Preach it brother!
Depends on whether you to divide or unite doesn’t it? You can’t easily identify targeted victim groups unless you can put tags on people.
Rave on cat chit, someone will cover you up.
I will proudly carry my hyphen.
Angry-American!
If we quit using the term “African-American” and insist on more information, maybe they’ll give up the whole thing. For example, I might describe myself as Irish-American, so I insist that my friend who has a darker skin color call himself “Zulu-American” or “Maasai-American” or whatever is applicable. If he doesn’t know, he needs to either find out, or give up the hyphenation.
BTW, Are there many Australian Aboriginals in the US? We can’t call them “African-Americans” because they aren’t.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
-Booker T. Washington
And I don’t know when blacks starting deciding that the PC term for us pale faces was Caucasian. I have heard this crap at work several times. I tell them immediately to can it as I have never been to the Balkans. When I ask them if Negro is the term for themselves they get such a strange look on their face.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let
him feel that because he belongs to this or that race
he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits
or efforts.
Booker T. Washington
I heard someone call in to, Sean Hannity’s show - I think it was, and they asked what was the Republican party doing about “black issues”. And I thought to myself - “Honey - they ain’t anymore BLACK ISSUES! We have a black president now & that makes you fully equal!!!
The days of “black issues” are over - Thank GOD! I’m glad to see them gone & now maybe we can concentrate on AMERICAN ISSUES.
I saw Neal for the first time on TV the other day.
He’s a bit of a dolt, isn’t he?
President TR said this for the first time, as I recall, that we must put an end to the hyphenated American.
I believe some people revel in the hyphenated business.
I notice, too, that many black women(successful ones) tend to use double-barreled names after they marry. I wonder why?
Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. He is an AMERICAN president, not an AFRICAN-AMERICAN president. There’s no disrespect intended here ... but it’s time to pay some attention to the words of a former president on the issue of hyphenization:
Sorry Neal but you have made a designation error here. Obama is NOT an American President. He is President OF America, but he is a Socialist President. So maybe we need to keep the hyphenization and call him the Socialist-American President.
I thought Obama had dual citizenship with Kenya. Wouldn’t that make him African-American.
He used to have Indonesian citizenship and maybe still does. He had an Indonesian passport when he was in college. Would that make him Indonesian American?
He’s a god.
Teddy Roosevelt said the same thing 100 years ago. It became the vogue about 40 years ago for leftists to maintain that we should all be divided into little groups.
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Hyphenated terms are the most precise and descriptive ones available. I used to work with a young woman who speaks fluent Korean, and is expert in Korean cooking; her parents (or maybe grandparents, I never asked) were immigrants. She was born here, went to a school not far from mine, and is every bit as American as I am.
She’s not “Korean,” because she’s never lived there, and to use that term would insult her by denying her Americanism. Korean-American is the most descriptive term. Actually, “American of Korean ancestry” would be more precise, but it’s sometimes too wordy.
When her family background is relevant at all. That’s the real issue: not what terms are used to describe someone’s ethnic background, but why it’s brought up at all when it’s not relevant.
I do have a problem with African-American as a simple substitution for “black,” because it often is NOT the most precise and descriptive term. I had a college roommate whose mother is from the West Indies, and whose father is from Thailand. He never liked “African-American” for the same reason Tiger Woods doesn’t; it doesn’t describe him. He had no problem with “black,” which is a purely visual description.
Minorities, now roughly one-third of the U.S. population, are expected to become the majority in 2042, with the nation projected to be 54 percent minority in 2050. By 2023, minorities will comprise more than half of all children.
In 2050, the nation’s population of children is expected to be 62 percent minority, up from 44 percent today. Thirty-nine percent are projected to be Hispanic (up from 22 percent in 2008), and 38 percent are projected to be single-race, non-Hispanic white (down from 56 percent in 2008).
Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decdade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history, and by 2050, it will be one in 5. These projections assume there will be no/no amnesty.
The non-Hispanic, single-race white population is projected to be only slightly larger in 2050 (203.3 million) than in 2008 (199.8 million). In fact, this group is projected to lose population in the 2030s and 2040s and comprise 46 percent of the total population in 2050, down from 66 percent in 2008.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic population is projected to nearly triple, from 46.7 million to 132.8 million during the 2008-2050 period. Its share of the nation’s total population is projected to double, from 15 percent to 30 percent. Thus, nearly one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic.
And then there is the impact of immigration, which accounts for two-thirds of our annual population growth of about .9% annually, the highest among any developed country. 87% of the 1.2 million LEGAL immigigrants who enter this country annually are minorities. And almost all of the 500,000 to 1 million who enter illegally each year are minorities.
Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decdade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history, and by 2050, it will be one in 5. These projections assume there will be no/no amnesty.
Similarly, blacks who are liberal are considered true blacks, whereas conservative blacks are considered “oreos.” If we're describing skin color, party affiliation is irrelevant. American Indians should be called by their tribal affiliation, if they still belong to that tribe. They should not be called "Native Americans." I was born here. I am a native American as much as they are. Yesterday, I heard on the news that Palin was not a “feminist” because she's against abortion. Well then, let's reliable “feminists’ “abortionists.” And what is so “gay” about these angry militant homosexuals I've been seeing on the news?
Every conservative who uses these PC speak terms is supporting the enemy.
Amen!