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People of dark-skinned race : what do YOU prefer to be called?

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This is interesting. My son is what I grew up calling black and my wife and I are 'white'. He is five now and we take is lead in the issue that he is brown skinned and we are light skinned. Its an obvious statement for someone that is five. No reason to associate the issue with stigma.

We usually have a kid from Africa in the house for a few months at a time that has come to the US for philanthropic medical services. My son says that they are 'dark skinned' and associates just as closely with them as he does his friends from school who come in all shades as well.

I think it really depends on the person and what stigmas got attached to certain names or distinctions by parents or peers when they grew up.



 
As long as I'm white, they're black.

Once I'm european-american, they'll be african-american, and our economy will crash from lowered productivity since we now can no longer speak for fear of political incorrectness.
 
Originally posted by: alanalafriz
why dont we just address them as mister or miss or ask for his name...
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Because sometimes "that negro over there" is the only way to identify him. Maybe I don't know him.
 
I say "black" if referring to an abstract, theoretical person or people ("black people have..."), or call them by their name, nickname, "you," or "he/she" if referring to an actual person ("John said..." "he went..." "are you...?")

Of course, this is coming from a Bavario-Anglo-Scots-Irish-Saxon-Franco-Istrio-Amerindian-American.
 
I prefer to be called by my parental given name or if that isnt known, hey black guy. I kid I kid, but honestly I never approved of being called Afro-American or African-American, term I grew up with and still go by is black.
 
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
I call a spade a spade. They are black. and white people are white. and fat people are fat. Retarded people are retards. And so on.
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spade used to be a rascist term iirc
 
I know 2 people from South Africa, and they are white, yet couldn't they be called African-American too? Also where I am from most of the blacks are from Haiti. You wouldn't call them African-American would you? Haitian-American would be more appropriate, or perhaps African-Haitian-American. But then if you start going by country I'd be a British-German-Irish-Italian-American.
 
interesting thread, i always just called black people black and white people white. it's just easier to say.
 
"They think I'm Mexican."
"You're not Mexican?"

A powdered sugar delousing to the person who get's where that quote is from.
 
As an interesting note, I knew this black guy at Suzuki camp way back in the day who would joke that he prefered to be called, "honey brown." :laugh:
 
Ok, so a tribesman is taken from his home in deepest darkest Africa and chained to the hold of a ship and taken to Jamaica where he harvest sugar cane all day.

A century later, his great grandson emigrates to England.

The great grandson then has a son, John, who moves to the USA on a green card.

Calling John an African American is beyond absurd.
 
Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
I call a spade a spade. They are black. and white people are white. and fat people are fat. Retarded people are retards. And so on.
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spade used to be a rascist term iirc
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Wrong spade. The racist use of the word refers to the color of a playing card spade - black. Calling a spade a spade refers to the shovel synonym.

and why are you pointing it out? Are you one of the new breed of hyper-sensitive racism apologists?
 
Originally posted by: Roguestar
I recall an interview with a black, English athlete who was being grilled for some american news channel about his success in sport (details = blah?) and when they asked him how it felt to be an "african-american" in sport and he corrected them saying "I'm not african-american, I'm British" they just couldn't understand him...
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and yet, he is still wrong. great britain has been gone for a long time. he should of said he was english.

edit: oh and btw, once we stop "celebrating" our differences, racism won't be an issue. the only way to stop racism is for everyone to view each other as a fellow human being. I can't stand when even my own church says "let us view our diffrences as a gift from God." it drives me nuts. with regards to my church, God created mankind the same, woman and man. His intention was not white man, black man, chinese man....
 
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