Correct. And this is used by the multi-cultis to their great advantage. We need to take the language back.
Crybullies gonna bully.
Yeah, having a hard timing working myself up into a lather over this one.
Well, actually, when you start acting like that and nitpicking over nothing, you cause the very thing you are complaining about. Having a fairly positive viewpoint toward many blacks I know, including the couple who bought me lunch today, you make me wonder if they are my friends at all if they think like you do. You’re doing nothing but dividing people.
Changing language is how the left advances the agenda.
What about these offensive phrases? They’ve got to go too!
white elephant
white lie
white collar crime
white dwarf
Just return to the anthropologically correct term for the race and stop with the cultural trend of the week idiocy.
Why be African before American ?
Honestly..simp!y looking at their names defines them.
Where sre all the linguists who insist they are descriptivists instead of prescriptivists and only report what the language is and not what is “should be”? Crickets?
How about Film Noir?
Sorry ,thats what means. Sucks to be you.
These people are silly and have too much time on their hands.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/black
adjective, black·er, black·est.
lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness:
a black night.
(sometimes initial capital letter)
pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
African American.
soiled or stained with dirt:
That shirt was black within an hour.
gloomy; pessimistic; dismal:
a black outlook.
deliberately; harmful; inexcusable:
a black lie.
boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening:
black words; black looks.
(of coffee or tea) without milk or cream.
without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked:
His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment:
a black mark on one’s record.
marked by disaster or misfortune:
black areas of drought; Black Friday.
wearing black or dark clothing or armor:
the black prince.
based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life:
black comedy; black humor.
(of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc.:
Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
illegal or underground:
The black economy pays no taxes.
showing a profit; not showing any losses:
the first black quarter in two years.
deliberately false or intentionally misleading:
black propaganda.
British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
(of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.
I had a high school algebra teacher in the middle 70s who lamented that she couldnt use the word queer anymore to describe a mathematical oddity...
They should change the dictionary definition of stupid, because if stupid people read the definition of stupid, they may develop low self esteem , get depressed or even commit suicide
Lets drop all references to colors. European ancestry, African ancestry, Asian ancestry, Native American ancestry. Stick with geography. And dont ask anyone which race they are because so many people are mixed and they are forced to choose the race that gives the most privileges. Guess what, kids? It aint white.
because they own the color black /s
According to scientists, neither white nor black are colors, so how could “Women of color” get upset as they cannot be a women of “color”?
“Women of color call out Dictionary.com’s ‘offensive’ definition of ‘black’: ‘This needs to change”
Women of color...WOC’S...may we call you that?