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"African Americans"?
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Posted on 12/03/2014 8:34:38 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains

Even the world's most hard-core, fire-breathing conservatives have me baffled. I'll paraphrase John Stossel in harsher language than he used (no conservative he, but he did address the issue) "If you use the term 'African American' you are either gutless or stupid. Gutless because you are afraid to "offend" those looking to be offended, stupid because you've not stopped to ask yourself what the hell this new term is all about."

Why do SO MANY conservatives, even here on this site and even Rush Limbaugh, use this term?

Blacks invented the term to wield power over nonblacks. If I force you to call me by some regal-sounding, magisterial title with 10,000 syllables, then I am wielding power over you. Period.

On the day that I demand to be called a European American of Caucasoid Descent with Scotch/Irish Roots (Roots? Get it? That's funny!) then I'll start using the AA term.

Just how low must you bow when using the term AA, and are you allowed to look the AA in the face when speaking to him?

I mean, I do realize that "they" were surveying the building sites of the pyramids they built from the gliders they invented thousands of years ago, while lowly whites were still stabbing each other over grubs in the forest, but come on!


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KEYWORDS: politicallycorrect
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To: Fightin Whitey

No apologies needed, my FRiend. I heard Ron do this on TV some time back and laughed my, well, some parts fell off. Thanks for the repeat laugh, though.


81 posted on 12/03/2014 11:10:22 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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To: envisio
"She is an African-American."

So is Mrs. Jon Kery.

82 posted on 12/03/2014 11:22:41 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

That’s what I don’t get...

If Charlize Theron was standing beside Sheniqua from Detroit... the PC police would call Sheniqua the African American and would call Charlize the white woman.

Charlize is the real African American. Sheniqua is a black lady born in Detroit.

I would like to see, in a interview on any random news show.. when they refer to someone as an African American... for another pundit on the show to chime in a say, “African American? Really? I did not know that. What part of Africa were they born in?” with a straight face.


83 posted on 12/03/2014 11:35:40 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Wonder what they would call me, an Irish-English-German-Cajun mix of a mut? A Red Neck?


84 posted on 12/03/2014 11:44:34 AM PST by trillabodilla ("No, we love Jesus")
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To: clintonh8r

It is really jarring to hear it when it is so nonsensical. I was listening to a recording of a P. G. Wodehouse novel and was really surprised to hear ‘African American’ instead of whatever the original word was. Particularly since this was a novel set in 1930s Britain.


85 posted on 12/03/2014 12:00:57 PM PST by Ann de IL
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To: Ann de IL

To me it is intellectually dishonest and an insult to the author when text is changed to make it politically correct, or for any other reason.


86 posted on 12/03/2014 12:03:48 PM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: Doctor 2Brains
There is a gentleman I know who is 6th or 7th generation South African and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is white with sandy blond hair and blue eyes. He speaks English, Greek, Hebrew, and few African tribal languages. He’s a SiFi geek and a surfer dude. He has advanced degrees in Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology. He still goes to college to keep sharp.

On the first day of one of the classes my friend was enrolled in, the professor asked everyone to introduce themselves and describe themselves ethnically.

Heads just about exploded when he described himself as African American.

87 posted on 12/03/2014 1:26:32 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

88 posted on 12/03/2014 1:34:38 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Salamander
Who, ME?!?

I'm just a happy U5a1b1b(mtDNA) Haplogroup-American.

Bought my wings at Gliders R Us - (formerly "We B Gliders.)

89 posted on 12/03/2014 4:13:32 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi
Africans.


90 posted on 12/03/2014 6:26:13 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Sergio; All

I call white, “white” and black, “black”

and the only one who is black in America that I will call “African American” is Obama.


91 posted on 12/03/2014 7:18:08 PM PST by The Bat Lady (Ask Yourself This, Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago?)
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To: The Bat Lady

You could skip the “American” part in his case.


92 posted on 12/03/2014 7:24:39 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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