How insulting is Colored (vs. African American) - Page 8

DrPhil · #**106** 07-01-2009, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Anything else?

Yeah, you're an idiot.

DaemonSeid · #**107** 07-01-2009, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Yeah, you're an idiot.

Classy...and your mama wears combat boots...like I should give 2 shits about your opinion, go play.

pshsx1 · #**108** 07-01-2009, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by madmax

your people

Hm. Didn't we discuss the offense of those two words together?

DrPhil · #**109** 07-01-2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

like I should give 2 shits about your opinion

You do and it is sad.

DrPhil · #**110** 07-01-2009, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by pshsx1

Hm. Didn't we discuss the offense of those two words together?

Hello, let me introduce you to madmax. He's trying to offend.

DaemonSeid · #**111** 07-01-2009, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

You do and it is sad.

and sadder still, you love me.

that's why you talk to me.

**CLICK!**

MysticCat · #**112** 07-01-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

Cracker isn't half as hateful as the word colored used the context and meaning you're using and Mumia wasn't a murderer. He was targeted by the police for what he wrote about them. Any pigs that may have died definately deserved it.

Regardless of what Mumia or anyone else may have done, count me in as disagreeing that any police officers "deserved" to die.

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So does anyone who disagrees with that sentiment.

So does that mean I deserve to die as well?

ThetaPrincess24 · #**113** 07-01-2009, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Regardless of what Mumia or anyone else may have done, count me in as disagreeing that any police officers "deserved" to die.
So does that mean I deserve to die as well?

I agree with you MysticCat!

christiangirl · #**114** 07-01-2009, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by pshsx1

Hm. Didn't we discuss the offense of those two words together?

I was going to say something, but then again...

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Hello, let me introduce you to madmax. He's trying to offend.

...there you have it.

And has this little bit of banter really progressed to "your mama" jokes? Srsly? Next will come, "Talk to the hand" if y'all keep it up long enough. Then we'll be forced to have a "Food to eat while watching the DS vs. DP thread" thread.

DrPhil · #**115** 07-01-2009, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

And has this little bit of banter really progressed to "your mama" jokes? Srsly? Next will come, "Talk to the hand" if y'all keep it up long enough. Then we'll be forced to have a "Food to eat while watching the DS vs. DP thread" thread.

shut up

tld221 · #**116** 07-01-2009, 07:51 PM

:bringing e-popcorn:

...called it. I mean since I have all the time in the world, with not working, disrespecting myself, and breaking the law.

agzg · #**117** 07-01-2009, 09:23 PM

This may just be me but I don't generally refer to someone's race when I'm talking to them. I'm pretty sure they know their race. It comes up maybe... once every 100 or so conversations.

MysticCat · #**118** 07-01-2009, 10:07 PM

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This may just be me but I don't generally refer to someone's race when I'm talking to them. I'm pretty sure they know their race. It comes up maybe... once every 100 or so conversations.

LOL. I had that same thought.

33girl · #**119** 07-01-2009, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

I use the word colored with my friends pretty often when referring to us as a group or something like that. (They are mostly Hispanic.)

I would not mind if an older person or most other people using it in a non-offensive way referred to me as colored. I am colored. I am Black. I am American. I am Jamaican. What I don't like, is the term African-American. I will correct someone on that.

I assume you don't like it because you're not from Africa, which makes perfect sense. But how is someone supposed to know that? Are there noticeable differences in features or skin color?

I'm not trying to stir the pot here, just honestly asking.

This makes me think of an old WWII propaganda poster I saw once, the jist of which was "how to tell a Chinese person from a Japanese person so you're not unnecessarily mean to the Chinese person since it's not them we're pissed off at."

DrPhil · #**120** 07-01-2009, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

I assume you don't like it because you're not from Africa, which makes perfect sense. But how is someone supposed to know that? Are there noticeable differences in features or skin color?

No, there usually aren't features and skin color differences.

She and all other people of the African diaspora will just have to take it on a case-by-case basis. Being Jamaican or Brazilian, for example, are not racial designations. Black and African American are pretty standard. People can specify their cultural or ethnic designations from there. Black and African American are the least offensive and least nitpicky of the category labels, as far as I'm concerned. They originated for a reason.

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This makes me think of an old WWII propaganda poster I saw once, the jist of which was "how to tell a Chinese person from a Japanese person so you're not unnecessarily mean to the Chinese person since it's not them we're pissed off at."

I consider that different than "Black people" from all over the globe. Chinese and Japanese are not only culturally but ethnically distinct within the "Asian" racial category. I can usually tell the difference because the different Asian ethnicities tend to have different physical features.

Does anyone remember the martial arts film "Chinese vs. Japanese?" Great film. A lot of people didn't know there WAS a difference before that film was released in America.