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Census to replace "Negro" with "black" or "African-American"
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| February 25, 2013
Posted on 02/25/2013 5:06:13 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: morphing libertarian
My mother was calling black people Afro Americans up until a couple of years ago. And not one of her black coworkers ever corrected her in the 20 years she worked with them. I told her it had changed to AA and she was dumbfounded. She asked when they changed and I said, “Oh about 30 years ago.” It was the first time in my lifetime I had seen her speechless.
To: cripplecreek
How about we don’t have a racial identification on anything. What’s the point? We don’t need it and most people are more than one race anyway. (DNAlly speaking)
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:39:47 PM PST
by
pepperdog
( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the name/word Obama!)
To: ConservativeStatement; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
I have a friend from Iowa, a farm boy, whom I call Agro-American.
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:40:00 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: ConservativeStatement
Note that JF'nK's wife is an African-American.
There is no guarantee that the label "African-American" can guarantee a skin color, just sayin'.
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:41:01 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: ConservativeStatement
So, which box will Obama check, considering this ethnic heritage?
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:42:01 PM PST
by
doc1019
(The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
To: ConservativeStatement; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
What will they call now King Creole?
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:43:44 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: ConservativeStatement
And you must refer to terrorists and muslims as asians or, preferably...as Yoots.
You may apply the same rule to AA's etc.
Yoots or Yutes...whichever is more comfy (comfier?).
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:44:18 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: doc1019
That’s why I refuse to answer that question. And if they’re stupid enough to think a German surname is anything but Caucasian, then screw ‘em.
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:48:07 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: Baynative
Didn’t the term negro exist during the slave era, or was it always N****r in those days?
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:53:15 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: mylife
Are folks from Haiti or Jamaica African? Their ancestors were, just as American blacks' ancestors were.
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:55:56 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: Cyber Liberty
I agree with you, however many black families have European surnames.
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:56:40 PM PST
by
doc1019
(The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:57:09 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Cyber Liberty
I dont know, my kids are all black and they have irish-german surnames. And first names that are middle english.
Lets just say most people dont expect them to be them.
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:58:13 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
To: GreenHornet
Will the United Negro College Fund be changing its name? So is colored still OK as in NAACP, or as Rush puts it, the NAALCP?
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posted on
02/25/2013 5:59:01 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: doc1019
I believe they got those names from there slave owners.
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posted on
02/25/2013 6:01:38 PM PST
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
To: luvbach1
The term gained it's very negative, derogatory sense over a long period of time, centuries. It was once merely descriptive, however. It arose out of the patois language used by slave trader and slave alike, a mishmash of linguistic origins, a variety of influences upon pronunciation. You might as well say "Nigeria" or the word for black in numerous languages, "negro," is racist, because they share the same root. Hard "g," soft "g," a world of difference in perceived intent between the two now, in the modern world. That wasn't always the case.
To: ConservativeStatement
Are they keeping Cracker-Americans?
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posted on
02/25/2013 6:08:21 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
Freepers, your Contributions make every difference!
Please keep em coming! Thank you all very much!
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posted on
02/25/2013 6:09:49 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Support Free Republic)
To: ConservativeStatement
Anyone noticed a change in the Form 4473? I bought a new rifle last week and checked the space `White’ where they require you to categorize yourself.
The clerk pointed out to me, “You need to check whether or not you are `Non-Hispanic’.”
I pointed out to her I had already done that: “See, I checked `white’?” Even though I’m also Irish, a little Cherokee and a numismatist, charismatic and slightly deaf from firing too many guns without hearing-protection as a lad.
Sure enough there’s a category—a hoop I don’t recall ever having to jump through—requiring an affirmative reply that you are white, but not Latino, Chicano, La Raza, Mestizo—or whatever—even if you checked another designation.
So I asked her if I could write in “Shaved Ape.”
She said `No,’ and asked me to move along since the place was packed and busy.
Not to hi-jack your thread, but this has been griping me: I won’t be happy until we—whatever color we are—can walk into a gun shop, pick out a gun, pay over the money and walk out, skipping all the government bollocks. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, Fineswine you Nazi she-*****.
Signed, myself, a non-violent, sovereign citizen rapidly running out of chewing gum.
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posted on
02/25/2013 6:10:49 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: luvbach1
I learn something new everyday.
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posted on
02/25/2013 6:10:49 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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