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re: Your mind will wrap itself in knots if you ponder the term 'African American'
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:15 pm to weagle99
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:15 pm to weagle99
I know a white guy who was born and raised in South Africa and when he moved to the US as a teenager and then applied for colleges, he was told he couldn't put "African" or "African American" on his applications because he was the wrong color.
It would be comical if it weren't so insane. Liberalism is a mental illness.
It would be comical if it weren't so insane. Liberalism is a mental illness.
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Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:34 pm to FooManChoo
quote:It's just a flawed term to use for a fundamentally flawed trait (race), which relies on arbitrary and reductionistic categorization.
It would be comical if it weren't so insane.
But your example is not insane, since we all know the meaning, even if it's terribly flawed. Just like I'm technically a Native American, but I know that is not what the mean when the ask what my race is.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:38 pm to weagle99
First off I'd like to say that I'm flattered that you take up so much of your time thinking about us. 
Then what will really put your mind in knots is how so many self-proclaimed non-racists take issue with "African American". There are at least a dozen of these posts started every year just at TD. Yet not one of these people have ever started a post and had a similar issue with "Asian American". Maybe you and your kind (that start and respond to these posts) just spend more of your time thinking about us. Again, I'm flattered from the attention.
Then what will really put your mind in knots is how so many self-proclaimed non-racists take issue with "African American". There are at least a dozen of these posts started every year just at TD. Yet not one of these people have ever started a post and had a similar issue with "Asian American". Maybe you and your kind (that start and respond to these posts) just spend more of your time thinking about us. Again, I'm flattered from the attention.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:39 pm to bamarep
quote:
Blacks are STILL enduring oppression in the mother land they claim to be so proud of that they went thru here 200 years ago. And it's at the hands of other blacks.
Is that racially based or tribal/class based ?
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:40 pm to FooManChoo
You should be embarrassed that this confuses you.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:40 pm to roadGator
Yes. Bracing myself for a troll here.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:41 pm to ballscaster
Well, I can't now that you said yes. Wait, yes I can.
What is his name?
:rimshot:
What is his name?
:rimshot:
This post was edited on 3/3/17 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:42 pm to roadGator
His name was "roadgator's mom." Dropped two digits.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:42 pm to Easy
All the hyphenated terms are stupid, including 'European American.'
Asian American might have the best case though because we don't call them 'yellows'.
Indian Americans are different from American Indians, or are they?
Asian American might have the best case though because we don't call them 'yellows'.
Indian Americans are different from American Indians, or are they?
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:43 pm to weagle99
I've explained all of this but you just wanna call it dumb I guess.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:43 pm to L.A.
quote:
I'm not so sure about that. 100 years ago Irish immigrants were called Irish, not Irish-Americans. Or they were called worse. It's one reason European immigrants from that era tried to assimilate ASAP. There was quite a bit of bigotry aimed at immigrants. The sooner one assimilated, the better it was for that person
That says more about the bigoted Americans at that time than it does the immigrants.
Hmmm...eerily similar
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:44 pm to ballscaster
I haven't read all the posts
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:45 pm to weagle99
quote:
Asian American might have the best case though because we don't call them 'yellows'.
Yeah I can't say what I call them.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:47 pm to ballscaster
Meh. You messed up the original joke anyway. Damn it.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:48 pm to weagle99
Where I grew up it was very common for people to refer to themselves as Irish American, polish American, etc. Once during school kids were all saying what they "were" for some reason. It may have been part of the class but everybody was asking everybody else. Whatever. This was prior to African American being popular. What I remember is a white girl asking me what I was and then stopping saying "Oh wait. You're not anything you're just black". I knew that she didn't mean it like it sounded but it stung. So I kinda like the term African American.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:48 pm to Easy
Easy, my man. James Baldwin said it best. "White Americans needs to ask themselves why they need to have the n***** in the first place." It's their invention. Blacks are men first. The obsession with race (their invention) is at times mind-boggling and worrisome. Why must t exist?
You cannot ask those that didn't not set these terms to ride the world of these terms.
You cannot ask those that didn't not set these terms to ride the world of these terms.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:50 pm to StrongSafety
rid
The e at the end of ride makes the "i" long as in ice.
The e at the end of ride makes the "i" long as in ice.
This post was edited on 3/3/17 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:52 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
White Americans needs to ask themselves why they need to have the n***** in the first place.
Cheap labor
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:53 pm to StrongSafety
quote:What's our invention? Slavery?
It's their invention.
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