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!
No apologies needed, my FRiend. I heard Ron do this on TV some time back and laughed my, well, some parts fell off. Thanks for the repeat laugh, though.
So is Mrs. Jon Kery.
That’s what I don’t get...
If Charlize Theron was standing beside Sheniqua from Detroit... the PC police would call Sheniqua the African American and would call Charlize the white woman.
Charlize is the real African American. Sheniqua is a black lady born in Detroit.
I would like to see, in a interview on any random news show.. when they refer to someone as an African American... for another pundit on the show to chime in a say, “African American? Really? I did not know that. What part of Africa were they born in?” with a straight face.
Wonder what they would call me, an Irish-English-German-Cajun mix of a mut? A Red Neck?
It is really jarring to hear it when it is so nonsensical. I was listening to a recording of a P. G. Wodehouse novel and was really surprised to hear ‘African American’ instead of whatever the original word was. Particularly since this was a novel set in 1930s Britain.
To me it is intellectually dishonest and an insult to the author when text is changed to make it politically correct, or for any other reason.
On the first day of one of the classes my friend was enrolled in, the professor asked everyone to introduce themselves and describe themselves ethnically.
Heads just about exploded when he described himself as African American.
I'm just a happy U5a1b1b(mtDNA) Haplogroup-American.
Bought my wings at Gliders R Us - (formerly "We B Gliders.)
I call white, “white” and black, “black”
and the only one who is black in America that I will call “African American” is Obama.
You could skip the “American” part in his case.
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