I smell some scientific racism brewing in this thread.One must also ask -- just how 'colored' do you have to be to be considerd 'colored'?
Isnt it a good question? How black to you have to be to be considered black?I smell some scientific racism brewing in this thread.
Isnt it a good question? How black to you have to be to be considered black?
1/2 1/4? 1/8? 1/16?
I mean, lets look at Nichole Richie (Lionel Richoe's daughter) and Djimon Hounsou. Both are black, and yet...
Isnt it a good question? How black to you have to be to be considered black?
1/2 1/4? 1/8? 1/16?
I mean, lets look at Nichole Richie (Lionel Richoe's daughter) and Djimon Hounsou. Both are black, and yet...
Nicole Camille Richie (born Nicole Camille Escovedo; September 21, 1981) is an American socialite and television personality. The adopted daughter of soul singer Lionel Richie, she is perhaps best known for her role in the Fox reality television series The Simple Life, alongside fellow socialite and childhood best friend Paris Hilton.
She is adopted; she is the biological child of a friend of Richie's, and is of mixed race.
Yes, blacks are, in the sense that they are from many cultures and races.
No, in sense that being from multiple cultures and races makes a person inferior.
So, it depends on which of these is meant. So, it depends on the context. Of who said it and in what conversation and what else they said alongside it. Does this answer your question, Goobieman?
Hey what's wrong with the Irish..I am so offended and upset that I now need counseling..I have issues.....Hiccup~~Nearly all of us in the USA have mixed blood..me, I am English, Irish, Scot, and Dutch...
Not real happy about the Irish part.
Iceland, IIRC, tries to keep its race "unmixed", as do the French. We should thank the French for that. It is good for them to keep inbreeding, that way they won't mess up the lives of the Non French...
BTW, that was sarcasm, for those who don't have a sarcasm detector...
See post #5. It was made clear very early on that he term was used in regard to the former, not the latter.
Hey what's wrong with the Irish..I am so offended and upset that I now need counseling..I have issues.....Hiccup~~
I believe I addrsssed this.
Their leading organization refers to them (and others) as colored. If that's good enough for them, then its good enough for me.
The qiuestion is - why isn't it good enough for you?
Yes - you are overly sensitive and don't like it when people do not respect those sensitivites. Get over yourself.I consider myself a bitch but do not take kindly to others calling me that. You picking up what I am putting down yet?
Hmmmmm…Yes - you are overly sensitive and don't like it when people do not respect those sensitivities. Get over yourself.
Meanwhile, I'll continue to use the term 'colored' because that's what the NAACP uses.
Yes, well, tell the NAACP that they represent white people and see what that gets you.Hmmmmm…
I doubt anyone is completely devoid of color, even albino people.
Thus, I resent any suggestion that any one group has the sole usage of a word I can easily use to describe everyone on the planet.
At the same time.
Well, how do they define "black people", or "colored people", or whoever they claim to represent?Yes, well, tell the NAACP that they represent white people and see what that gets you.
Well, how do they define "black people", or "colored people", or whoever they claim to represent?
Depending on the method of definition, they may or may not represent some "white people".
I'm 99% sure there's a white person out there whose great-great-something-mother was a slave raped by her owner.
Should the NAACP not rep them cause' they have white skin? What's the purpose of the NAACP, anyway?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP (pronounced /ˈɛn ˌdʌbəlˈeɪ ˈsiː ˈpiː/), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. [3] Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".[4] Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term colored people.
The NAACP bestows the annual Image Awards for achievement in the arts and entertainment, and the annual Spingarn Medals for outstanding positive achievement of any kind, on deserving African Americans. It has its headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.[5]
On May 30, 1909, the Niagara Movement conference took place at New York City's Henry Street Settlement House, from which an organization of more than 40 individuals emerged, calling itself the National Negro Committee. Du Bois played a key role in organizing the event and presided over the proceedings. Also in attendance was African-American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett. At its second conference on May 30, 1910, members chose as the organization's name the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and elected its first officers,
In its early years, the NAACP concentrated on using the courts to overturn the Jim Crow statutes that legalized racial segregation. In 1913, the NAACP organized opposition to President Woodrow Wilson's introduction of racial segregation into federal government policy, offices, and hiring.
It appears that you don't like the NAACP......Wall of Rant...
You'll need to ask them. I'm just taking their use of the term 'colored' as a mainstream acceptance of the use of term 'colored' to describe blacks and other 'people of color'.Well, how do they define "black people", or "colored people", or whoever they claim to represent?
Depending on the method of definition, they may or may not represent some "white people".
I'm 99% sure there's a white person out there whose great-great-something-mother was a slave raped by her owner.
Should the NAACP not rep them cause' they have white skin? What's the purpose of the NAACP, anyway?
It appears that you don't like the NAACP...
It appears that you don't like the NAACP...
What the hell are you talking about?Why do you feel a scaring tactic will support your judgement? Why do you think that your correctness is linked with other's preference? If you need others to show the American way in debate, please show that you follow the same way, too. This is the minimal self-respect.
TrueWho does?
They are teh worthlessz
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