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I can remember a time when I was growing up that the term “people of color” was racist, neither black nor white are colors after all. It was always to be referred to as “African- American, Mexican-American, Scottish-American, etc.” but to say someone was a “person of color” was racist. Now all the liberals seems to be using that term.
So is it or is it not racist?
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Approved terminology changes with wind direction, and some folks think it's everyone's responsibility to keep up with preferences. I was chastised the other day for using African-American, and was told that it is racist and that Black is the approved terminology. I thanked them for educating me on their preferences, and went on my way. PoC is OK in some circles as well. Whatever. These days, racist seems to depend on the audience, with folks going out of their way to be the first to decry perceived racism.
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One of my best friends in basic was a black guy with a name of C White..We ended up being best of friends...I have no issue with blacks as he didn't with whites...Between my mouth and his name we were in the running for most pushups ever at Benning..
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What happened to being just an American--no hyphens ?
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It is if they say it is That is all you need to know Proceed accordingly
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That is exactly we were told in all the sexual awereness classes
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People of color or white supremacist...Chit happens and we all move on..
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What happened to being just an American--no hyphens ? What he said. If you call yourself an African-American you get to chose. Go to live in Africa or stay in America as an American. Ditto with the Mexicans.
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People should read the speech Teddy Roosevelt made in 1911 Viking so true so true Semper FI
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What happened to being just an American--no hyphens ? Exactly!!! No such thing as an African American! You are either African or American ! I have French and Irish in my family roots . I don’t refer to myself as Irish or French American. I’m an American .
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I'm so sick of it all, I just call em what they are till they change my mind.
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NAACP
National Council of Negro Women
National Negro Business League
National Black Justice Coalition
And the list goes on and on.
Where is my race represented in America?
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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People should read the speech Teddy Roosevelt made in 1911 Viking so true so true Semper FI "Man in the arena" speech? If not it's still one of my favorites.... "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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NAACP
National Council of Negro Women
National Negro Business League
National Black Justice Coalition
And the list goes on and on.
Where is my race represented in America?
The history books, til they're all banned.
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as anyone else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
October 12, 1915: Theodore Roosevelt on “Americanism”
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NAACP
National Council of Negro Women
National Negro Business League
National Black Justice Coalition
And the list goes on and on.
Where is my race represented in America?
WE are the "PRIVLEDGED" - who get to support all the welfare, WIC using, non-working scum in this country - of ALL colors!
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People should read the speech Teddy Roosevelt made in 1911 Viking so true so true Semper FI "Man in the arena" speech? If not it's still one of my favorites.... "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Don't care what political affiliations there are...that is one of the finest pieces of written word I have seen.
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Libs are always changing the meaning and use of words. There was a time when saying "people of color" was their polite way of not saying Ni gg er.
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