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Why I Use the Word "Negro"
New York Daily News ^
| 6/3/04
| Stanley Crouch
Posted on 06/03/2004 5:17:32 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: Woodman
People can call me anything they want as long as they respect me. Well, that, and not calling me late for dinner. I love to eat, you see. ;-)
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:47:09 AM PDT
by
rdb3
($710.96... The price of freedom.)
To: rdb3
White people calling black people "Negro" because they think it is "proper" is like black people calling white people "redneck" because they think it is popular.
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:47:41 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: B4Ranch
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To: rdb3
"Calling me an American will do just fine, thank you very much."But, you're not playing right. The rules clearly state that if you are not "Native American" (You know, one of them Injun-types) you are not a plain old American. We have to know how you're different so we can help you by punishing people who recognize your difference. And besides, if you're different enough, we might even give you things out of guilt and/or perceived threats to our communities.
So, be a good young fella and fill in the little circle next to your color. Isn't America wonderful?!
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:50:57 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: 11th Earl of Mar
And now they want to go back to Negro?
I give up.
hahaha. I forgot to list in my post #16 and you did too....
Remember when Ross Perot gave a speech and used a very common Southern expressing--except he was addressing a predominately Black crowd-- he said, "you people...." and got skewered by the press and NAACP.
I gave up somewhere between Afro- and African-American.
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:51:04 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This is the way with euphemisms. You use one to replace a perfectly good word that people find offensive; then, after a time, the euphemism itself becomes offensive, and you need to find another euphemism.
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:51:15 AM PDT
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This emphasizes one thing: If you wake up in the morning with the intent that someone is going to offend you, you will probably find someone who will.
Over the Memorial weekend, another writer (I think it was someone else--I haven't looked up article), this writer was complaining that Native Americans were not specifically lauded at the WW II Memorial. He/she was very offended at feeling slighted. [Another FR poster in that news thread posted that he/she remembered Native Americans being mentioned and that that writer must have gone to the bathroom.]
If you want to be offended, somebody will oblige you if you try hard enough.
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:56:33 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
And what is the exact problem with the word 'oriental?'
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:57:51 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(I give up! Entropy, you win!)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
My two cents:
The reason why some get negative vibes from the word Negro is because it is associated with the term nigger. Which as we all know is one of the most derogatory ways to refer to a black person. Now in my eyes if my fellow black people say something on the terms of Negro like it was mentioned Mario Van Peebles did earlier then I have no problem. But if someone from another race does a red fag will go up in my mind instantly.
Call this hypocritical if you want but I will keep it real with you when I say this.
For so long we were brainwashed to believe being black was a hindrance, and that having African origins was not something to be proud of etc. In saying that I am African American I am saying that I am proud of both sides of my heritage. This will be a stigma we will forever have to fight.
To: atomicpossum
And what is the exact problem with the word 'oriental?' Black guys hate it when you call them that. [::rimshot::] :)
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posted on
06/03/2004 5:59:30 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: TomGuy
Afro-American...
Reminds me of one of the funniest movies I have seen in years.
You have to go rent "Undercover Brother."
The main character is a black undercover agent who, in 2004, is trapped in the 1970s.
He wears a light blue leisure suit, platform shoes, sports a basketball sized afro and drives his 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible while drinking an orange pop from 7-11.
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To: TomGuy
Since the early part of the 20ieth Century,
Colored to Negro to Afro-American to African-American to Black to 'People of Color.' Try since 1970!
I'm not that old.
To: AppyPappy
White people calling black people "Negro" because they think it is "proper" is like black people calling white people "redneck" because they think it is popular. No it's like calling me Caucasian.
Redneck is like calling me Nigger.
To: cripplecreek
"If I'm not mistaken theres still an American negro college fund." Yup, and Bill Cosby donated $23 million to them. (I guess he's in more trouble now)
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posted on
06/03/2004 6:04:40 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
If you are going to define which term to use, you can use any one you want. I doubt whites using the term "Negro" are using it because it is proper.
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posted on
06/03/2004 6:09:07 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Blacks have always had a problem making up their minds about what to be called.
Over my 60 years, I have seen them go for Negro, colored, black, and now this STUPID and ridiculous term of "African American", a term that I refuse to use.
I had roots in Europe, but who is called European-American?
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posted on
06/03/2004 6:10:17 AM PDT
by
AlexW
To: rdb3
American --- it sure would be nice when everyone can just get to that point. It's almost got to when the census has to have so many categories now --- and too many people have a mixture of ancestors to keep worrying about where they all came from.
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posted on
06/03/2004 6:21:07 AM PDT
by
FITZ
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