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Originally posted by Not Me
I thought it was interesting when he was going off about how there is no White America and no Black America and no Asian America, just America. While I agree, I can't help but remark on the fact that despite this, blacks insist on the devisive label African American. I don't call myself a white american. I call myself an American. Blacks should cut this nonsense out and listen to Barack.
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This sock is full of shit and starting to reek.
The people who still insist on Hyphenated-American labels are predominantly the ones who got called the most odious racist terms in the past, and who understand that a not inconsiderable portion of non-hyphenated Americans are itching to return to calling them niggers, spics, chinks, wops, micks, polacks, and what-have-you. Neutral descriptors came about as a reasonable alternative, and trust me, we still need to remind the more obstreperous elements of our society that we have agreed on a respectful terminology. I have to remind family members of that, and we belong to a hyphenated category.
The pseudo-pioneers who urge the abandonment of all descriptive racial labels tend to be members of racial groups that never had to put up with non-descriptive race labels, which is the real nonsense.
I heard Obama's speech and found it inspiring. But I don't think it will cause American race consciousness to skulk into the dustbin of history.
P.S. Penske, have the decency to call the man by his last name.
