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DRUDGE: Andy Rooney says 'NEGRO' is a perfectly good word
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| November 4, 2005
Posted on 11/04/2005 6:05:14 AM PST by new yorker 77
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator
To: edcoil
It is what blacks called themselves for a generation here. We have gone from Negro to black to African American. Don't forget "Colored" as in the NAACP.
National Association for the Advancement of "Colored" People.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:26:37 AM PST
by
Licensed-To-Carry
(Praise be to the LORD, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.)
To: JennysCool
They still have the "United Negro College Fund" so I guess Rooney is right, it is still a good word.
I think they stopped using it because too many bigots altered the word like, saying "nigra" and such.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:26:39 AM PST
by
Edison
To: new yorker 77
Andy Rooney on Imus
Rooney and Imus are gay?!!! (I think I'm gonna vomit)
To: Made in USA
My favorite use of "African American" came from PBS. It was a number of years ago, I had just finished watching questions for Prime Minister and PBS was announcing some of their upcoming programming including one that was going to "explore the lives of African Americans in England."
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:27:40 AM PST
by
Ragnorak
Comment #46 Removed by Moderator
To: new yorker 77
Are white people to be offended when they are described in that fashion????
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:29:06 AM PST
by
cynicom
To: wagglebee
Personally, I prefer the moniker "All American Mutt". In my case, it's even accurate!
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:29:17 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Eschew Obfuscation)
To: G.Mason
"Lunatics are called mentally challenged, or Democrats."
That's priceless!
To: new yorker 77
What's the current status of "negroid"? When I was in biology, that was the scientific racial class for black Africans.
To: new yorker 77
I mean I live in America, so why can't I just simply be an American?
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:29:45 AM PST
by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
To: Semper Paratus
But in Spanish it's pronounced: Nay-gro.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:29:57 AM PST
by
kx9088
To: new yorker 77
Jesse used "Negro" at the Rosa Parks memorial.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:30:50 AM PST
by
toddlintown
(Your papers please.)
To: hflynn
Thats the new PC-Scrabble. Got warm fuzzy yet?
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:31:16 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG-ret)
To: Charles Henrickson
Your post #35..............You are so correct. Amen!
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:31:53 AM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
To: new yorker 77
I always thought "Negro" was a proper term, like "Caucasian".
I'm no Andy Rooney fan, but don't see the hoopla over this.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:32:38 AM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("My Gov'nor don't got the answer")
To: Charles Henrickson
I'm only 52, and in my growing-up years, "Negro" was the preferred, polite, respectful term. See, that is why I don't care for the word. I wasn't born when Negro was the common word for black, but to me using Negro and White makes the former word sound like an apology, as if being black was some sort of birth defect like a club foot or something. Now that is just my opinion, and if people want to use Negro it is a free country. But I prefer black myself. (African-American is just too wordy, and my family hasn't been in Africa for 350 years).
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:32:46 AM PST
by
LWalk18
To: new yorker 77
Why not? I often fill out forms that list Caucasian as a race choice.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:33:05 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Gay State Conservative
we've avoided this whole discussion with our kids out of sheer terror of teaching them the "wrong" usage, and they simply refer to some people as having dark skin and some people having light skin.
typical example:
Kid 1:Which teacher is Ms. Smith?
Kid 2: She's a 6th grade teacher, you know her, she's sort of heavy? has dark skin?
Kid 1: Oh yeah.
To: evad
.."with niger being the latin word for black,"Then, of course, there's the French version; Nee-jha'-ur.
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posted on
11/04/2005 6:33:16 AM PST
by
Designer
(Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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