Trayvon Martin case: College newspaper cartoon sparks outrage (from race-baiting liberals)

NY Daily News ^ | 3/28/12 | NINA MANDELL

[bigheadfred]

LOL

[arasina]

livius: Maybe “colored” was the offensive term. But one never knows what is the non-offensive term. Sometimes it’s “black,” sometimes “African American,” sometimes who knows what it is. Colored was actually a polite term in its day.

Cyber Liberty: Maybe we can ring up the NAACP and ask?

I believe it was Jesse Jackson who PUSHed the idea of using the term "African-American" into usage, replacing "Afro American" which had earlier replaced "colored". It was added to the lexicon of PC journalists in the early '80s (I think) and eventually went mainstream.

I don't know why they didn't change the NAACP's name accordingly. Perhaps because it would be NAAAA. ;-)

The "United Negro College Fund" is an anachronism today but I actually saw a television ad for it only a few months ago.

[FoxInSocks]

I believe that is incorrect. White is the combination of colors. Black is the absence of color(s).

It depends on the situation and whether you're talking about light or pigment.

[sjmjax]

I wonder if there is a catagory for “dark skinned albino”?

[Stepan12]

I don't think colored (the word in question) is an offensive term. It is certainly better than black which has negative connotations and African American, which is just plain ridiculous.

I also think the cartoon is kind of funny.

It is only the much maligned John Birch Society that has the sense not to use a term such as black and use a less derogatory term such as negro.

Negro and colored don't have the negative connotations that a term such as black has; e.g., black heart, Black Plague; etc.

[Stepan12]

It depends on the situation and whether you're talking about light or pigment.

I think in terms of pigment and it is black that is the combination of colors.

[Nervous Tick]

>> What is the offensive term?

“journalist”

(it offends *me*, anyhow.)

[Cyber Liberty]

It's not racist if they do it.....

[LetMarch]

I ALWAYS FORGET!

WHICH DOES LOL MEAN?
LOTS OF LUCK?
LAUGH OUT LOUD?
or LOTS OF LUCK?

[LetMarch]

I ALWAYS FORGET!

WHICH DOES LOL MEAN?
LOTS OF LUCK?
LAUGH OUT LOUD?
or LOTS OF LUCK?

[LetMarch]

I ALWAYS FORGET!

WHICH DOES LOL MEAN?
LOTS OF LUCK?
or LAUGH OUT LOUD?

[ought-six]

“I wish the US would get over its racial obsession.”

Well, 12% of the US population needs to get over its racial obsession, anyway.

[jurroppi1]

I believe you have it backwards, black is the combination of all colors, white (true pure white is the absence of any pigment or color). I could be completely out of my tree though, but I seem to remember a simple science experiment in junior high where we used black ink and drew (bled) all of the colors of the rainbow out of it anyhow.

[When do we get liberated?]

I can’t do that. I filled out the last 2 censi 2000 and 2010 that I am hispanic. Prove Im not lol. i have been a white hispanic for a dozen years now. I understand the need for the government to enumerate the population. But knowing my race is unnessecary unless they need it for their Keynsean economics....

[popdonnelly]

the leftists who took over the college campuses in the 60’s are now running our society.

[popdonnelly]

the leftists who took over the college campuses in the 60’s are now running our society.

[Revolting cat!]

It is indeed outrageous to misspell the word “coloured”!

[livius]

Well, 12% of the US population needs to get over its racial obsession, anyway.

Along with the press and the Democratic Party...who keep this garbage going.

[Tzimisce]

When we said “free speech”, we didn’t mean for you.

Now pay your taxes, we need raises. :)

[bigheadfred]

It IS the context, baby. (click the pic)