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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

Non-melanin-challenged?


41 posted on 07/22/2024 5:54:03 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: fwdude

The Left does this to keep you off balance. At any given time, the “acceptable” language for anything can become a sign of incipient, if not outright racism, sexism, or some other “ism”.

They utilize their “control” of language (via media control, education, and government fiat) to set the tone. At any time they have a ready-made tar to spread on people they disagree with.


42 posted on 07/22/2024 5:57:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: fwdude

In his recent interview on BET, Joe Biden couldn’t remember the name of his Secretary of Defense, so he referred to him as “the Black man.”


43 posted on 07/22/2024 6:00:42 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: fwdude

I wonder if African Americans might be happier if they all went back to the home land they cherish so much?


44 posted on 07/22/2024 6:02:20 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat
I wonder if African Americans might be happier if they all went back to the home land they cherish so much?

They certainly want to identify with that continent, it seems. They should do so wholeheartedly.

45 posted on 07/22/2024 6:09:43 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: bk1000
What do they want to be called this year?

This year? How about this week?

46 posted on 07/22/2024 6:11:34 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: ComputerGuy
I wish I could identify as African. That continent has produced more than its share of mankind’s greatest thinkers.

And the life-changing inventions, my God!

47 posted on 07/22/2024 6:13:20 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: Sirius Lee

African man to Northern European man

When I was born, I was black,
When I grew up, I was black,
When I’m sick, I’m black,
When I go out in the sun, I’m black,
When I’m cold, I’m black,
When I die, I’ll be black,

But you,

When you’re born, you’re pink,
When you grow up, you’re white,
When you’re sick, you’re green,
When you go out in the sun, you go red,
When you’re cold, you go blue,
When you die, you’ll be purple,

And you have the nerve to call me colored!


48 posted on 07/22/2024 6:21:33 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: ComputerGuy

well, the alphabet was developed in the Sinai.


49 posted on 07/22/2024 6:22:24 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: fwdude

Ya really want to rile them up? Refer to the colored maintenance man.


50 posted on 07/22/2024 6:27:39 AM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: No Party Affiliation
Ya really want to rile them up? Refer to the colored maintenance man.

I would, but since we have a loved one there, I can see harmful recrimination launched against him. These people are inoculated against compassion and have no scruples whatsoever.

51 posted on 07/22/2024 6:41:25 AM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: fwdude

Elon Musk is an African American, and he isn’t black.


52 posted on 07/22/2024 6:46:54 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Sirius Lee

Everyone just say whatever you want and tell the whiners to stuff it. That’s the only way this ends.


53 posted on 07/22/2024 6:50:04 AM PDT by Nea Wood ( )
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To: fwdude

The sad thing? Your loved one is held hostage by these racist slugs. If you push back, your loved one gets spit on their food... or worse.


54 posted on 07/22/2024 6:51:12 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: fwdude

even democrats have given up on the stupid African American thing. That person was just being an ass.


55 posted on 07/22/2024 6:54:45 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: fwdude

/eyeroll


56 posted on 07/22/2024 6:58:50 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: JBW1949

Kamala Harris is NOT African-American...

She is Indian-Jamaican...

She is NOT black...

She is brown...


She is also ineligible...


57 posted on 07/22/2024 6:59:45 AM PDT by AFret. (.)
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To: fwdude

Not all black people are African American. Some are, some aren’t. There are African (from Africa), African British etc. African American is a subset of all black people.


58 posted on 07/22/2024 7:01:00 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: fwdude

Ironic considering the actual word “nigger” is used more now than ever probably

It was a white trash word where I grew up in the deep Deep South and forbidden by must white bourgeoisie

In the delta I did hear planter class use “nigra” for cultivation hands

Martin King etc said Negro and a few so called enlightened also used nigra

I’m 67

I don’t know why we’re taking about but it given we’ve moved on to pronouns

The left are masters at language control


59 posted on 07/22/2024 7:01:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God)
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To: ComputerGuy
I wish I could identify as African. That continent has produced more than its share of mankind’s greatest thinkers.

Like Moses, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Zenodotus, Claudius Ptolemy, Augustine of Hippo, St. Anthony the Great, Hypatia of Alexandria, Aurelius of Carthage, Maimonides, and so on.

60 posted on 07/22/2024 7:02:13 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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