it’s RACIST to use the word colored. wtf. why is that a bad word? what’s next?
on 12/22/2011 at 02:27 PM
mid 70s? Oh, at least. My granny used to refer to “the colored” which I think was even worse. When I was very young a certain group was happy to be called negro, which was a step up.
Problem is, there is NO right term for “caucs” to use to refer to those who aren’t, depending on what time it is. Choose your term for darker folks, and at one point it’s been passe. Pretty sure the same goes for several other races around the world ... and Allah help you if you say, when speaking of a group in general, “you people”. Because that’s stereotyping, and therefore raaaacist. Especially if what you say happens to be 99.7% accurate.
But let us never forget that BHO’s granny was “a typical white person”, and that was OK for him to say. Because this highway is truly a one way street. Got that yet, ya damn cracka?
Yea Drew, This honkie’s down with that!
A brief history as I understand it.
Here in the U.S.,going back to the 50’s and early 60’s, Negro was considered the proper word for referring to people of African ancestry just as Caucasian was use to refer to people of European ancestry. Colored was used as well, but it was more generic, referring as well to anyone who wasn’t Caucasian. Words like spade, suede and spook were used as well by people who considered themselves “hip”. Jig or jiggaboo were also used and whether they were positive or negative depended on the context of the statement.
Nigger stood alone, but with two different contexts. The first was historical. In the 19th Century, it was a normal term for Negro people and was commonly used. By the 1960’s it’s use was pretty much limited to red neck bigots of various sorts. Most people didn’t use the word nigger because they didn’t want to be associated with small minded, often violent, bigotry. People of decency and learning used the words Negro or colored to differentiate themselves from people who were small minded and ignorant.
Later in the 60’s, with the rise of the Black Pride/Black Power movement, black became the preferred term. Most people didn’t care that much, but if Negros wanted to be called black, it was no big deal.
Then came the term African-American. That one itched a bit, creating a division within the concept of being American. I had friends and family associated with the early Civil Rights Movement and the first and foremost principle was that we were all Americans. Again though, most people didn’t really care. It was a matter of go along, get along.
These days, there stands a host of people and organizations ready to pounce, with tar and feathers on anyone who doesn’t use the politically correct word of the moment. Unless that is unless you’re a Negro/colored/black, in which case, it’s almost required for you to show unity by calling yourself a nigger.
I guess small minded bigotry has come full circle.
I always wondered what that C in NAACP stood for.
Anyone see the video of the “J. Bunnies’s” & Wetbacks getting, stealing, lootin and robbin for their Nike Air Jordan sneakers?
Take away the shopping mall facades and replace them with jungle vines and rain forests.
The action would remain the same,
12/22/2011 at 04:01 PM
12/23/2011 at 12:28 AM
