Posted on 11/09/2014 9:53:16 AM PST by Bettyprob
Very interesting film, very patriotic. It was set in a black church with a preacher addressing an all-black well-dressed congregation about the importance of the struggle the country was engaged in against the Nazis and Japan--he read a few sentences from Mein Kampf to make the point about Nazi racism.
There were lots of clips showing black American soldiers in all the earlier wars, clips highlighting black Americans who had made major contributions to America, a monument in France to the black American soldiers who fought in France in WWI (with the word Negro clearly visible on the monument) and then it being blown to pieces by the Germans, and lots of scenes showing the son of one of the parishioners as he entered the army and went through basic training. There was a bit on the Tuskegee airmen also.
What a gulf between the attitudes portrayed in that film and those of the last 40-50 years.
And you darned well better not call me Caucasian or I’ll start me a riot.
Oh, I love it. Thanks SevenofNine !
What are they calling white African-Americans?
I understand its roots. But my real point is they are treating the word like they treat the word “crippled”. They keep changing the word because they think the label itself is what is bad when, clearly, the new label du-jur ends up having the same “meaning” as the last one. For them, it’s not the label, but the thing itself that is bad. They give that away with their attitude about the label.
This obviously does not include intentional derogatory terms like Ni**er, jungle bunny, etc. Those are MEANT to be derogatory, but not germane to this issue.
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