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Old 06-21-2002, 05:41 PM
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Re: Shoot

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Originally posted by Rudey



Also, I find it very annoying for people to use the term "white"...maybe you do for black. I'm sorry, but I just don't know what "white" means. I really really don't.

-Rudey
--Still amazed that lovelyivy used Schtick



So what do you prefer then? EVERYONE has a different idea on what they want to be called- I like Black but many don't, some like African-American, shoot some folks are still saying Negro.

But white is not now, nor has it ever been seen as a pejorative term, unlike umm...black.

I guess I just wonder why you would have a problem with that?

And FYI, I majored in english. Words are my business and I know a lot of them. Be surprised if I said that something was risible, not that I used the word schtick, lol.
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