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University tells students not to use the term "African-American" because it's now offensive
https://notthebee.com ^ | Aug 29th, 2021 9:05 am | Daniel Payne

Posted on 08/30/2021 5:15:29 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Sirius Lee
Why is “Black” okay when it's not even an accurate description?

Same reason White is? Or Yellow or Red?

We are all various shades of brown ranging from pale Beige to Brown Coffee.

Even albinos are not White.

161 posted on 08/30/2021 11:08:32 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I refuse to be afraid. I refuse to bow. I refuse to take any job I do not wish to. So BUZZ OFF!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah, 120,

But they have that special Skin Colors of The World collection.

32, with such names as

Medium Almond
Medium Deep Rose
Light Medium Almond
Light Almond
Light Rose

Deepest Almond
Extra Deep Golden
Extra Deep Rose
Ectra Deep Almond
Very Deep Almond

And more

Black is called Black Hair
Yellow is called Blonde Hair
Green is called Green Eyes
Blue is called Blue Eyes.

I confess I bought a box of these crayons at (EEK) Walmart.


162 posted on 08/30/2021 11:39:49 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Red Badger

I just finished binge watching Godfather of Harlem.

You know Malcom X had a point.

His energy was spent identifying the real injustices of the time which I can’t turn my back on coupled with the need for the black community to lift itself up.

He was assassinated by the NOI, not whites.

“Those convicted for his assassination were Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. All three were members of the Nation of Islam.”

The black community could use another modern day Malcom X. He would smile at the integration and acceptance and be like WTF is wrong with all ya’all?

Ed D


163 posted on 08/30/2021 11:44:34 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules)
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To: Red Badger

Most blacks in this country are mixed with white anyway. The ones from africa are very dark.

Maybe we should just start calling people that are citizens of this country, American and leave it at that.


164 posted on 08/30/2021 12:47:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Those aliens zapped his brain pretty good. lol


165 posted on 08/30/2021 12:48:58 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: MikelTackNailer

Can we use the term that means “someone who annoys”?


166 posted on 08/30/2021 12:55:31 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE)
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To: gathersnomoss
LOL! Hadn't thought of that Wheel Of Fortune blunder in a coon's age.

For some REAL insensitivity my uncle took the cake. Coming back from Vietnam most peculiar he once asked an Oriental lady out shopping, "Ma'am, are you a chink, a gook or a slope? So I don't offend you by getting it wrong." Even at seven years old I knew it best to wait by the truck to see if all of him came out of the store.

167 posted on 08/30/2021 2:03:10 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: gathersnomoss

As in naggers?


168 posted on 08/30/2021 2:43:00 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

That answer is correct.


169 posted on 08/30/2021 2:50:35 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE)
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To: EEGator

Yeah, right? For cryin’ out loud they go on loud and long calling themselves people of color’’ so why not call them ‘’coloreds’?


170 posted on 08/30/2021 6:13:42 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Red Badger

The darkies made up that term...


171 posted on 08/30/2021 6:16:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: gathersnomoss; Jacquerie

Nope, my post was deleted on another thread for posting the Wheel of Fortune - South Park picture.

And two pansies wanted me banned.


172 posted on 08/30/2021 6:18:16 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator
Burnt Sienna...someone had a Crayola 64 pack

Wasn't Burnt Sienna in the 48 pack?

Have to hand it to Crayola, that's how we all learned 8 x 6 and 8 x 8. I still have to stop and think about 8 x 7.

173 posted on 08/30/2021 6:18:36 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: EEGator

Humor has many haters.


174 posted on 08/30/2021 7:04:27 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE)
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To: JimRed

USMC 68-78 Common, neutral term, especially in Vietnam.


175 posted on 08/31/2021 4:05:34 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Vermont Lt
How about calling them by their names?

You're being a killjoy... /s

176 posted on 09/23/2021 6:56:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
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To: Red Badger

I went to an overwhelming black inner city high school in the late 70s/early 80s and I learned quite a bit about the culture and never once heard the term African-American. (Very rarely you would hear the term Afro-American). Negro and colored were considered old fashioned but not necessarily offensive. (Ads for the United Negro College Fund were ubiquitous). And many of my friends lived in the “ghetto,” not the “community.” Then, when I was in college in the early 80s, I remember reading in the New York Times that, effective immediately, blacks would be known as “African-Americans.” It sounded silly then and I guess it’s already becoming a dirty word.


177 posted on 09/23/2021 7:16:52 PM PDT by Atticus
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To: Atticus

About ten or so years ago, maybe more, a black Congresswoman was giving a speech on the House floor where she was extolling the virtues of South African blacks and she could not bring herself to use the word ‘black’, which apparently was on the paper she was reading from.

She instead hesitated and hemmed and hawed until she finally said ‘African-American Africans’..............


178 posted on 09/24/2021 5:51:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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