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Benedict Cumberbatch Apologizes for Calling Black People Colored
The Daily Mail web site dailymail.com ^
| 26 Jan 2015
| Sophie Jane Evans For Dailymail.com
Posted on 01/27/2015 7:36:24 AM PST by mbarker12474
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The appropriate term for negro colored black African American Britsh actors and actresses of color is "African American." Yes?
To: mbarker12474
People are so easily offended these days because they want to be offended. They should be thinking him.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:38:38 AM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: mbarker12474
The National Association for the Advancement of (Liberal) Coloured People rejects his apology!
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:39:07 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the fascists.)
To: mbarker12474
Too bad he didn’t do this at an NAACP convention. Then it would have been okay.
I’ve never understood... why is “people of color” okay, but “colored people” is not? But then I’m just some white guy.
To: mbarker12474
The NAACP could not be reached for comment.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:39:35 AM PST
by
NotSoFreeStater
(If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice)
To: mbarker12474
Hope the Oscar votes are already counted!
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:39:35 AM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: mbarker12474
devastated. DEVASTATED??!! Over calling people “colored”??? These people must be very delicate flowers!!!!
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:40:01 AM PST
by
Shimmer1
("If you say you support liberty, show me where you stood up and fought for it." Ted Cruz)
To: mbarker12474
Chris Cuomo - CNN
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:40:14 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
To: mbarker12474
He should have just said he is a method actor and was in character as someone from the era when they used to be colored.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:40:31 AM PST
by
Boogieman
To: mbarker12474
Wasn’t “people of color” being used all the time?
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:40:32 AM PST
by
Williams
To: mbarker12474
Welcome to Hollywood Mr. Cumberbatch.
To: mbarker12474
The National Association for the Advancement of COLORED PEOPLE is not amused!
Only they, and the United NEGRO College Fund are allowed to devolve back down into linguistic history to use those terms to get MONEY from stupid white people... for shame...
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:41:51 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: mbarker12474
Cumberbatch should be put in charge of the NE Pat's Football Inventory. Tom Brady would really like the way his feel.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:42:06 AM PST
by
Awgie
(truth is always stranger than fiction)
To: bigdaddy45
There is an explanation. Those who consider themselves an oppressed minority are never going to be happy with whatever terminology is used to describe them. They will become offended by any term which enters majority use. Therefore, every term for black people, including black, which has been demanded during my lifetime, has then been rejected as being insulting.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:43:05 AM PST
by
Williams
To: Williams
Let’s just cut to the chase....the term is now “Amfrericans”
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:43:11 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: mbarker12474
The appropriate term for negro colored black African American Britsh actors and actresses of color is "African American." Yes?
Are you sure? I thought the current PC term was 'teens'.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:44:21 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
To: mbarker12474
I wish someone would explain why “colored people” is such an offensive term while “people of color” is not.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:44:38 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: mbarker12474
Skating on thin ice here. At this point,we do not know what is the accepted descriptor for this week and we will not be told until someone is offended. Offended to the point of calling a presser and proclaiming their victimhood.
Black? African American? British African-American? African African-American? Darkie, Colored, Person of Color? Nubian?
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:44:39 AM PST
by
Tupelo
(I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
To: mbarker12474
I'm old enough to remember when that term was considered the *politically correct description.
*Back then it was known as "polite".
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:46:00 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: mbarker12474
PC sucks the big one.
Cumberbatch should tell the PC crowd to shove it up their collective Obamaholes.
But, being the normal “gotta be liked” weak minded actor, he’ll bend over to get rainbowed.
I’m so very glad we have a few (very few) actors with brains and cojones a la Clint Eastwood.
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