Re: Why can't we call people negroes?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:23 am
And yet you can call me White, Caucasian, Cracker, or any other number of words for white and I will have no issue with it. Many black people take offense to Negro as well as African American. Others take offense to Black.
Racial terms are an instrument for oppression, but NOT in the way one thinks. You see, many of us don't give a flying **** about a term. But those who do can use a term to claim racism or any number of other things. Then political correctness comes into play and the one who has no racist belief or expression of any kind is ostracized.
I view that race should be used for nothing more then a term of physical description. I am the type of person that people who take offense to these terms hate, because I am above them, and they will do whatever they can to try to drag me and others who beleive as I do down using political correctness and racist allegations.
Racial terms are an instrument for oppression, but NOT in the way one thinks. You see, many of us don't give a flying **** about a term. But those who do can use a term to claim racism or any number of other things. Then political correctness comes into play and the one who has no racist belief or expression of any kind is ostracized.
I view that race should be used for nothing more then a term of physical description. I am the type of person that people who take offense to these terms hate, because I am above them, and they will do whatever they can to try to drag me and others who beleive as I do down using political correctness and racist allegations.