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People want the Spanish word for black changed because they think it’s racist
Metro ^ | January 22, 2018 | Jimmy Nsubuga

Posted on 01/22/2018 1:39:16 PM PST by EdnaMode

There’s currently a debate raging as to whether a teenager should be allowed to call her dog Negro. Actually, some people are so annoyed Twitter user @rebeca_macias18 named her missing hound the Spanish word for black they have suggested it should be changed. But the anger towards her seemed a bit unfair as she’s from Mexico, so speaks Spanish, and was not trying to offend anyone.

@rebeca_macias18 negro is missing😢 please if anyone sees him message me!!!

Some social media users argued she should have known how insensitive the word, which has been used to disparage black people in America, was. This Twitter user seemed to suggest the word should be changed even though it wasn’t supposed to refer to a person’s skin colour

@BeautiFul_JaA First of all the fact that negro is used in Spanish as a color is racist asf. The end https://twitter.com/priscillux/status/955264581730906112 … 3:15 AM - Jan 22, 2018

@Luyanda_D__ You definitely ain't gonna find that dog now with a name like that..... 1:21 PM - Jan 20, 2018

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: negro; racism; racist
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To: Terry Mross

Some words and phrases cannot be translated. Try translating the phrase “anchor baby” into Spanish.


21 posted on 01/22/2018 1:50:17 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: Terry Mross

In Mexico, when refering to people of the negroid genetic composition dominant state, they refer to them as MORENOS, or Persona de Color. Sometimes they are called MOROS.


22 posted on 01/22/2018 1:50:50 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: C210N

Shvartses!

(To Indian raising tomahawk): No, no, zayt nisht meshuge!

(Raising arms to the heavens in stereotypical Indian pose): Loz im geyn!

(To black family) Cop a walk, it’s alright. Abi gezint! Take off!

(To other Indians): Hosti gezen in dayne lebn?

They darker than us! Woof


23 posted on 01/22/2018 1:50:52 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I had a Black Lab named Sambo ;) Everybody loved that dog, he would get me Heineken out of the cooler, good boy!


24 posted on 01/22/2018 1:50:59 PM PST by usual suspect
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To: EdnaMode

It’s not just that she named her dog ‘Negro.’ It’s that she said her negro was missing, her negro ran away, and that if you catch that boy, bullwhip him and string him up. Lol, okay she didn’t. But that’s how the touchy ones read it.


25 posted on 01/22/2018 1:51:13 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: NorthMountain

We had a bayou here that was named by the Spanish ‘Bayou Negro’, because of the dark tannin color of the waters. People complained and it is now referred to as ‘Black’s Bayou’...................


26 posted on 01/22/2018 1:52:59 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: EdnaMode

Next they will say those people at the United Negro College Fund must be racists, or at the very least insensitive.


27 posted on 01/22/2018 1:55:34 PM PST by tschatski
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To: EdnaMode

Tagline...

BTW - My Wife’s name is Blanca. Cant tell you how many People ask her if she knows that means White in Spanish. She always responds, really, I’ve never heard that before while rolling her eyes.


28 posted on 01/22/2018 1:55:37 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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To: Red Badger

On I-68 in western Maryland.

29 posted on 01/22/2018 1:56:00 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: forgotten man
Try translating the phrase “anchor baby” into Spanish.

dinero bebé

30 posted on 01/22/2018 1:56:18 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: EdnaMode

UNCF: United Negro College Fund
https://www.uncf.org/

National Council of Negro Women
http://www.ncnw.org/

So many racists out there!


31 posted on 01/22/2018 1:57:57 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: EdnaMode

It was not “used to disparage” black people. And it remains the basis of the official race name - negroid.

Oh wait, isn’t it racist to say black now?

If she was American, she’d call the dog Blackie. And she’d be excoriated for that.

Schadenfreude on these damn liberals - which to side? Mexicans, or “negro”?


32 posted on 01/22/2018 1:59:11 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Celerity

Basically, if you don’t want any trouble, don’t get on the ‘net. Which is what it all is.


33 posted on 01/22/2018 2:01:05 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Flick Lives

good one gold star


34 posted on 01/22/2018 2:01:33 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: EdnaMode

What about “Schwartz”?


35 posted on 01/22/2018 2:04:53 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: EdnaMode

“Nigger” was the dog’s name in the 1955 British war film The Dam Busters. In 1999, ITV, the British television rebroadcast a censored version of the film. I think they just deleted the dog’s name. Subsequently, the dog’s name was changed to “Digger”.

BTW, a pretty young girl with tanned or darker skin in many Central and South American countries is affectionately called “Negrita”.


36 posted on 01/22/2018 2:07:00 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: EdnaMode

The Spanish version is pronounced Nay-gro, not Knee-gro.


37 posted on 01/22/2018 2:07:50 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: EdnaMode

Well they ALL must get their panties in a wad when people refer to the Niger River in the Republic of Niger.

As to pet names, I named my Black cat Whitey and my White Cat Blacky... It doesn’t seem to bother them.

Where I would get in trouble is if I were to tell you that Whitey acts just as you might think he would seeing as he was bigger than Blacky.

But it was more like Ebony & Ivory rather than Oil & Milk....


38 posted on 01/22/2018 2:09:12 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""In todays world:::WE, THE USofA are Rudyard Kiplings 'Tommy'")
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To: EdnaMode

Snowflake Vocabulary


39 posted on 01/22/2018 2:12:01 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: JimRed
The Spanish version is pronounced Nay-gro, not Knee-gro.

They don't mean the same thing either. In spite of the identical spelling they are different words entirely.

40 posted on 01/22/2018 2:16:09 PM PST by TigersEye (#ReleaseTheMemo)
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