longstranger
2/11/2010 5:08:55 PM PST
No matter what you do, someone is going to take exception to and start a "contrversy. I'm sticking with black, and, I don't like being called whiteboy or honky, but I do consider the source. The PC crowd should stop inventing racial intolerance. Did you catch the Asian backlash on the "yellow" line? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a color is just a color
longstranger
2/11/2010 5:03:26 PM PST
Puh-lease. I'm old enough to remember when Negro was PC, and no white person was being direspectful when they used it MLK used it all the time. OK we get it. "they" didn't like it, so we went to "Black". I can remember two "Black" guys arguing who was the blackest, so I had some aversion to the term. By the late "60's it was the PC. Black was in OK. Then along comess JJ (Jesse Jackson). He decides that Afro-American is the new PC. OK we acquiese. Though I still used black everywhere but in public, I gave in to Afro-American in my colledge commounication clas. Afro- American fell quickly out of vogue, and "we" went back to black.Fine, we don't want to be insensitive. Then, somewhere in the late 80"s early 90's JJ decides its African-American. Land this plane. I'm using black
Kathleen
1/10/2010 12:53:06 PM PST
" Blasting the term" ? I heard the audio from the radio program. I didn't hear any blasting or shouting or anything that could be taken as overtly racial. It was a discussion of a term used to describe a group of people on the census . So now its even politically incorrect to do that or to challenge the status quo, unless your black or hispanic then its ok . Like when Jesse Jackson called President Obama a "n" word it was ok . No bias on the article as written here , uh ok ? I am enjoying the outrage .
solo774
1/9/2010 12:13:43 PM PST
You are correct Beck; African-American does NOT describe a race: it describes the Nationality of a people born in America, whose ancestors were brought to America from Africa as Slaves, hence African-Americans. Your ancestors tried to erase our ancestry, but it didn’t work then, it doesn’t work now and it won’t work in the future, so stop trying. We African-Americans are a people not a color. If using skin color works for you, then fine, but don’t try to tell us or any other beautiful Americans of any race, creed, color or nationality, that African-American is not acceptable. It is not acceptable only to bigots and racists and as&h9les of all kinds, because the term African-American is the respectable way to refer to black folks in the technological age of the 21st century.
gtm1144
1/9/2010 7:39:50 AM PST
Glenn Beck is an A__. All his sponsers should drop advertising for this man so full of hate and destorts truths....Legs get rid of him from the air waves.
tomnjerry527
1/9/2010 5:35:17 AM PST
It is all true. My wife is from Brazil. She has been offended on several occasions when someone has refered to her as "African American." At first, it was not so much to her, even somewhat humorous.
Now, she sometimes gets very upset and will quickly point out that neither she, nor anyone of her ancestery has been to Africa, nor America until now.
She says that she is either "latina" or simply Brazilian!"
She will even, to some degree go with negro or black..
But, she is definitely "not" "African American!"
