Posted on 10/11/2018 7:34:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Now, I grant you, the Left has sought to demonize any recognition of human differences--that is, with some exceptions. They cannot very well get away with trying to demonize medical practitioners for recognizing that heredity influences susceptibility & resistance levels to various maladies, for obvious reasons.
Maybe not in your mind, but the term 'negro' is considered to be an offensive racial term by the vast majority of blacks in this country, and has been since the mid sixties.
I'm telling you this as a black man, myself. Now, if you insist upon continuing to use the term, you'll do it knowing that you're insulting every black person who sees or hears your comment.
I can only reiterate what I've previously stated.
While technically correct, the term 'negro', has long been considered by the vast majority of blacks in this country to be a racial slur. The term fell out of favor in the mid sixties, and has remained so amongst blacks ever since.
That is the cultural reality. You can reject that reality if you like, but understand that 42,000,000 people in this country consider it to be an insult.
How is that an insult?
"Negro" may be old fashioned for millennials, but it is not and never was a racist term. No more that caucasian is for wites.
RE: No more that caucasian is for wites.
Will Caucasians be OK if they were called Blanco’s?
And was always intened to be non-offensive and generally taken that way.
But now the cultural elite has been diddling with unoffensive words, co-opting unrelated words, and trying to tweak the American culture more to their liking.
Being a bit old fashioned and refusing to bow to cultural whims seems to be an issue with the fashion conscious.
Why would you want to use a “new” word when the original works fine and is understood?
I hear you. I refuse to use “gay” when talking about homosexuals, and seldom use queer, faggot or fag, blowboy or rump ranger. Ho-mo-sex-u-al, all five syllables, works just fine and an occasional sodomite in appropriate context can substitute.
And don’t get me started on the trannies. One of my young adult nephews has decided to be a girl, but I decline to refer to him as her or she, and still use his male name. If he’s had his chopitoffame (chop-it-off-a-me, the operation) I have not heard about it, nor do I want to.
I make some of the relatives uncomfortable, but that’s on them.
That brought a smile to my face. George "Kingfish" Stevens, former leader of his lodge "Mystic Knights of the Sea", always looking for an angle. His friends and foils Andy, Amos, his lawyer Algonquin J. Calhoun, his wife Sapphire, her sister Ruby...
Good fun comedy, and it never made me think any less of black people or negroes or colored folk or whatever the preference was at the time, mid 60s I think.
Mid 50s...typo.
The thing is, opinions vary. I remember using the word, “black” once around 1990 and a white woman told me, “It’s ‘afro-american’. They don’t like to be called black.” I bristled at the apparent terminology change. I remember it so clearly because that same week I saw an article regarding the new name change to african american and the fact that when blacks were polled, the overwhelming majority of them preferred “black” to “african american”.
I really don’t care. I’m a human being and I belong to a particular race. I don’t care what word people use to describe my race. Call me caucasian. Call me white. Hell, call me honky. I really don’t care.
And I treat others the same. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If a negro tells me he doesn’t like that name, I’ll ask him what he does prefer and that is what I’ll call him from that moment on, assuming he’s not just doing it for attention. I compare this to the gender pronoun nonsense Peterson talks about.
Words are symbols. That is all they are. Their function is to aid in communication. Everybody knows what Caucasian means, and everybody knows what Negro means. Neither is used as a derogatory word.
Some words are meant to be derogatory. Some just become that way over time, due to changing perceptions.
I remember occasionally hearing elderly white people in the sixties using the word, 'nigra'. They didn't use it as a slur. It was simply what they called black people. I heard it maybe twice. Perhaps there were other white people at the time who used the term derogatorily. No matter the origins of the word, it definitely became a slur over time.
The word, 'negro', fell into the same category half a century ago.
I moved from Seattle to Kentucky seven years ago. I was at first shocked when I heard someone call black people “coloreds”. I realized that it’s pretty common around here.
I find it kinda comical because the new phrase is “people of color” and the old phrase is “colored people”. Anyone who claims there is a difference between those two phrases is like the characters in that old star trek TOS episode where the two races were fighting because one was black and white, with white on the left, and the other was black and white, with white on the right.
It’s the same thing, and I grow tired of using the label de-jure. I went from colored to black to african american, all in my lifetime. I am now just a cantankerous 65 year old. I just call them negroes. And I call my race “caucasian”. If they don’t like it, they can ignore me. I’m good.
BTW, what is kinda comical is that I rarely use any of those labels anyway. I rarely have the need to call out a person’s racial characteristics. It’s mostly only when discussing the words themselves that they come up.
But I confess it’s a lot of fun to go to a CNN Youtube video stuffed with liberal ad-hom comments and refer to Don Lemon as “the negro on the right (or left”. I learned it in trolling school. And I get some huge bites!
Worse than that- he called him a Negro who stopped reading.
That’s not gonna sit well...
I highly doubt that usage is common in this day and age. Even in Kentucky.
I went from colored to black to african american, all in my lifetime. I am now just a cantankerous 65 year old. I just call them negroes.
We've had a long conversation here, and I've explained to you multiple times, that blacks consider the term, 'negro' to be outmoded and offensive. I'm not sure why you can't just call us 'black', which is perfectly acceptable, much as 'white' is for caucasians.
That you insist upon referring to us by a label that we blacks find offensive, and that we rejected over half a century ago, says only one thing - it's your intention to insult us.
By the way. I'm a cantankerous 65 year old myself. That doesn't give me license to insult others.
highly doubt that usage is common in this day and age. Even in Kentucky.
Why is it offensive to you?
Why does it matter?
You can call whites anything you want and it doesn’t offend me.
Frankly, I don’t get it.
That you insist upon referring to us by a label that we blacks find offensive, and that we rejected over half a century ago, says only one thing - it's your intention to insult us.
By the way. I'm a cantankerous 65 year old myself. That doesn't give me license to insult others.
Thank You my friend.
Much appreciated, KC.
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