I prefer to call people by their name...fewer complications
Posted on 08/20/2016 11:02:10 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Observation: Have you noticed that when Trump talks to or about the Black Community, that CNN's headline is: "Trump To Blacks: What Do You Have To Lose?" or "Trump Makes Outreach Bid To Blacks From A White Suburb", yet when they talk about Queen Hillary, the term AFRICAN-AMERICAN is used and not BLACK? Trump's speech this afternoon from Michigan was really good -- and he never said the word "BLACK". He said "AFRICAN-AMERICAN". Yet CNN's headlines say "Trump... Black". Such a misrepresentation! This is why the mainstream media blows!
never watch cnn so no I dont notice it
I never use the A-A term......except as it pertains to affirmative action....
Since it first floated to the surface in the mid-eighties, I have refused to use the excessive-syllabic “A-A.” Black was good enough when it was black power and black is beautiful. So it’s good enough now.
I heard on NBC Olympics an announcer referring to a Puerto Rican athlete as a Puerto Rican-American. I almost threw my bag of Doritos at the TV set!
This is deliberate and intentional. Nothing the networks do is unplanned.
When President Bush was President, CNN simply referred to him as ‘Bush’ but always referred to Bill Clinton as ‘the former President Clinton’.
You think it’s bad now, just wait until Trump’s numbers are irrefutable that he has peeled away enough points from their most reliable voting bloc. The hysteria of the media and left will be far beyond anything we have seen before.
Every little thing will be a “dog whistle” and they will scour to find every former or current employee of Trump’s that will lie. You can bank on it. This is a threat they no longer considered possible and it is a very substantial threat. Even 10% changes the formula in the swing states and likely points to a Trump victory. 20% likely means a huge victory because Hillary is capped - her support is fixed. The only candidate with potential upside is Trump and every rat model for the election has assumed she is guaranteed the same numbers as Obama.
Style manual. Black= evil. African American= noble.
All the normal black people I know call themselves black. Not this half-American crap
It is empirically more correct to say “blacks” rather than “African-Americans”. You just don’t know what’s on the passport, shall we say, of his ancestors of 200+ years ago.
FWIW, some of my black friends actually hate the term “AA”. Their reasoning goes that, if their ancestors were indeed sent here as slaves, it was Africans who did it, and they want nothing to do with that history.
How ‘bout we ALL get in the habit of calling all LEGAL Americans of any stripe, ‘Americans’ again.
Gee. What a concept! ;)
I can’t remember if it was an earlier Olympics or World Cup or what, but there was a famous clip of somebody interviewing a black Canadian athlete who was born somewhere in the Caribbean. He had to correct the interviewer over and over that he was neither African nor American.
an oldie but a goodie
Born and raised in Mozambique and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Serodio, 45, has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey medical school, claiming he was harassed and ultimately suspended for identifying himself during a class cultural exercise as a “white African-American.”
After Serodio labeled himself as a white African-American, another student said she was offended by his comments and that, because of his white skin, was not an African-American.
According to the lawsuit, Serodio was summoned to Duncan’s office where he was instructed “never to define himself as an African-American … because it was offensive to others and to people of color for him to do so.”
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7567291
That’s when you’ll see feckless pasty white liberals telling Blacks they aren’t black enough, not authentically black or they are “Uncle Toms”. Should be fun to watch the reaction to that.
I prefer to call people by their name...fewer complications
Famous African-Americans:
Michael Winston Melvill Nationality South African / American
Born November 30, 1940 (age 75)
Johannesburg, South Africa
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