Re: sturdy old apple

[MR_ED_of_Course <OhNoSPAM@pacbell.net>]

in article Rick-4A4028.22265210082004@news.telus.net, Rick at Rick@dot.dot
wrote on 8/10/04 10:26 PM:

> In article <86d61y7k6v.fsf@my.domain>, dgk@my.domain (Dowe G. Keller)
> wrote:
> 
>> glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) writes:
>> 
>>> In article <XixNc.21114$K16.20888@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>,
>>> Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>    That all seems to boil down to "it's just wrong."
>>>> 
>>>> Same vein as its socially inappropriate to refer to someone who is black,
>>>> as
>>>> "nigger" or Hispanic as "spic". You're asking why terms like these are
>>> 
>>> These days, it's inappropriate to refer to someone who is black as black.
>>> People of color is old-fashioned, but I think still acceptable.  But the
>>> standard term is African American.  Even if you walk past a group of
>>> Nigerians on a college campus, talking to each other in their own
>>> language, they are African Americans.
>>> 
>>> At least that's been the impression I've gotten from those that enforce
>>> grammar rules.
>> 
>> What about a Dutch descended South African who immigrates to the US?
> 
> Afrikaner-American?

I would mostly likely call her Michelle or Peter, as those are the two that
I know who fit the description.  IOW, I usually don't find any reason to use
any of those superficially descriptive terms for myself or others.

I'm mixed.  I nice blend of lots of backgrounds...a mutt if you will.  I've
never heard anyone use the term "black" maliciously.  There are far more
hateful terms easily available for anyone with the educational level typical
of someone who would use one of those terms.  As such it doesn't bother me.

I'd rather not hear anything at all.

The one thing that offends me more often than "black" or for that matter
even the n-word is when fuckwads do surveys or other forms as such:

___ Caucasian

___ Asian

___ Hispanic

___ Native American

___ Black

Choose one of the above.