What to officially refer to a "Black" person as of today?

[werepossum]

lol. I am actually a cream color, but you won't hear us pasty bastards saying that shit to each other. "Whats up cream bitch?"

I dunno, I kinda like that.

"White? WHITE? How dare you! How DARE you! How. Dare. You. I'm cream! CREAM, MOTHERFUCKER!"

I just can't figure out how to make that work with Samuel L. Jackson. He's mo debinitely not cream, and yet with anyone else, well, if I can't have Sam say it, it hardly seems worth the effort.

 

[pcgeek11]

Negro, Colored, Black, African American ... all were used and were acceptable at one time or another. Shit they don't even know what they want to be called.

Call me whatever you like, just don't call me late for supper!

 

[dingster1]

Human, American work fine...

 

[mammador]

Yeah, 'cause it beats pinky or peach.

Arent..damn tablet keyboard...

 

[Ackmed]

Me>"Excuse me officer, I saw the women who was kidnapped"

Officer>"Can you describe the woman"

Me>"she was a woman in her 20s"

Officer>"um, anything else"

Me>"Nope, because skin color does not matter"

This is a pretty stupid thing to say. When police are looking for someone, everything matters. The two biggest things I would say are sex and race. Clothes, hair, height, weight, etc, everything matters. Skin color definitely matters when looking for someone specific. Don't be stupid.

 

[raildogg]

Why can't we refer to people by their skin color? It's a distinguishing characteristic, just as eye color, sex, facial hair, or height are.

Yeah, OK. Just what the world needs - more areas where we can differentiate ourselves from the other tribe.

Thus, the tribal mentality will carry on like it has for the past countless thousand years.

 

[crashtech]

Well, trying too hard to ignore something just turns it into the elephant in the room. Skin color should be making its way into being just another descriptor, like hair and eye color.

 

[who?]

Skin color isn't the only important descriptor.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087046,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/15/sports/3-globetrotters-arrested-in-error.html

 

[crashtech]

Who said it was an important descriptor? It's just one of many. Having a knee-jerk reaction about it once way or the other just helps perpetuate everything that is wrong about people's perceptions of race. In other words, it's just as stupid to ignore skin color as it is to focus upon it to the exclusion of all else, which in a sane world would be so obvious as not to merit mention.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Yeah, OK. Just what the world needs - more areas where we can differentiate ourselves from the other tribe.

Thus, the tribal mentality will carry on like it has for the past countless thousand years.

No, we just need a descriptive term that won't be interpreted as 'racist'.

I don't describe someone as black, brown, asian, etc to assign them to a group, just to conveniently identify them individually.

I can safely say you have brown or black or red hair without being shit on.

 

[Caravaggio]

Well, trying too hard to ignore something just turns it into the elephant in the room.

You have a point. Some might remember the film "Guess who's coming to dinner?". Made in 1967, when miscegenation was still illegal in 12 southern states (according to Wiki).
Katherine Houghton brings her fiancée back to meet Mum and Dad. He (fiancée, sidney Poitier) is black, the white family is impeccably liberal. But there are issues and tensions a plenty.
The strange thing is, that while the law has changed, I am not sure that the tensions expressed in that film have yet 'evaporated'. And the black fiancee's attitudes are well expressed too. It is not simply poking fun at white pseudo liberals.

 

[werepossum]

Arent..damn tablet keyboard...

I understood it. I have the same problem when I'm on my tablet. Damn you autocorrect!

 

[DCal430]

Aren't blacks particularly susceptible to skin cancer?

No not at all, just the opposite. Whites are 20 times more likely to develop skin cancer, including aggressive skin cancer.

 

[cbrunny]

I've decided that I should read this thread to find out what is right and wrong. After reading about Benedict I am hoping that I don't someday find out that I'm racist like he did.

 

[mammador]

Yeah, OK. Just what the world needs - more areas where we can differentiate ourselves from the other tribe.

Thus, the tribal mentality will carry on like it has for the past countless thousand years.

Cos' calling people tall, blond, short, dark, light, red-haired, long-haired, fat, or pretty remind people of the horrors and inhumanity of the tall/blond/short/dark/light/red-haired/long-haired/fat/pretty slave trade...

 

[werepossum]

Cos' calling people tall, blond, short, dark, light, red-haired, long-haired, fat, or pretty remind people of the horrors and inhumanity of the tall/blond/short/dark/light/red-haired/long-haired/fat/pretty slave trade...

lol +1

 

[SheHateMe]

According to posters on P&N, we should be called "Thugs" now.

 

[Linux23]

According to posters on P&N, we should be called "Thugs" now.

^

forgot about that one

 

[manimal]

by their name

 

[IGBT]

liberals view their miserable lives thru the prism of color and race. Check with the usual liberal grievance mongers like sharpton / jackson for the latest view thru their racist prism.