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Amy Robach apologizes for ‘mistakenly’ using racial slur on ‘GMA’
New York Post ^ | August 22, 2016 | AP

Posted on 08/22/2016 11:59:00 AM PDT by sparklite2

“Good Morning America” co-anchor Amy Robach has apologized for saying “colored people” on Monday’s broadcast of the ABC program.

“We no longer use the term colored people, although once upon a time that was a term in use,” McDowell said. “Now the preferred usage is people of color ..."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: apology; blacks; gma; language; slur; stupidpeople
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To: sparklite2

Isn’t White a color?


61 posted on 08/22/2016 1:06:40 PM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: Bryanw92

I almost spit my coffee out... Palm of face.. lmao


62 posted on 08/22/2016 1:16:17 PM PDT by Honcho
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To: AU72

“Colored people” sounds like someone took a crayon to them...


63 posted on 08/22/2016 1:18:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: sparklite2

How about “People of Colored People”? It combines the worst of both terms.


64 posted on 08/22/2016 1:20:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: sparklite2
To-may-to, to-mah-to, what is the real difference?
They mean the same thing but one has been deemed offensive.
This week. Next week could be the opposite.

65 posted on 08/22/2016 1:22:10 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: sparklite2

People of Color have embraced their color as a positive heritage.

Colored People are called that by White people as a demeaning term.

See. It is simple. I have been trained by MSM and BLM, etc.

/s/s/s/s/s/ss//s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s

That is casm of sar!


66 posted on 08/22/2016 1:22:51 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: RU88

Not “whites” - people of pallor!


67 posted on 08/22/2016 1:28:46 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Tired of racism? Take a NAAAP!”


NAAAPY?..


68 posted on 08/22/2016 1:28:46 PM PDT by AFret.
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To: sparklite2

Ridiculous....Apologize?? Even more ridiculous.


69 posted on 08/22/2016 1:31:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cymbeline

“African-American” my ass!

Charlize Theron is African American.

All these American blacks are just f***ing ghetto rats. Never been to Africa and can only be called “American” because they are here because of the happenstance of birth.

Isn’t it about time we threw PC on the garbage heap of history?

“Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.”
—Charlton Heston

And I can’t see much manners in any of those who try to force their PC on the rest of us, who don’t want it.


70 posted on 08/22/2016 1:40:27 PM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: sparklite2

I envision a LARGE 3 ring binder in the possession of the Executive Producer. It has both the ‘banned’ and ‘replacement’ words and is required study material for all on-air people. It is a 3 ring binder because the list is NEVER STATIC. Sometimes a banned term turns into a replacement term overnight.

The key factor is this; who makes changes to THE BOOK? The grizzled old white male who campaigned for Eugene? HA! How about the middle-aged Gloria-type who still wears her ERA button on the occasion. Nope, she was once heard to say the clean ‘N’ word.

Actually, the book is changed by midnight lurkers on an ad-hoc basis. There is an actual competition amongst the broadcast MSM to be the first to use an ‘au courant’ term to show exactly how ‘with it’ that they are. The old fogies in the print media are always the last to fall in line, they’re still using dictionaries!


71 posted on 08/22/2016 1:50:09 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: sparklite2

National Association for the Advancement of Cracker People.


72 posted on 08/22/2016 2:01:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: sparklite2
“Now the preferred usage is people of color ..."

Which means exactly the same thing as "colored people."

73 posted on 08/22/2016 2:09:03 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

My favorite of all time cartoon ran in the National Lampoon.
It showed a black sharecropper standing in the watermelon patch in front of his decrepit shack. He was holding a watermelon in his hands, and the watermelon is saying, “Let my people go.”


74 posted on 08/22/2016 2:14:54 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: AU72

My thoughts exactly!


75 posted on 08/22/2016 2:29:37 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: BatGuano
Please do not use “butt bangers” and “end” in the same paragraph.

My apologies (most likely the offense is in picturing an image). My point is that if one is offended by a term or phrase defining them, it is most likely because they do not take pride in what they are. Homosexuals are the worst; hence their anger manifests in calling themselves "gay" when they definitely aren't. Or their adoption of the rainbow flag, when their butt banging activities call to mind the color brown. But I digress. Black people, African-American people, whatever, they need to accept what they are and move on. They need to take pride in bettering themselves and not take offense in the labels that were not truly demeaning in any way that others can perceive.

76 posted on 08/22/2016 2:54:23 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: sparklite2

Political correctness is a tool of tyrants.


77 posted on 08/22/2016 3:12:49 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: sparklite2

I found out just the other day about the differences and importance of words and phrasing.

I had an accident in the shop and cut off the tip of my finger! It’ll be all right. Didn’t much need it all anyway...but kinda painful and blood everywhere.

My ladyfriend was at the beach with several girlfriends. Lady’s weekend away. So, I called her to tell her about my accident.

Me: Hey honey, just wanted to call and say “Hi!”. Yea, everythings good. Oh. I cut off my finger last night.

She: Your hole finger?

Me: Naw. The one right next to it.

Why can’t women just say what they mean?


78 posted on 08/22/2016 3:56:53 PM PDT by saleman
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To: Stosh

“And don’t get me started on the United Negro College Fund. “
There’s that old joke about Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson. I don’t remember it entirely, but The Ignited Negro College Fund figured in, somehow. :-P


79 posted on 08/22/2016 6:48:31 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: sparklite2

Who the hell is Amy Robach?


80 posted on 08/22/2016 6:51:08 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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