can anybody tell me the difference?
Posted on 04/04/2018 12:49:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.
Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.
Parker made the remarks on Jan. 22 while speaking at a party meeting in Jacksonville and apologized after the initial uproar from those present at the Burrito Gallery restaurant, where he was holding forth.
“Why would you still think that ‘colored’ was cool? Because to me it’s a Jim Crow terminology and it’s unacceptable,” Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks told First Coast News.
Some in the black community say Parker’s choice of words represent a pattern.
At the now infamous Burrito meeting, his critics claim he also bemoaned the affects of racial integration while others accuse him of using the description “mayor’s mammy” and calling the Working People Caucus the “Poor Black People Working Caucus.”
When first challenged for his colored people remarks, Parker told Politico that it was all a misunderstanding.
“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color,” Parker said. He also denied allegations that he had used pejorative terms for blacks in the past, insisting the comments “did not happen.”
Or my rifle of hunting?
Wait a minute: The lefties are always talking about “people of color,” so how does that differ from “colored people?”
...they must have someone they want
in his place....
I never heard of it before Big media excused Blasio and BJ’s wife for it.
Experienced it, though.
In my misspent youth working fast food, we had one of the Fraud’s sons who always laughingly apologized for being an hour late EVERY time change, spring and fall.
Change the name of the NAACP or STFU!
I’m glad it was a dem who got it.
"Though it is painful and awkward to air this conflict publicly, I have told John from the beginning that the most appropriate course of action for him was to resign,” King told First Coast News in a written statement."
Guess that makes us colorless people?
Sorry, I meant People of Less Color.
She’s just trying to save herself from the mob.
If you want an example of how crazy, and how long-lived, and how long-going, is the issue of what to call Americans of African descent, check out H.L. Mencken’s article, “Designations for Colored Folk” (1914).
http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20(spring%2001)/articles/names/mencken.htm
The acceptable term has changed five or six times in my lifetime.
“ongoing”
Yep. And Stevie Wonder lyrics.
What about “negro” is that no longer acceptable? Is it racist now?
Day vorce.....
Lol! It makes me wonder when the white cucks in the Party are going to realize that their strategy of pointing to other whites as “racist” is going to bite them on the ass.
I'm getting rather tired of the black-splaining!
Now that that term is taboo, many non-blacks have "appropriated" the term "people of color".
As in a virtue-signaling activist saying: "As an Aleutian islander lesbian person of color..."
I think that black Americans are going to rue the day that they went ape$hit over this trivial nonsense.
Blacks will end up simply pushed aside in the favored minority category.
Right now, Hispanics are becoming the favorite sons.
Blacks will be moved to the end of the line pretty soon, (if not already) by the liberal powers that be.
As I was reading the comments on this thread something on a local PBS station had the following:
"My grandparents were colored, my parents were Negroes, and I'm Black"
It seems like the term changes to cover up something negative. What's the next term after "people of color"?
can anybody tell me the difference?
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