african american whaaaaa??????

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
Reality? The kind of identities we're speaking of reside solely in peoples minds - they have the same kind of reality as do dreams, aspirations, prejudices. Why should someone born and bread in America identify as Italian? I don't deny that some do, but I find it even less sensible than what you normally get with socioethnic identities.

So? Believing in Christianity can be something that resides soley in a person's mind. Same with being a Yankees fan, a mathematician, or dozens of other things. The fact that it is a state of mind does not make it false.

Besides, the kind of identities we're talking about are not just about beliefs. I'm Chinese-Canadian. Physically, I'm partially Chinese. To deny that is crazy.

Everyone describes themselves in different ways. This does not irreparable divide us. These are just statement of facts.

To object to hyphenated nationalities is like saying you object to people calling themselves Yankee fans.

[Al B. Sure!]

chegitz, i'd love to respond but i stopped reading at this point..

Have you ever noticed how Black people tend not to speak English properly?

even you're a racist. what kind of sick world is this?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
chegitz, i'd love to respond but i stopped reading at this point..

even you're a racist. what kind of sick world is this?

Yeah, whatever, Speer. If you wanna pretend that Black English Vernacular is the same thing as Standard American English, you go ahead and live in your own little world.

[Space05us]

A bit on topic and a bit off my friend has recently taken to calling me wigger or ******, wigger while around people, ****** while amongst friends.

The Eskimos up here call white people tunnuks**, its supposed to be derogitory* but I've gotten so used to it being used in everyday speach I honestly cant believe for a second they really mean it as an insult.

I also call my Eskimo friends Indians and my Indian friends Eskimos, they dont like that too much.

not once in my life have I refered to a black person as African American, and not once in my life have I been told to do so by anyone other than a white person.

*Im too lazy to check my spelling
**thats not spelled right Im sure, but Im not going to even venture a guess as to what the appropriate spelling is.



off the topic a wee bit, I found out the other day that I really am an apprentice turd-herder!

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to work I go!!

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Albert Speer

even you're a racist. what kind of sick world is this?

Strong words coming from someone who made an insensitive, distasteful comment about interracial couples awhile back.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well he's only dishing out what che has done. He seems to through around the racist charge almost as much as Al Sharpton.

[JohnT]

I'm a racist even though I spearheaded a minority recruitment initiative at my parents place, and prefer to use the term African-American, even to the point of insisting that it is the polite thing to do unless otherwise asked.

Che's a racist even though he is married to an African-American.

Speers not a racist because he and his buds are comfortable throwing the word ****** around.

[MrFun]

I have no problems with blacks using the word "******" among themselves.

Just as I use the word "******" or "queer" when I'm with friends who I know will see my use of those words as being playful and when I know it's the right time and place to use those words.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by JohnT
I'm a racist even though I spearheaded a minority recruitment initiative at my parents place, and prefer to use the term African-American, even to the point of insisting that it is the polite thing to do unless otherwise asked.

Good on you John. A) for starting a minority recruitment initiative and B) for wanting to do the polite thing.

The extreme PC thing pisses me off as much as the next person (What's so wrong with using the word "oriental"), but in the end, political correctness is about being polite. Respect the other person. What's so wrong about that.

[Last Conformist]

To object to hyphenated nationalities is like saying you object to people calling themselves Yankee fans.

I do object to people identifying as Yankee fans.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Last Conformist

To object to hyphenated nationalities is like saying you object to people calling themselves Yankee fans.

I do object to people identifying as Yankee fans.

Nah, I don't object. I just think why?

[Al B. Sure!]

Imran:

i only call liberals and leftists racists. i have enough sense to know conservatives are not racist.

[Al B. Sure!]

and i dont say ******, johnt. it's just plain a nasty word. you can tell a word is bad when the sound of the consonents and what not just sound derogatory.

then again, a lot of german sounds the same way but still

[JohnT]

Then I am utterly flummoxed by your response to my initial post in this thread.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Imran:

i only call liberals and leftists racists. i have enough sense to know conservatives are not racist.

You're no better then racists then, if you are so bigoted as to label liberals and leftists racists.