Certainly nothing for you to fret over. Just consider it yet another of one those things in life that you are puzzled with.
Posted on 11/04/2005 6:05:14 AM PST by new yorker 77
'I have a problem with the term African American...The word negro is a perfectly good word. There is nothing wrong with that'
Andy Rooney on Imus 11/4/05, MSNBC, 8:45am ET
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Yes, it also gives away too much power I think... if someone can cause you to be upset just by speaking a word.
So whenever I hear some one say they are African-American, I want to ask them, which country in Africa do you originate from? Its a long way from South Africa to Tunisia. Its like me being called a North American-American. Do I live in Mexico, the U.S., or Canada?
Italy has an army?
lol, once upon a time
Will do.
He should resign from 60 minutes for that. Time to retire, Andy.
I don't know how you got THAT WORD through.
Congressman Jack Kingston spent his life's first two years in Ethiopia. He's an African-American!
LOL You should use that for your tagline.
Because the goal is control among certain race baiting associations as in "I'LL tell you what you can say and what you can't say."
I've always wondered at representing all European tribes and ethnicities as coming from the Caucasus region. Is that anthropologically valid? Because it sure doesn't seem that way today.
LOL!
That's true. And Little Black Sambo wasn't racial at all, and there was a chain of restaurants called Sambos that was also driven from business.
Personally, I think just about anything is better than, "Black"! Especially in a predominantly Western European culture like ours. "Black" has never had any good associations with it that I know: black magic, the black Arts, black heart, black & blue, Blackbeard, Black Bart, black for funerals and the old blackened milk bottle from Catholic kindergarten (the white milk bottle is your soul without sin, the black, you can figure out); it's the realm of the unknown and the scary/threatening in fairy tales and popular literature.
Jesse Jackson has done many dumb things, but insisting on Negroes/"coloreds" being called "Black" has got to be amoung the dumbest. I can see he meant the opposite of white, and wanted the confrontational value but, hey, Jesse, read a book or three. Unintended consequences, I'm sure. I hate to think he had black thoughts about it.
But I, too, could not open the link to Rooney. Maybe he already said all this ... Forgive, if so.
I have t admit that people did used to pronounce Negro in such a way as to get around the proscription on the other word. But before 1970 a black person would have been insulted to be called 'black' instead of 'negro.' After 1970 (or so) it was reversed. That was what was so confusing to people.
I think you're right. It was one of those things that when you're a kid, it's really not supposed to be condescending, but you just sort of have this feeling that it IS.
I don't see how you got away with the n word.
Andy- call your office. You left your chin strap on your desk. And shave those eyebrows, whydontcha.
Certainly nothing for you to fret over. Just consider it yet another of one those things in life that you are puzzled with.
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