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Tue Jan-12-10 03:45 PM
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What percentage 'non-Negro' does one require to not be called a 'Negro?' |
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Just askin'
I thought Jim Crow ended over a generation ago and people are still using the terminology.
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:46 PM
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1. what the fuckety fuck fuck? |
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:47 PM
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:48 PM
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3. Can I have some of that? |
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:49 PM
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4. I don't know. Strangers think my multi racial child is Mexican |
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Edited on Tue Jan-12-10 03:49 PM by notadmblnd
So go figure:shrug: When people ask me what he is, I tell them he's a boy.
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:53 PM
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6. Niece has blue/green eyes and ginger red hair..her mother is often asked if she is the nanny |
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Edited on Tue Jan-12-10 03:54 PM by HipChick
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:59 PM
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12. One of my teachers kept insisting I was Italian and not latina. |
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:50 PM
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5. If you are talking about the Reid comment. What he said was not malicious. |
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:54 PM
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8. That's not why I asked, but since you ask. |
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The Reid comment made me think... about this antiquated and racist terminology. Why do people try to put others in a 'box?'
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Tue Jan-12-10 06:20 PM
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22. There is always a place for generalization in logic. However,it should not |
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be a way to to judge people.
Everyone in all groups have differences.We have cultural, regional,gender,socio-economic,physical and many other similarities which can be noted as generalities. That is just a way to compare it is not necessarily bad unless it is used to demean someone. So we can't be afraid to talk, yet we should remember that it is not kind to generalize individuals with malice.
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:54 PM
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7. Look, I hate to shake people up on DU but here's the truth. |
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I've been saying this for more than 20 years now ever since I've learned it from Dr. Welsing.
There are only two colors in the world: white and non-white. When the world recognizes this, justice will finally come to the planet.
That's what's happening now, ever so slowly, but happening nevertheless. It's unfortunate that most white people are the last to know this. It's also ironic that a lot of whites don't know this because white supremacy is what set this system up in the first place. It's also why a lot of whites are having severe problems with an Obama presidency.
You can talk about terminology all you want. My birth certificate says "Negro." My daughter's, I am sure says something else, and my father or grandfather's probably said "colored."
Now I'll just put my flack jacket back on, and let people have at it.
The Harry Reid thing is a made up controversy over nothing.
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:57 PM
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11. no need for a flack jacket IMO, that was a sensible statement that nobody of |
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reasonable intelligence can possibly disagree with
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:09 PM
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:54 PM
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9. It is on the census form this year. |
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I agree it is an antiquated term and that it should not be used in most situations. I didn't know that it was the new "N" word.
Maybe it is because I am so lily white that I could be used as a swatch, but I don't think the term is offensive.
I will also agree that most any term can be used as an insult and that the new "N" word could easily be used for that effect. I don't think Harry was trying to be offensive, he was just trying to point out that not all African Americans are equally acceptable (or not acceptable) to white voters and that Sen. Obama was someone who most white voters would consider voting for.
The comment was a comment on the racial prism that others look through, not his own opinion.
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Wed Jan-13-10 02:22 AM
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23. Actually its kind of belongs there |
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There are Africans of all colors, not just black. Also non-whites of African origin who are not African-American...like me
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:56 PM
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10. According to the rules of Murika...It takes one red drop |
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and that ain't changed and if you're too fair then you get it from both ends.
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:59 PM
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13. Thanks for this. This is EXACTLY why this issue needs to be put to bed on this site. |
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Folks are losing their damned minds.
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:02 PM
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14. Jeez..."negro" has nothing to do with "Jim Crow" except time frame |
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People who supported/maintained Jim Crow seldom used the word "negro."
The term negro was the word used by opponents of Jim Crow.
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:03 PM
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15. No one should have to be politically correct. |
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:04 PM
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and I wouldn't presume to claim that,
and if that friend made it clear that she/he didn't want to be called by a particular name, I think I'd be very likely to honor that. No percentages of friendship or degrees of inherent properties would need to be considered.
If a group of folks made it clear to me that they prefer a particular word be used to describe them, I'd be very likely to honor that. I'd like to think there would be a low probability that I'd hose that in a thoughtless moment. However, one particular exception comes to mind, I won't call just any old group 'smart.'
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:06 PM
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17. Henry Louis Gates says that every time his DNA comes back |
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he's more white. Last time it came back, he was over 50% white -- "I'm getting whiter by the day".
His DNA has been traced to a female Ashkenazi Jew in Eastern Europe and to Ireland. :)
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Tue Jan-12-10 06:06 PM
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21. I won't touch that one with a ten foot Pole. |
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..and he's the tallest I could find on such short notice.
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:07 PM
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18. Sorry... as a "breed" Native American Indian..I cant answer that. |
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Tue Jan-12-10 04:13 PM
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20. Homer Plessy had seven white greatgrandparents. |
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The Supreme Court held that one black greatgrandparent was enough to subject a person to segregation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy
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