Posted on 01/18/2008 7:29:12 AM PST by flowerplough
... It's an issue the United Negro College Fund is addressing today … sort of. The 64-year-old organization isn't officially removing "Negro" from its name but rather is unveiling a new branding effort that will focus on the acronym "UNCF." A new logo was unveiled today and the group is refocusing attention to the group's universal catchphrase, "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste."
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By refocusing attention to the acronym, the UNCF follows the lead of the American Association of Retired Persons, which in 1999 legally changed its name to AARP to reflect that its focus had expanded beyond that of just American retirees and to capture more aging baby boomers.
The notion of making a name change for groups such as the NAACP and UNCF are more than simply symbolic. These organizations are seeking to remain relevant and urgently need to attract younger members.
Last year, DiversityInc posed a question to its readers: "Should the NAACP Change its Name?" Responses ran the gamut from readers who said the name had "historical significance" to "the NAACP has remained in a time zone of the '60's" to "It's not the name, it's the direction the organization is going in."
(Excerpt) Read more at diversityinc.com ...
BTW, there are five airlines flying out of Houston to Tanzania, Africa. It costs between $1,100 and $1,600 to fly one-way, depending on the airline. So if they really prefer Africa over America, it should be easy to save/borrow/steal $1,600 bucks and just go.
Does that mean “liberal idiots” is not acceptable, where as “idiots who are liberal” is ok?
Cau·ca·sian
adjective
1. Anthropology. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly curled hair, and light to very dark eyes, and originally inhabiting Europe, parts of North Africa, western Asia, and India: no longer in technical use.
2. of or pertaining to the Caucasus mountain range.
3. of or related to the non-Indo-European, non-Turkic languages of the Caucasus region.
noun
4. Anthropology. a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Caucasian race, esp. those peoples having light to fair skin: no longer in technical use.
5. a native of Caucasia.
[Origin: 1800-10)
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Cauc·a·sian
adj.
Anthropology Of or being a human racial classification distinguished especially by very light to brown skin pigmentation and straight to wavy or curly hair, and including peoples indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and India. See Usage Note at race1.
Of or relating to a racial group having white skin, especially one of European origin; white.
Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
Of or relating to a group of three language families spoken in the region of the Caucasus mountains, including Chechen, Abkhaz, and the Kartvelian languages.
n.
Anthropology A member of the Caucasian racial classification.
A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
The Caucasian language family.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Caucasian
1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the “white” race 1795 (in Ger.) by Ger. anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because their supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. Lit. meaning “resident or native of the Caucasus” is from 1843. The mountain range name is from Gk. kaukhasis, from Scythian kroy-khasis, lit. “(the mountain) ice-shining.”
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
With the turn away from racial theory in the late 20th century, the term “Caucasian” as a racial classification fell into disuse in Europe. Consequently, in the United Kingdom, the term “Caucasian” is more likely than in the United States to describe people from the Caucasus, although it may still be used as a racial classification.[27] Sarah A Tishkoff and Kenneth K Kidd state, “Despite disagreement among anthropologists, this classification remains in use by many researchers, as well as lay people.”[28] According to Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, the concept of race has all but been completely rejected by modern mainstream anthropology.[29] In 2003, United States National Library of Medicine stopped using the term Caucasian race in favor of the term “European”.[30] In the United States, the term “Caucasian” has been mainly a distinction based on looking white, and being descended from a people who are “from Europe” .
Bill Cosby is still popular.
Add to that Jamie Foxx.
Chris Rock isn’t as popular.
And David Chapelle was more of a cable sensation.
That would discriminate against P-QUIS, People of Questionable or Unspecified Immigration Status.
(Who in the very best of Double Think traditions, cannot actually be questioned or quizzed as to their immigration status)...
Yeah - I can't wait for the remake of Blazing Saddles.
An awful lot of companies & organizations known by their acronymn have subsequently changed their name to that acronymn.
Who cares?
By the way, I never renewed and they still send me the magazine and newspaper.
What ever they do, will they please add a few more commercials to the mix!!! I mean Samuel L. Jackson is a nice guy and all but is he the only one they ever helped??? How about a little variety.
While we are on the Taupe-ic, I like Ecru-American...
African American doesn't do it. It just identifies a geographic location.
I have worked with two white people who were African-American, one born in South Africa and the other in Ethiopia (from Italian parents). They drove the bureaucrats and PC police in Sacramento crazy when they included themselves as African-Americans in meetings, activites, and AA counts, white skin and all.
tx_eggman ~ Ah, yes, the smallest unit of measurement in the known universe
Ahhhhh the good old days. I fondly remember the day my boss tried to get a redheaded female colleague of mine to provide some calibration standards...
From my point of view, there's no need to remake a perfect movie.
Yeah right, savor your DVD.
Now that I've had a chance to think that through...
What would you call an American who protects, coddles, or panders to a P-QUIS?
A QUIS-ling, maybe?
As long as there is money to be made off of a remake (no matter how bad it is) there will always be a point.
Besides remakes are a LOT easier than coming up with a new idea...
Can you imagine how much it costs to change stationary every couple of years?
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