Politically Correct term bites the dust
 

It's Black. Not African American.



Otherwise, the saying would NOT be Black Lives Matter.

I agree. The term "African American" is racist. :yesnod:

Classifying people outside of sovereignty is racist, sexist, or ageist.

Every black guy that hangs around my buddy's shop has said they find "African American" offensive. The term "black" really only comes up if someone is describing what someone looks like.

I have never used it. I came from a peaceful mixed race neighborhood and black, negro, colored were very well accepted names. At age 75 I see no reason to change.

I always thought "colored" worked.....I mean when I am referred to as "white" I'm fine with that.

United Negro College Fund

National association for the Advancement of Colored People

I’m very confused. And kind of peachy colored.

Congressional Black Caucus.

Black Entertainment Television.



NOT African-American Entertainment Television.

Sounds peachy keen to ME......:seasix::rofl:

BET Bob Johnson.....owned a house in Potomac Md....just off Falls Rd.

back some 40? years ago, I got referenced as an installer for the local hardware chain....Hechingers......so I did a week's worth of work in his house.....we only met once briefly.....I didn't know him from anyone else, BUT was told just HOO HE WAS by my friends at Hechingers....

Been a while....:seasix:

Every black person I know has referred to themselves as 'black' (or dark green when I was in the Marines). Never heard anyone but politicians call them(selves) 'African' American.

I NEVER heard a black person I encountered on the streets refer to themselves, or any other black person as African American. Giving descriptions of witnesses/suspects/whomever ... not once.

White people, maybe 50% of the time they would describe someone as AA.

Whenever I used the term, nobody but nobody ever took offense or even acted like they were.

"Unit 504 I'm out with one black male, Maple and Walnut, citizen contact." - Never got one complaint from this or any other use of the term.

Soooooooo

Nigger.

In or out? I hear them use it constantly. Should be OK right?

You can say it if you are one.:yesnod:

so if that's a no-go, then you cannot read Huck Finn.

I'm not picky about what people of other races call me. Either "Sir" or "Boss" is just fine.:yesnod:

Yes Master.

I just go with citizen or American.


Usually starts up a conversation but it never ends in emotions.

That'll do.:rofl:

you back talking me?

You talking to me, boy?

in about 1986, i was assigned to the Hatch Nuclear Power plant in Georgia. nearest city is Vidalia (of sweet onion fame), and that's where i ended up for a few months. one day, i get a nail in my tire, so I need to get it plugged at the local service station. so i drive over, go inside to ask about having my tire plugged, and the lady says "go around to the garage, the boy will take care of you". the boy. i do as directed, and there i find a very muscular black man, sweating like crazy and working on another tire. he helps me out, i thank him, and never see him again. that was the attitude of some back then. might be the attitude of some today.

I can tell you from my days in high school in the 60s, if you wanted to bait a black guy into a fight, the "B" word was far more serious than the "N" word. But that was Northern California in the 60s. YMMV.

Yes, "boy" is another double-standard word. :shrug:

I put "American American" on any form requesting race.

Clearly racist music video:

look at the overall picture; many allowed ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC to coerce the population to use "african american"... even though that race didn't themselves want it.

Stop allowing the media to influence us all !

Brief story about my dad and black people. My dad was born in 1923 in Baltimore. He grew up during the depression. By the time I was born, he was totally okay with black people. Probably had something to do with his bomber group being escorted by the Tuskeegee Airmen numerous times during WWII.

In our household, The N word was pretty much prohibited, at least for the children. We were taught that colored people was the polite term to use.

Around 1980 when my dad was an aircraft mechanic for United Airlines at SFO nearing retirement, he got to experience having a black boss for the first time in his life. He told me on day one he told the new boss "I can call you Afro American, I can call you Colored, but I can't bring myself to call you black because where I grew up the word black was followed by another word that began with a B." He was, of course referring to Black Bastard, a common term I heard from others in the 50s.

The new boss said he understood and they got along great for the several years before my dad retired.

So everybody can have a different viewpoint on these things and it all has to do with when and where you grew up and how those around you spoke. And it's all just words, something too many people get wound up about in my opinion.