Posted on 04/04/2018 10:34:39 AM PDT by rktman
Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.
Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.
Parker made the remarks on Jan. 22 while speaking at a party meeting in Jacksonville and apologized after the initial uproar from those present at the Burrito Gallery restaurant, where he was holding forth.
“Why would you still think that ‘colored’ was cool? Because to me it’s a Jim Crow terminology and it’s unacceptable,” Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks told First Coast News.
Some in the black community say Parker’s choice of words represent a pattern.
At the now infamous Burrito meeting, his critics claim he also bemoaned the affects of racial integration while others accuse him of using the description “mayor’s mammy” and calling the Working People Caucus the “Poor Black People Working Caucus.”
When first challenged for his colored people remarks, Parker told Politico that it was all a misunderstanding.
“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color,” Parker said. He also denied allegations that he had used pejorative terms for blacks in the past, insisting the comments “did not happen.”
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That should tell you everything you need to know about the proglibs.
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It’s amazing. I’ve just determined that I’m just not going to play along with this foolishness anymore.
What’s the difference between “colored people” and “people of color”?
Uhhh, no. Actually you are dead wrong. the term colored is a term of respect, and no different than calling someone white.
I grew up in the Jim Crow South, and colored people and colored is most certainly not a term of disrespect. There is another ugly word that was used as a term of disrespect. My mother would not allow us to use that other word because she was a Christian woman who respected all of God's creation. There were colored folks and white folks, and that's just the way it was, and no disrespect was meant or taken.
“BTW, I moved to rural KY seven years ago from Seattle. I was shocked that they still say “colored” here.”
When I lived Alabama and Fla everyone used the term colored, it was on everything from bathrooms to drinking fountains.
” My mother would not allow us to use that other word because she was a Christian woman who respected all of God’s creation. There were colored folks and white folks, and that’s just the way it was, and no disrespect was meant or taken”
I grew up in the Northeast-——and that’s the way we referred to blacks——what psycho came to the conclusion that this was a bad thing?
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“The problem is of course, the ‘colored people’ was a southern term used to demean these people; same as the term ‘darkie’.”
The term colored people was an upgrade of the term darkie, which itself was an upgrade from the term black and other descriptions.
Colored was later upgraded to Negro, which in turn was upgraded to black.
Black is now, apparently, being upgraded to the term people of color.
"...for the Advancement of Colored People"? Well, per its own definition of the word, a "colored person" spent eight years as President of the United States.
How much more "advancement" do they need?!?
Well, I never see it in print. Also, this is not part of what was the “Jim Crow” area back in the day. It’s just a cultural thing.
I to crack up every time I hear “of color”. It’s just another way of saying “colored”.
Nothing changes under the sun.
In my unfortunate experience at public school, the lighter-skinned girls were often more vicious than their darker-skinner counterparts, because they needed to prove themselves.
This whole kerfluffle over the accidental phrase "colored people" shows how the activists inevitably sabotage themselves by making mountains out of molehills.
Such censorship is a crude attempt to shut down political/religious opinions and intelligent discussion, substituting coercive pressure by those who wish no such reasoned debate.
Generations who have been "imprisoned" in schools which failed to teach them of their individual value and purpose under the ideas expressed in their nation's Declaration of Independence and protected under their written Constitution should now be informed that the First Amendment protects their freedom of speech, of expression, and that no "progressive regressive" has a right to censor away that right.
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson
“Colored people” is precisely the same thing as “people of color.”
There is no difference.
The Left is psycho.
Nonsense. It was a descriptive term used by people who had enough respect for blacks' feelings to not call them niggers. Darkie was the same, but with a touch of fondness. (See Steven Foster)
It’s all they have.
Bigots calling other People Bigots.
“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color”
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They’re really saying I love you.
I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Thanks, Louie. Great song.
I can’t imagine being subject to such hyper-sensitivity. This is ridiculous. As you say, they’re arguing somebody should step-aside because of the order of a couple of words.
It doesn’t seem to dawn on them, if you’re experiencing infighting over something like this then your priorities are so screwed up you’ll never win anything.
They still don’t seem to realize that alienating straight, white, Christian men isn’t a good strategy. I find it astonishing that so many are still asleep to this and continue to vote liberal.
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Here in NY/ New Jersey in the 60s it was “Never Agitate Adam Clayton Powell”.
You say potato, I say potahto...
I love it when libs eat there own.
They are insulting two groups at once!
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