Posted on 08/30/2021 5:15:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s funny you mention that because I also reverted to calling white people Caucasian at that time to make sure I stayed equal in my use of the term.
Congressional Black Caucus
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
United Negro College Fund
Association of African American Museums
Has anybody yet come up with the definitive list of which of the terms used in the names of the organizations above are offensive, and how the offending parties are to be canceled for their use of words that are politically incorrect?
"CHICK"?!?!? OMG now you're really in trouble.... :-)
It’s the American part they find offensive?
So’ moolinyan‘ ??? What??
Unless, of course, the caller is black. Then, anything is ok.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else”
Theodore Roosevelt
Big media will continue their practice of not providing any description or photos of suspects who are, well you know.
I have two black children. We use “black” when referring to race, and “African-American” when referring to ethnicity. They also know there is nothing offensive about the terms “negro” or “colored”, though “nigger” in this century is always meant to be a slur. Most of the time we don’t think or talk about it at all.
"CHICK"?!?!? OMG now you're really in trouble....:-)
Unless it was a young talking chicken.
Shall I report to Room 101 for re-education?
She was actually a Drill Instructor.
But referring to Whites as “Crackers,” “Hillbillies,” “inbreds,” “terrorists,” or “evil” - is A-OK.
Ain’t no way I would send a kid to Brandeis...
Maybe we should use “Melanin-Enhanced Americans” or “Melanin-Rich Americans” for blacks and “Melanin-Deficient Americans” or “Melanin-Poor Americans” for whites.
And they recommend using white with a lower case “w”. What about my ancestral roots?
About a year ago, I was in the local Goodwill looking for books as I sometimes do.
I found a pristine copy of Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ practically brand new.
I bought it. Inside cover page was stamped, “Declared Excess from library of _____(LOCAL)____ High School”
In which case you call her whatever she tells you to call her. :-)
“If memory serves, society transitioned to AA in the late 1980s because the term “Black” was offensive and/or undignified.”
Every few years a new term comes around. It is hard to keep up.
She actually smiled when I laughed.
No one else did out of fear. :)
So I guess “Spear Chucker” is out. /SARC
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