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Topic: You have to be kidding me, "So Long Little Piggies" |
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knight0334
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 Posted: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:17:00 Post Subject: |
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| Blue|Fusion wrote: | Wow. This reminds me of my pop culture class yesterday. I had started a quick and brutal debate about the phrase "Africa-American" because everyone in the class kept using it (there's about 5 black kids in there). As we were talking about something, I said "blah blah blah black blah blah blah." Nothing bad, just an answer to something she asked. She corrected me: "You mean African-American." I immediately responded back "No. I mean black." And of course, she replies, "I don't like using that word." And then me and my two buddies next to me had a feel day with her. "So if someone handed you a black pen, what would you describe it as?" And she just looked at us funny. After a few minutes of her and us going back and forth and the room in awe, I finally just say "I refuse to call black people African-American because that is A) too many letters for me to spell out and B) implying that black people are both from Africa and an American Citizen. What about a black person in Britain? They don't call them African-British. What if they're from the Carribean Islands? American-Carribean? No. I'm white. They're black." And after I explained, even the black kids agreed with my position and also told her the same thing.
That was my good deed of the day....week.  |
Some of us "whites" prefer to be called European-American of the Crimson Neck Variety. lol 
BTW, I agree with you in your story.. |
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