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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: FrdmLvr
You can say ‘people of color’ but you can’t say ‘colored people’. What’s the difference?

Bloom County asked the same thing

41 posted on 08/22/2016 12:25:23 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: cdga5for4

Oh, I get it, so instead of bubble boy, it’s boy in a bubble, and instead of pajama boy its boy in pajamas and...


42 posted on 08/22/2016 12:27:30 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: FrdmLvr

“You can say ‘people of color’ but you can’t say ‘colored people’. “

In the former, people is used first; in the latter colored is used first.


43 posted on 08/22/2016 12:27:39 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: sparklite2

Whitey’s Fault!


44 posted on 08/22/2016 12:33:51 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: All

Except for the inconvenient fact that there’s no victimhood payoff to it, should I insist on being included in the group, People of White?

Some time ago, it was agreed in these precincts that People of Hump was the PC version of that old slur, hunchback.


45 posted on 08/22/2016 12:37:05 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Snickering Hound

Meanwhile is sexistville.

Not guilty.


46 posted on 08/22/2016 12:38:48 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: thorvaldr

“So, I suppose the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also objects to the term Colored People?”

It needs to be NAAA, Nat. Assoc. of African Americans.


47 posted on 08/22/2016 12:41:14 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: sparklite2

I’m a person of color. Sort of a beige.


48 posted on 08/22/2016 12:44:42 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: PSUGOP

Lamont: “Was the guy colored?”

Fred Sanford: “Yeah, he was colored. He was colored white!”


49 posted on 08/22/2016 12:46:41 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: sparklite2

Off with her head!


50 posted on 08/22/2016 12:46:46 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: sparklite2

Black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes. The grey area about black: A black object may look black, but, technically, it may still be reflecting some light. he he Black is the absence of color, which our brain visualizes to us in some way.


51 posted on 08/22/2016 12:46:50 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (VMFA 235 '69-72)
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To: sparklite2

How about off-white people. Shady people. Dark people. Someday “people of color” will be a no-no, and they’ll be called brown people. Doesn’t matter, the stigma and revulsion in use of a term is because of what the term represents. If you take pride in what your skin color represents, you accept the term and don’t get riled at it. Maybe they would be happy being called rainbow people - except that was taken by the butt bangers. A lot of us are cynical, and it isn’t going to end.


52 posted on 08/22/2016 12:49:22 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Altura Ct.

Amy, you ignorant slut!


53 posted on 08/22/2016 12:49:27 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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54 posted on 08/22/2016 12:49:39 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: sparklite2

We can’t say “colored people”, but is “people of color” still okay? This is insanity. How can anybody ever think creatively if they go along with this PC BS?


55 posted on 08/22/2016 12:50:57 PM PDT by grania
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To: HiTech RedNeck

56 posted on 08/22/2016 12:50:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Red Badger

And there it is.


57 posted on 08/22/2016 12:51:06 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: roadcat

Please do not use “butt bangers” and “end” in the same paragraph.


58 posted on 08/22/2016 12:51:34 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: AU72

“People of Color” is such a progressive erudite way of expressing it, but “Colored People” is ignorant and offensive.

Get it?


59 posted on 08/22/2016 12:53:20 PM PDT by Lucas McCain (Liberalism is the willful embrace of abject stupidity.)
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To: ichabod1

Oh, I get it, so instead of bubble boy, it’s boy in a bubble, and instead of pajama boy its boy in pajamas and...


well, yes. ;)


60 posted on 08/22/2016 12:53:50 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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