[re_nortex]

I’d rather use the word “black.” My Grandparents owned a small farm during the Great Depression, surrounded by an Amish community in Southern Michigan. Those wonderful people pulled my Mom’s rather large family through the toughest parts of the the depression, and the family is eternally grateful to them. My family was never Amish, but they were never treated as “outsiders.”

Very well said and that squares with what my relatives in central Pennsylvania told me. By and large, the Amish are an honest people and straightforward in dealing with others. They're also good workers and were reliable in helping on construction jobs around the farm my relatives owned. Look, I get the well-entrenched tongue in cheek use of "Amish" as a code word here on Free Republic. It probably works, to some extent, because the Amish are so far removed from the type of behavior that so many (not all, but many) blacks engage in.

For me though, doing the wink and nod routine is a tad tiresome. I'll say what I mean with candor and if my short tenure here at FR comes to end, so be it.

[Cyber Liberty]

Don’t sell your tenure “short” there. Maybe compared to me, but every group has to have it’s greybeards....

I’m all for dropping the Amish thing, but it’s like a stuned beeber taking a shower before a zot: Not gonna happen. Words from a greybeard....FWIW.