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When did “black” become the new “n”-word?
Self | 7/22/2025 | Fwdude

Posted on 07/22/2024 4:06:21 AM PDT by fwdude

I have recently become aware of a new shift in acceptable language. It happened at the assisted-living apartment where a loved one lives. I was trying to describe a specific maintenance worker who I’ve contacted before and was quickly corrected in the tersest manner by black aids that he was “African American.”

Wasn’t “Black lives matter” just a thing a few hours ago?


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To: fwdude

Use of the phrase “colored people” = hate crime.

Use of the phrase “people of color” = perfectly acceptable.

It’s all a part of the leftist separate-not-unite operation.


21 posted on 07/22/2024 4:51:03 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: normbal

I write in American on my census forms


22 posted on 07/22/2024 4:52:07 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: fwdude

Control the language, control the culture.


23 posted on 07/22/2024 4:54:27 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: fwdude

Give it time If they haven’t been offended yet They’ll think of something to be offended by


24 posted on 07/22/2024 4:55:13 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: fwdude

It might depend on where the person is from. I know many black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean despise their American counterparts.


25 posted on 07/22/2024 4:57:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: fwdude

Elon Musk is more African American than Tiger Woods


26 posted on 07/22/2024 4:57:34 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: fwdude

I’m so scared of using the wrong label I got bit by “chegroes” while berry picking!


27 posted on 07/22/2024 4:59:07 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: fwdude

Kamala Harris is NOT African-American...

She is Indian-Jamaican...

She is NOT black...

She is brown...


28 posted on 07/22/2024 5:00:45 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: fwdude

The word black is not the N word.

Black is the N word.

All those Americans of Afro Heritage are not Black. An increasing number are of the Afro Heritage minority-minority. The minority-minority is where the Trump support thrives


29 posted on 07/22/2024 5:01:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: JBW1949

She is Black to the bone


30 posted on 07/22/2024 5:02:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: fwdude

No.

If you claim to be “African American”, you are neither.


31 posted on 07/22/2024 5:03:41 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: fwdude

not every black person is from Africa! So stupid.


32 posted on 07/22/2024 5:06:14 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: SharpRightTurn

The progressive word Black is intended to unite what is in fact a very diverse Afro Heritage population.

Black Diversity is denied in order to create the illusion of unity


33 posted on 07/22/2024 5:07:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: NorthMountain

“ If “black” is as offensive as “the n-word”, then just say “nigger” and be done with it.”

The funny part is the reaction to that word. I was raised in the Deep South. There were signs in some places for white and colored. We really didn’t use that “N” word. Frankly, we didn’t talk about them much at all. It was blacks calling each other “nigga”. They make such a big deal out of it, and constantly use it themselves. It is almost hilarious. What do they want to be called this year?


34 posted on 07/22/2024 5:12:21 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Sirius Lee

“POCs” is likely this month’s preferred description. Thinking that comeala is an “AWOC”. (Angry Woman Of Color). Adding b the “ OC” I guess is okay. 😵


35 posted on 07/22/2024 5:33:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Phoenix8
I think it’s a subtle way to show you who is boss.

“you will speak the way I want you to” sort of thing.

Exactly what I thought. No matter what phrase I used, I would be guilty... of .... something.

The thing is that THEY are the employees hired to serve the residents. I'm not saying that that gives the residents and their loved ones carte blanche to be abusing, but using a term that was perfectly acceptable the day before yesterday is the furthest thing from abusing.

We're looking to move him to another facility. Unfortunately, those brand of "blacks" infest the lower rungs of the health care industry.

36 posted on 07/22/2024 5:38:33 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: Oberon
There wasn’t any right answer in that situation.

Is that why the colored criminals are never described as such by news outlets and law enforcement?

37 posted on 07/22/2024 5:44:04 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: fwdude

Why is it an issue? Why do people work so hard to make sure a particular race is okay? If a race is so spectacular and gifted, why can’t it just not stand on its own? Better yet, where is the historical record proving ingenuity and brilliance?

I try to treat people as they are not as I think they should be!!


38 posted on 07/22/2024 5:46:04 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: MikelTackNailer

There are other words far worse than “black”.


39 posted on 07/22/2024 5:46:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
There are other words far worse than “black”.


40 posted on 07/22/2024 5:52:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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