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Obama bans federal use of words 'Negro,' 'Oriental'
wnd.com ^ | 5/23/2016 | Cheryl Chumley

Posted on 05/23/2016 6:06:33 AM PDT by rktman

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To: jimbug
Obama is not a negro. He is a mulatto—half-white, half-negro.

Truth be told, more like an octoroon. One eighth black, three eighths Arab and half white.

81 posted on 05/23/2016 7:40:49 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: rktman

How long before the new terms become offensive too?

I didn’t know oriental was offensive, but I don’t use it.


82 posted on 05/23/2016 7:41:22 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rktman
might be a chink in the armor

You used the word "chink"!

83 posted on 05/23/2016 8:03:03 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: New Jersey Realist

when i was growing 40’s/50s call a black man black was fighting words.


84 posted on 05/23/2016 8:07:04 AM PDT by old gringo (a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys monkey.)
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To: rktman

Come to think of it, I had not heard the word Oriental used to describe Asians in a very long time.

It simply means “from the east”. They’re offended by that WHY, exactly?


85 posted on 05/23/2016 8:21:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I don’t know. But will the armed forces have to rename their “orienteering” courses?


86 posted on 05/23/2016 8:24:59 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Jamestown1630
this is the kind of trivia you promote when all you have is shallow ideology, and no real vision or ideal for the future of a nation.

Bingo JT

87 posted on 05/23/2016 8:53:47 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
It simply means “from the east”. They’re offended by that WHY, exactly?

No one is offended. It is akin to the so-called "Redskins" bs where when you ask actual native americans they shrug their shoulders. This stuff is all made up to advance an agenda.

88 posted on 05/23/2016 8:57:44 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: PeteB570

[[But “White” is still OK?]]

You can’t say white- you can however say Cracka


89 posted on 05/23/2016 9:15:20 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: libertarian27

[[African American, Hispanic, Puerto Rican,]]

So those who were never born in Africa should be called Africans now? Those not born in puerto rico should be called puerto ricans? I wasn’t born in Rome- Can i demand they call me a roman?


90 posted on 05/23/2016 9:20:43 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: libertarian27
There are so many morons serving as elected criminals, that I hope one of TRUMP's first goals is to FORCE all future valid laws to cite the relevant Constitutional section that empowers the Federal Government to control the national language in any manner whatsoever.

With a mandatory significant penalty for any legislator who tries.

My obscure choice? Calling ANY waste of taxpayer funds an "investment" in any Expenditure Bill whatsoever.

91 posted on 05/23/2016 9:27:40 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: rktman

The Major Divisions of the Human Race

Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today. These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups.

Ethnographic division into races from Meyers Konversationslexikon of 1885-90 is listing:

•Caucasian races (Aryans, Hamites, Semites)

•Mongolian races (northern Mongolian, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan, Malayan, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, American Indian),

•Negroid races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua, “Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, Sinhalese)


92 posted on 05/23/2016 9:33:05 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: rktman; All

We have a mountain in Western Maryland called ‘Negro Mountain’. There have been attempts to change the name, but they’ve never gone over, partly because even a lot of AA people don’t want the history of it messed-with. It has a very interesting story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Mountain

-JT


93 posted on 05/23/2016 10:58:46 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: JimRed

I missed that—where does the Arab bloodline come from?


94 posted on 05/23/2016 3:42:32 PM PDT by jimbug
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To: rktman
“Our country is a rich tapestry of cultural backgrounds and Americans of all backgrounds deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., one of the co-sponsors of the bill.

What a weenie.

95 posted on 05/23/2016 3:56:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (0bama's insane rantings prove that power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; All

Here’s the wiki on the term ‘Orient’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient

I still haven’t figured out what about the term has “deep and demeaning historical roots” - one could say the same, and they probably eventually will, of the term ‘Asian’ or ‘South Asian’- those terms don’t “describe ethnic origin, background or even race” either.

This is just a lot of small-minded ‘hooey’.

(As I said in a previous thread on this issue, a whole RUG companies, are going to have to change their names ;-)

-JT


96 posted on 05/23/2016 5:21:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

A lot of Chinese restaurants will have to change their names, too. :-)


97 posted on 05/23/2016 7:20:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (0bama's insane rantings prove that power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

LOL! Lots of ‘Orient Express’ ones :-)


98 posted on 05/24/2016 9:26:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: jimbug

His father’s side...IF his father is who he declares him to be, and not “Frank”.


99 posted on 05/24/2016 10:00:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: rktman

schwartzer?


100 posted on 05/25/2016 4:58:19 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Some moderator has removed my tagline)
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