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MSNBC Host Sorry He Called You People 'Colored' (video)
gawker.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2009 | Hamilton Nolan

Posted on 02/12/2009 5:46:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

MSNBC's Peter Alexander concludes an interview today with the president of the NAACP by noting, "The president honors this country's colored people." Nilla! Shortly afterwards Alexander apologized, which was even more amusing.

"The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and a short time ago I had a chance to have a conversation with the group's president.."

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To: mamelukesabre

black is the absence of color. white is all colors combined.


61 posted on 02/13/2009 5:20:44 AM PST by all the best
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To: all the best

Not if you are mixing pigments on a painters pallet.


62 posted on 02/13/2009 5:27:32 AM PST by mamelukesabre (Give me Liberty or give me something to aim at)
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To: all the best
black is the absence of color. white is all colors combined.

My junior high art teacher told us that "white is light and black is the absence of light."

Our school was almost on Abraham Lincoln's front doorstep so I don't think there was anything racial intended.

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63 posted on 02/13/2009 11:11:03 AM PST by JCG
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To: JCG

Because “colored people” is what Democrats call them under Jim Crow. Use of that phrase embarasses black activists for it reminds them that they are still kept shackled on the Democrat plantation.


64 posted on 02/13/2009 11:28:11 AM PST by fnord (There's a reason we don't often hear about a Michelob deal gone bad.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“Double plus bad that!”

so are you, and that’s double-plus ungood


65 posted on 02/13/2009 11:37:26 AM PST by fnord (There's a reason we don't often hear about a Michelob deal gone bad.)
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To: fnord

“so are you, and that’s double-plus ungood”

I stand here, a victim of the influence of Emmanuel Goldstein.


66 posted on 02/13/2009 11:49:13 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Big Brother loves you anyway.


67 posted on 02/13/2009 12:03:27 PM PST by fnord (There's a reason we don't often hear about a Michelob deal gone bad.)
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To: rbg81

NAAPC


68 posted on 02/13/2009 12:07:14 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: nufsed

Bleacks, is that what they call mulattoes now?


69 posted on 02/13/2009 12:09:27 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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