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1 posted on 07/22/2024 4:06:21 AM PDT by fwdude
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There’s just no placating the coloreds.


2 posted on 07/22/2024 4:08:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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Political correctness is for idiots!


3 posted on 07/22/2024 4:09:46 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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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.


6 posted on 07/22/2024 4:16:59 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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Afro-Americans? (Then we'd be Euro-Americans, right?)

African Americans? (Then we'd be European Americans, right?)

People of Color? (Then we'd be People of No Color, right?)

Regards,

7 posted on 07/22/2024 4:20:58 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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I wish I could identify as African. That continent has produced more than its share of mankind’s greatest thinkers.


8 posted on 07/22/2024 4:23:42 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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There wasn’t any right answer in that situation. You were being played.


9 posted on 07/22/2024 4:25:00 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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There’s a old joke about that exact subject, which I will not repeat here.


10 posted on 07/22/2024 4:28:40 AM PDT by Fireone (Why hasn't Kim Cheatle been fired?)
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Whatever would have been an appropriate response or Oh that’s what you’re called now? Or, I had no idea he was from Africa.


11 posted on 07/22/2024 4:30:30 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Talking to a patient a while back, I said something to the effect of “you being African American” and he blasted me with”I’m not a frakking African -American, I’m BLACK, from Jamaica.”

In Army basic training in 1976 I got to know a couple of guys from the Virgin Islands who made the very same point, but it was said with much scorn and derision.

So, all AA’s are black(ish, up to high taller), but not all black people are AA’s.

BTW - on every census card I’ve ever filled out I have written in “Human” for race, and only ever mark “other” if there’s no fill in the blank option elsewhere.

Screw the divisiveness of the left


12 posted on 07/22/2024 4:33:47 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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Talking to a patient a while back, I said something to the effect of “you being African American” and he blasted me with”I’m not a frakking African -American, I’m BLACK, from Jamaica.”

In Army basic training in 1976 I got to know a couple of guys from the Virgin Islands who made the very same point, but it was said with much scorn and derision.

So, all AA’s are black(ish, up to high taller), but not all black people are AA’s.

BTW - on every census card I’ve ever filled out I have written in “Human” for race, and only ever mark “other” if there’s no fill in the blank option elsewhere.

Screw the divisiveness of the left


13 posted on 07/22/2024 4:33:47 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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Like Elon Musk?


14 posted on 07/22/2024 4:38:02 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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I think the new term is “un-white”.


15 posted on 07/22/2024 4:41:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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All those words are a trap for Whitey. It doesn’t matter which word you use - you’re called racist no matter what.

The trap is sprung ONLY for Whiteys. If you say “colored people” because you know that NAACP has “colored people” in it, and you’re White, you’re branded racist. If you say “black” because you know of the Congressional Black Caucus, you’re labeled racist if you’re White.

Anything and everything you say that has any reference to race can get you canceled, arrested, and/or fired. If you’re a Whitey.


16 posted on 07/22/2024 4:41:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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I will continue using black (as opposed to Black), negro along with caucasion and oriental during discussion on the subject and refuse to see the word “nigger” as a term of endearment among one group while regarded as an insult when any other uses it.

I knew a Vietnam vet who asked a belligerent oriental woman in a store “Are you a gook, a chink or a slope? I wouldn’t want to get it wrong.”


17 posted on 07/22/2024 4:42:48 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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What’s tricky is when people have absorbed that lesson, which has been taught in certain contexts for decades now, but then try to correctly apply the phrase to a black foreigner—and catch themselves mid-utterance.


18 posted on 07/22/2024 4:43:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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If “black” is as offensive as “the n-word”, then just say “nigger” and be done with it.


19 posted on 07/22/2024 4:44:02 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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My mother taught me in the 70s not to refer to individuals as "black". The only time, I believe, the distinction is useful is as a deliberate discriminator such as: "the unknown suspect was white or black or asian" etc. Because the racial distinction is undeniably useful in IDing an unknown person at large, it should be spared otherwise. Race is nobody's most important characteristic.

The Shimmering Unreality of Race Realism

20 posted on 07/22/2024 4:48:57 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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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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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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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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