Posted on 03/28/2012 5:05:43 PM PDT by jimbo123
It was the picture of poor taste.
An editorial cartoon published Tuesday in the University of Texas at Austin’s student newspaper has sparked national outrage for suggesting Trayvon Martin’s killing was being overblown by the media, and invoking an offensive term for African-Americans.
Adding insult to injury, the cartoon misspelled the slain teen’s name.
The cartoon in the Daily Texan shows a woman wearing glasses holding a book titled “Treyvon Martin and the case of yellow journalism.” She is sitting in a chair labeled “The Media.” In the cartoon, she tells a young boy, “And then … the Big Bad White man killed the Handsome, sweet, innocent, colored boy!!”
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LOL
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.
It depends on the situation and whether you're talking about light or pigment.
I wonder if there is a catagory for “dark skinned albino”?
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.
I think in terms of pigment and it is black that is the combination of colors.
>> What is the offensive term?
“journalist”
(it offends *me*, anyhow.)
I ALWAYS FORGET!
WHICH DOES LOL MEAN?
LOTS OF LUCK?
LAUGH OUT LOUD?
or LOTS OF LUCK?
I ALWAYS FORGET!
WHICH DOES LOL MEAN?
LOTS OF LUCK?
LAUGH OUT LOUD?
or LOTS OF LUCK?
I ALWAYS FORGET!
WHICH DOES LOL MEAN?
LOTS OF LUCK?
or LAUGH OUT LOUD?
“I wish the US would get over its racial obsession.”
Well, 12% of the US population needs to get over its racial obsession, anyway.
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.
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....
the leftists who took over the college campuses in the 60’s are now running our society.
the leftists who took over the college campuses in the 60’s are now running our society.
It is indeed outrageous to misspell the word “coloured”!
Along with the press and the Democratic Party...who keep this garbage going.
When we said “free speech”, we didn’t mean for you.
Now pay your taxes, we need raises. :)
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