Posted on 06/30/2023 9:08:43 AM PDT by Reno89519
Don't forget teens.
You used the word "racist" three times in a single sentence.
Can you define it?
Many years ago I worked with a young Black woman who had a white German Shepherd. It was named ‘Whitey’.
She said White passersby would look at her funny when she went outside to call Whitey in...
Teens in many reports dealing with crime.
Actually whether we call them Negro, Colored, Black, black or African-American, I can guarantee some portion them will be offended. Maybe we need to call them by the most popular word, they call themselves.
“People of a protected class”
/sarc
When discussing music history in my college class:
If a music title has the term in it, like Coleridge-Taylor's 24 Negro Melodies for Piano, Op. 59, I don't remove the term, *** it, or try to change it.
When I am discussing "Negro spirituals" from the 19th or early 20th century, I don't change the term.
When I discuss Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige, I reference the premiere performance at Carnegie Hall in 1943 where Ellington says, "This is the one we dedicate to the 700 Negroes who came from Haiti to save Savannah during the Revolutionary War," and I don't change it.
OTOH, there is nothing gained by referring to Lizzo or Rihanna or Beyonce as a "Nigress"; I don't even think that was used to describe Aretha Franklin or Diana Ross in the 60s, even though the concept of Negritude was a common topic among Black writers of the time.
In short, it's a term that is relevant to its historical use, that is no longer used in common parlance, so there is nothing gained by attempting to bring it back, but something lost by attempting to act like it never existed.
Easy to default to a dictionary definition, such as "characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized." but that doesn't really get to the heart of it.
I prefer a more concrete example: If Black Student Union or Black Chamber of Commerce are okay but White Student Union and White Chamber of Commerce are not, that is racist just the same as when there were different water fountains for each race.
Dated? I am freaking dated. I do not adopt the opinions of others because of current fashion.
Anthropology defines the races, not the NYT or other liberal rags.
The only people “concerned” with being concerned, are those that care only about virtue signaling.
I watched an interview recently with an older black woman, and she had always referred to herself and those around her as “black”.
She said she never understood why it changed at some point to “African American”, which she rejected.
When I was young, Negro and negroid were the polite and correct terms for the common more vulgar terms frequently used. That stuck with me and see no reason to be fashionable.
American
Call them what you want. But stop using a Capital B when writing about blacks.
A good black friend of mine in the 70s was called Whitey for years. He didn’t mind and called himself.
He and his grandparents were very fine people. He went from being a skinny little kid to a bulked up Chicago cop
In the restaurant business, they’re known as Southern Canadians, mainly because so few tip appropriately or at all. I prefer black with no capitalization because white is not afforded the same courtesy according to the AP style guide.
Bingo
Have you looked at the etymology of those words? You make it offensive because of your feelings. Words have actual historical meanings.
Obama his ownself said the N word in a nationally broadcast interview while he was president. I don’t use that word by choice but Obama’s ownself can say it anyone can. This is America right?
Liberals use words to control people.
They constantly screw around with the language and demand that we adopt their new terminology. If we don’t, it’s heresy.
Negro is just Spanish for black. It all means the same f’n thing. They’re just pulling a power play on you.
Call them whatever you want. It’s called free speech for a reason.
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