Posted on 04/04/2018 10:34:39 AM PDT by rktman
Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.
Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.
Parker made the remarks on Jan. 22 while speaking at a party meeting in Jacksonville and apologized after the initial uproar from those present at the Burrito Gallery restaurant, where he was holding forth.
“Why would you still think that ‘colored’ was cool? Because to me it’s a Jim Crow terminology and it’s unacceptable,” Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks told First Coast News.
Some in the black community say Parker’s choice of words represent a pattern.
At the now infamous Burrito meeting, his critics claim he also bemoaned the affects of racial integration while others accuse him of using the description “mayor’s mammy” and calling the Working People Caucus the “Poor Black People Working Caucus.”
When first challenged for his colored people remarks, Parker told Politico that it was all a misunderstanding.
“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color,” Parker said. He also denied allegations that he had used pejorative terms for blacks in the past, insisting the comments “did not happen.”
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NAACP=National Asso. for the Advancement of COLORED People. By Red on Red do you mean Con vs Con?
What would Winnie Mandella do?
People of color vs colored people - sounds the same to me. The problem is of course, the ‘colored people’ was a southern term used to demean these people; same as the term ‘darkie’.
Since the Democrat party insists on telling white people that brown people and black people are discriminated against by white people - is it any wonder that color terms are used in language now by everyone.
These people need to lighten up - or - quit using the terms of color completely. The of people’s skin is irrelevent.
You forgot “People of White”...don’t you DARE say “white people”.
Tire necklace? But, she dead.
Years ago a DC gummint entity fired a guy for using the word NIGGARDLY.
The context? He was criticizing a BUDGET —the word was correct and condign.
You know what his self-defense actually was..?
“But I am a GAY man..!”
His defense was NOT, “Hey, that’s a real word...”
I’m never one to stop red on red fire, but just what exactly does NAACP stand for?
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Negroes
Are
Always
Causing
Problems
Color me human. If one thinks about people in “colors”, you aren’t a conservative. And if you insist on thinking in colors, we don’t want you in our conservative movement. We only want constitutional conservatives. All are equal in God’s eyes under our philosophy.
I also love it when the Lefties eat their own because of political correctness.
So it should be changed to NAAPOC ... pronounced NAY-POK ...?
NAALCP is RAYCISS!
Can we still use Michelle Malkin’s term “Progressives of Pallor” to describe white liberals?
NAACP was unavailable for comment.
Isn’t it now “NAAPOC”?
She’d ban black tires on white-owned vehicles.
This is so funny. Enjoying!
Meanwhile, Dark Skinned Black Women still hate Lighter Skinned Black Women. They know it and we know it.
Inside every Moochelle Obama is a Halle Berry crying to escape.
There is a song
I was colored, when colored wasn’t cool.
Trying to remember who did it a parody type of person
It’s getting so confusing, which color lays claim ? Blacks getting knickers in a twist, browns, reds, yellows. It needs to be re-separated instead of combined. ‘negros of color’, ‘Hispanics of color’, ‘natives of color’, ‘Asians of color’, ‘muzzies of color’. Or better yet just use the first word and drop the ‘of color’ off like it used to be. I live in high desert country and in spring/summer become a ‘cracker-greengo-round eyes-infadel’ of color’ from being in the sun.
How about we go back to calling Negros, Negros?
Negro is a race, black is just another color in the crayon box.
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