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To: Bernard Marx

“But how I detest divisive terms like “African American

Do you remember the following story?...Every time I think about it I laugh myself sick again and again.

Several years ago a man from Africa came to the U.S. and became a U.S. citizen.

He referred to himself as an African-American, which I hope he still does.

Many blacks got on him like white on rice.

Why? Because he was white and not black. Apparently that term is reserved only for blacks, and no one else has the authority to use it.


34 posted on 07/12/2009 12:23:12 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Why? Because he was white and not black. Apparently that term is reserved only for blacks, and no one else has the authority to use it.

White guy I once knew came here from South Africa. Told me he applied to a predominately Black college and put on his application that he was African-American.

He said they "were not amused."

45 posted on 07/12/2009 12:44:28 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

That’s just one of the many evil absurdities of dividing Americans along racial lines. According to that flawed reasoning, naturalized white and non-Black South Africans, Egyptians, Morrocoans, Libyans, Algerians, Tunisians, etc. should all be called “African-Americans.” There has always been a very serious and subversive racial-political agenda behind the multi-culti nonsense.


51 posted on 07/12/2009 12:53:43 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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