Great thread D. I dislike PC thoroughly. I tend to agree with mp.
Consider I mentioned many women get assaulted during their trip through Mexico to cross the border illegally. I was accused of being racist for saying it. Forget that I got it from a Mexican priest. Just one example. I think PC stifles honest dialogue. Often the truth offends
someone.
Good thing Mike Royko's dead!
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Back in the day there was this older black guy I worked with...Sam Charles was his name. I remember one day, back in the late 60's, Sam went on a rant at work..."What's this Afro-American shit? I don't play that. I ain't no African!!!" Pissed off some of the younger black guys on the shop floor. And every time James Brown's "Say It Loud...I'm Black and I'm Proud!" came on the radio, Sam would crank it up.
And then in 1989 Jesse Jackson saw a poem on a "Black History" calendar and he decided that his people were no longer "black" but "African American". The media bought it because it was Jesse. And ever since, depending on who I happened to be with, to one level or another, I was nervous using either term. What's a well-intentioned white boy to do???
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Dig a hole and crawl in it, we're screwed boy!
Or go with what my... step Grandmother? (uncle's wife's mother) would say in polite company, in a hushed voice - 'the Darker Ones'
I say black. If it offends anyone I'll require them to call me English-Czechoslovakian-Irish-Polish-- and a teeny touch of German - American lol. Limey and Pollack? Instant death Bob
Pete