Posted on 01/07/2010 12:00:04 AM PST by FromLori
I remember a time when blacks were called ‘’colored’.
Let me know when they get around to German-Swedish-French-Irish Lutherans.
Will the Census come out in the winter or summer? I’m a tan-American in summer and a whitish-pink-American in the winter.
Man... I was hoping “whitey” would also be an option.
RACE
__ Caucasian, White, Whitey, Honky, Redneck, Passing
African-American is a culture and/or ethnic group
Black is a political persuasion that came out of the self-awareness cultures of the 1960’s
That must be because folks have been lying to them. "Negro" was the term you used to indicate you favored integration. In the 1950s and 1960s, all the civil rights organizations used it exclusively in preference to the older term, "colored," or what was considered truly offensive, "black"—which was favored by white segregationists, along with nastier words.
Then, with the advent of Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, H. Rap Brown, and that whole generation of more tough-talking race-baiters—who referred to M.L. King and the church set as "Uncle Toms"—the term began to lose its PC credentials in favor of "black."
To show how fully the source is ignorant of history, those angry young men who rejected the term "negro" favored not integration, but self-segregation by blacks. Terms such as "black," and ultimately, the rap-song favorite, "niggah," were designed to accentuate the differences between the races, rather than soft-pedaling them—as "negro" does, by referring to the color black in a foreign language.
It’s a gross oversimplification; the Australian Aborigines aren’t included in those three categories, for example.
I’m offended that they call themselves African-American, rather than American.
I'm really sick of the race crap. We're all different skin colors in my own family, many languages but all American.
It's just tiresome after a while.
Or maybe write in “blanco”.
I always put down Native American. I was born in Morristown, NJ. Doesn’t that make me a Native American?
Correct answer.
I think I'll write in "American".
If you are going to go to that level, cross them all out and put “Vulcan”.
Or if that is too flippant, tick all of them.
Outrage, my rear-end. Just WHAT do they want to be called now?
>> I thought the entire human race came out of Africa? I think I’ll check the ‘negro’ box.
LOL! That’s my plan, but I hadn’t thought to use that as justification. If pressed, I intend to say that in post racial America each of us is free to choose our race, and who has the right to tell me what it is?
Putting those together is wrong. My doctor is African-American (she's from South Africa) but she's not negro.
This helps inflate the numbers.
Life must be pretty good for someone to get pissed over that.
Nice to meet you! I’m pasty white! LOL.
I tell my children—skin color is like Christmas wrapping paper. After you open the presents, what’s more important? What’s on the outside? Or what’s on the INSIDE???
As my daughter says, “D’OH!”
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