arwalden
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Mon Jan-24-05 10:02 AM
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May I Ask A Stupid Question? |
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Do Black people in Canada identify themselves as "African-Canadians" in the same way that many Blacks in the United States prefer to be called "African-Americans"?
Is the hyphenated label of ethnicity also popular across the pond? Do Blacks in the United Kingdom refer to themselves as African-Brits?
-- Allen
I have relatives that still say "negro"... only it's an elongated "E" sound... "neee-gro". It makes my skin crawl to listen to them talk.
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kick-ass-bob
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Mon Jan-24-05 10:04 AM
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1. my grandparents used to do that. |
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When they saw a neighbor walk by, my grandmother said - "look, a nee-gro boy!"
ugh!
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Mon Jan-24-05 10:06 AM
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2. I still occasionally hear the word "colored". |
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Mon Jan-24-05 10:35 AM
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3. I wish to live long enough |
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Edited on Mon Jan-24-05 10:36 AM by JitterbugPerfume
to see the day that we are all just people
but I know that is an impossible dream
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Mon Jan-24-05 10:50 AM
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4. It's usually 'black' over here |
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Sometimes afro-carribean (most of our black population came to us via the Carribean). I've never heard African-British, or indeed any hyphen British term; occasionally one gets Anglo-Indian, but that's pretty much died out now.
The whole race issue seems to be less contentious over here; we ended slavery quite a bit earlier, we didn't have the whole Jim Crow stuff, most blacks arrived post-W.W.II.
Some people still use the term coloured, though generally more from ignorance than prejudice.
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Mon Jan-24-05 10:55 AM
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Occasionally an older or uneducated person will use 'coloured'.
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Mon Jan-24-05 11:18 AM
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6. Growing up in a small town, I had never personally met |
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or seen an African-American, except on TV. None lived in our town or went to my school. At the age of 5, our church hosted a visiting preacher who happened to be black.
I can remember being so excited to meet this man. I couldn't wait until after services to shake his hand. I remember being fascinated by his unusual (in my limited world-view) skin color and beautiful smile. As kids are, I asked to touch his hair and he picked me up and told me to go ahead.
Later, my father asked him to our house for dinner. I had bragging rights that the "colored" man ate at MY house.
I used the term "colored" out of ignorance, not prejudice. Of course, now, I know better.
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