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Umm, when did it become appropo to call Afro-Americans "Black"?
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 OreIda |
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Posts: 810 (05/07/08 9:40 AM) Hey! I kinda like it here! |
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Buggles73 |
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Posts: 25550 (05/07/08 10:01 AM) Registered user |
I call them my 'friends'.
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 Dr Will Hatch two point oh |
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Posts: 3430 (05/07/08 10:05 AM) Registered user |
Why do you claim to be from Rochester NY Brandon? Coby says you still live in Dallas
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star jumper |
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Posts: 33001 (05/07/08 10:08 AM) I'm an ugly Yeti King |
Like anything Coby says is reliable.
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StatelyWayneManor |
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Posts: 6166 (05/07/08 10:16 AM) Registered user |
Techically, Charlize Theron is an African American.
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zippityboomboom |
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Posts: 6647 (05/07/08 10:29 AM) Registered User |
White people aren't really "white" either. More of a beige.
Although, I'm pretty much close to white. |
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Screerider |
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Posts: 21555 (05/07/08 12:58 PM) Registered user |
From wikieditia:
The term black was used throughout but not frequently as it carried a certain stigma. In his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech,[36] Martin Luther King, Jr. uses the terms Negro 15 times and black 4 times. Each time he uses black it is in parallel construction with white (e.g., black men and white men).[37] With the successes of the civil rights movement a new term was needed to break from the past and help shed the reminders of legalized discrimination. In place of Negro, black was promoted as standing for racial pride, militancy and power. Some of the turning points included the use of the term "Black Power" by Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael) and the release of James Brown's song "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud".Turns out, the term "African American" came later, so the question is actually backwards. |
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OuijaBroad |
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Posts: 4350 (05/07/08 12:59 PM) Registered User |
I've always said black and it's never been a problem that I know of. Saying "African American" sounds so overboard, PC, Ned Flandersy to me.
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Jenny du Jour |
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Posts: 837 (05/07/08 1:03 PM) |
Yeah I have a friend who is from Egypt and she is technically African American and she got a scholarship for being African American even though she's not
black.
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ashley madison |
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Posts: 7174 (05/07/08 1:03 PM) |
I don't think this guy knows what "appropo" (lol) means
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NlGHTCRAWLER |
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Posts: 15379 (05/07/08 1:04 PM) >: | |
There was a Brandon on Survivor Africa?
There was a Survivor in Africa?! |
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Mister Yuck |
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Posts: 2826 (05/07/08 1:06 PM) Registered User |
Buggles73 wrote:
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excbexcb |
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Posts: 781 (05/07/08 2:15 PM) |
Negro is the only correct term even though it eventually took on a racist meaning. It means color, hair texture, certain features, and culture. There's
many different African Americans, there are many dark people who are not negro, and the negroes in Europe are not African Europeans.
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ashley madison |
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Posts: 7176 (05/07/08 2:18 PM) |
my grandmother used to say "dark" because she didn't want to offend anyone and never knew what the PC word of the decade was
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memyselfandi |
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Posts: 13524 (05/07/08 2:36 PM) Registered user |
khnum wrote: Actually, in AP style, black is not capitalized. yw. |
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thesego2eleven |
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Posts: 72 (05/07/08 2:49 PM) Registered user |
star jumper wrote: It's no dumber than referring to yourself as Irish-American (or Italian/German/etc.) when you have lived in Ohio for the past 6 generations. |
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Beefcake |
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Posts: 784 (05/07/08 2:57 PM) Registered User |
My parents were immigrants and worked very hard so that we could be "Americans" without any hyphens.
When I was going up in Detroit, I was surrounded by black people. I think it was sometime in the 90s that someone decided that we needed to call black people "African-Americans". Now it seems to mostly be an excuse to accuse people of racism (eg, if you refer to a person as 'black', someone in the group (usually a white person) will start screaming that you're a racist). |
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hossc |
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Posts: 15202 (05/07/08 3:04 PM) Registered User |
There's a bunch of 'em getting busted in NYC at the civil disobedience rally, blocking traffic for all the workers going home. I say bail should be
granted for those spelling civil disobedience correctly.
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2ManyAndersons |
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Posts: 8050 (05/07/08 3:07 PM) Registered user |
Now it seems to mostly be an excuse to accuse people of racism (eg, if you refer to a person as 'black', someone in the group (usually a white person) will start screaming that you're a racist).Which is total bullshit. I hate having to walk on eggshells every few years because the formerly PC term is now deemed racist. |
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khnum |
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Posts: 17978 (05/07/08 3:23 PM) Registered User |
memyselfandi wrote: Interesting, I remember reading in the book that it was capitalized. Thx for the correction <3 |
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