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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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.
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I have a different take. My black friends don't refer to themselves as African American. Their position is that they've never been to Africa and don't relate to that as a descriptive term. They like to be referred to simply as black, if necessary, but really just as friend, or attorney, or whatever.
I think that the hyphens are predominately perpetuated by the white, pc crowd.
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