the true color of skin, brown is more accurate than black, is it not?


34 posted on 12/03/2014 9:04:16 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: trisham

Not if your ancestors were Orange from Ulster.


35 posted on 12/03/2014 9:04:17 AM PST by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

It’s a trap, like all other words used about race. If you use it or don’t use it and are White, you are subject to condemnation.


36 posted on 12/03/2014 9:05:54 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

If Charlize Theron robbed a bank, would the police put out an APB for “6 foot tall African American female”?

Why not?

She is an American citizen from South Africa. She is an African-American.


37 posted on 12/03/2014 9:07:35 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Oh, refer to their tribe as they wish to be called.

Eventually whatever term they ask you to use will be considered “offensive” and they’ll change it.


38 posted on 12/03/2014 9:08:51 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: clintonh8r

Yep, I saw a story about some black guys from Britain. The reporter referred to them as African American.


40 posted on 12/03/2014 9:09:19 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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