'nuf said.
Posted on 06/28/2008 12:22:25 AM PDT by flowerplough
Any discussions about the terms used to describe African Americans as a group must begin by understanding the historical context within the United States in which these terms were used. It is a history that encompasses more than 300 years, when Blacks were brought to the United States against their will. During the subsequent three centuries, many terms were used to describe African Americans as a group in the United States.
During the 1950s and 1960s, common terms "negro" and "colored" were used, often disparagingly. Today, these two terms are unacceptable and are almost never heard, with the exception of old books and movies.
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My ex-girlfriend is an African American (Egyptian). She hopes that the Gubmint replaces “black” with African American so she can become the oppressed minority that she always thought she was.
'nuf said.
***”negro” and “colored” were used, often disparagingly. Today, these two terms are unacceptable**
Yet “whitey”, “Cracker” and “honky” are used almost everyday by “African Americans”...ain’t diversity great?
United Negro College Fund.
National Association For The Advancement Of (liberal) Colored People.
Yeah those words sure are disparaging.
How about those who call Collin Powell and Condi Rice Uncle Toms and house ni**ers?
Question the authority of socialists who demand to speak for everyone of a certain skin color.
The DNC candidate for President is a nincompoop.
Caucasian has never been acceptable.
There is a funny gag that seems racist in Terry Southern’s script (maybe also in the original book) for The Loved One.
Made just after Dr. Strangelove, it concerns a young Englishman who comes to America. Eventually he finds himself working with the funeral industry, first for a burial for his uncle.
He’s asked if the deceased was Caucasian and he says no. White. And the term DOES mean different things to the rest of the world.
Read up on it on wikipedia. Non racist entry. The whole Caucasian thing WAS a racist designation to begin with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
The term “Caucasian” originated as one of the racial categories developed in the 19th century by people studying craniology. It was derived from the region of the Caucasus mountains[6]. The 18th century German philosopher Christoph Meiners first named the concept of the Caucasian race[7], but the term was more widely popularized in the 19th c. under the name “Varietas Caucasia” by the German scientist and naturalist, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) who “borrowed the name Caucasian” from Meiners.[8] Blumenbach based the classification of the Caucasian race primarily on skull features, which Blumenbach claimed were optimized by the Caucasian peoples,[9] particularly a single skull from the Caucasia which resembled German skulls.[10] It was from this similarity that he conjectured Europeans having arisen in the Caucasia.[10] Blumenbach wrote about the “primeval”[7] Caucasian race which he believed was “the oldest race of man”[7] and the “first variety of humankind”[7].
With the turn away from racial theory in the late 20th century, the term “Caucasian” as a racial classification fell into disuse in Europe. In Germany and Russia, the term “Europid” or “Europoid” is used. Consequently, in the United Kingdom, the term “Caucasian” is more likely than in the United States to describe people from the Caucasus, although it may still be used as a racial classification.
My thoughts exactly. Isn’t “Negroid” the proper term for the black race as far as science goes? If so, how could Negro be wrong.
Who cares? Even they can’t figure what to call themselves.
What about a white-guy immigrant from Praetoria? Does he qualify? (That’d mix things up)...
Only retarded Americans still use the term "caucasian." Only folks from Yerevan and Tblisi are caucasian.
It is never acceptable, and should never have been acceptable, unless you are talking about Armenians and Georgians.
And whats a Hispanic?
I believe in 1961 Hawaii addressed it as “African”. No more Questions!
Whites from SA that became US Citizens are African Americans too.
So is it a race designation?
Exactly! :^)
LOL
It was more like Adobe Corp the makers of Photoshop addressed it as “African”.
Of course to even have race designations is racist unless you use it for preferential treatment.
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