I stared right at him and said very quietly, "Marson, Riley, and McKegney are all Canadian-born. So is P.K. Subban. If you're going to play the race card, have your facts straight."
Canuks, eh?
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December 18, 2017, 11:55 PM
RNshooter
"African-Canuck"?
Bruc
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“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
December 19, 2017, 12:35 AM
Excam_Man
quote:
Originally posted by snoris: A male in an adjoining booth turned around and almost yelled, "It's 'African-American,' not 'Black.'"
I stared right at him and said very quietly, "Marson, Riley, and McKegney are all Canadian-born. So is P.K. Subban. If you're going to play the race card, have your facts straight."
I still can't believe I said that to him, but being basically called a racist infuriated me and I wasn't going to take it.
I hope he felt like a Dick. Thanks for standing up for yourself!
December 19, 2017, 01:15 AM
KMitch200
African-American is geography, NOT a race.
There are blond haired white people from Africa who now live here - like Ernie Ells for one. They are just as much or MORE "African-American" as any person with negroid features who has never even seen Africa let alone live there.
-------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.
December 19, 2017, 01:59 AM
Cliff
You should see the looks I get when I correct someone who calls me african-american. "No, I'm just black. I wasn't born in africa." Especially if it's a chip on the shoulder, magic negro loving, Trump hating, black male or female.
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
--Sir Winston Churchill
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
--James Earl Jones
December 19, 2017, 06:05 AM
Skins2881
I dated for a short period, a black woman from France. I never asked, but I wonder what she thought when people called her African American? She was neither from America or Africa.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
December 19, 2017, 06:12 AM
synthplayer
Look at it this way:
"I hate White people because they're all racist!"
Just think about that, because the Blacks who complain the most about racism will say that at every opportunity.
I found what you said riveting.
December 19, 2017, 08:02 AM
Scoutmaster
quote:
Originally posted by KMitch200: African-American is geography, NOT a race.
There are blond haired white people from Africa who now live here - like Ernie Ells for one. They are just as much or MORE "African-American" as any person with negroid features who has never even seen Africa let alone live there.
IIRC a few years ago there were "immigrants" in Paris from North Africa who got routy, started rioting. The Paris news referred to the immigrants as "African-American" although none had any connections to America.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
December 19, 2017, 12:11 PM
Texas Bob C.
So if you mention that someone is a human are you a speciesist?
December 19, 2017, 12:22 PM
Chance
quote:
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: So if you mention that someone is a human are you a speciesist?
No but if you call a person an Orange, then you are being a speciesist.
I love when a thread comes full circle.
December 19, 2017, 12:29 PM
jmalb
quote:
Originally posted by KMitch200: African-American is geography, NOT a race.
There are blond haired white people from Africa who now live here - like Ernie Ells for one. They are just as much or MORE "African-American" as any person with negroid features who has never even seen Africa let alone live there.
Unless he became a U.S. citizen he's still just African. Otherwise he'd be African-American.
I tend to share the sentiments of the antagonist in Spike Lee's School Daze. I wasn't born in Africa. I'm an American.
December 19, 2017, 01:00 PM
46and2
quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
quote:
Originally posted by Excam_Man: First 'colored' is racist, now 'black'...
That's pretty much how I feel.
I'm to the point of starting out conversations with them by asking, "What do you people like to be called these days?".
December 19, 2017, 01:57 PM
darthfuster
The trouble for me is the resentment that is growing based on myth, distortion and lies has created an environment of intolerance and aggression. There is an ever changing standard of compliance that if not obeyed, the consequences are hyper destructive. This makes me not even want to try. I instead segregate myself. This is both racial and political. It has become so severe online in perceived anonymity that were some of those things said in person, would elicit a violent reaction. We see this division polluting nearly every aspect of society now. Political and racial resentment is destroying us all. If we don't learn to differ without resentment, this society will not end well.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
December 19, 2017, 04:12 PM
smschulz
The problem is you either want to look at everyone the same (in regards to color) or you don't. Make up your mind.
December 19, 2017, 04:47 PM
EasyFire
If I recall correctly, I seem to remember certain Viking reports of African peoples being described as purple.
I am of mostly German ancestry. I have gotten to the point of answering stupid SJW types as such: "I'm German. We hate you all equally." People usually leave me alone after that.
A Perpetual Disappointment...
December 19, 2017, 11:18 PM
apprentice
Can't say that I agree with Chris Rock on many things, but there is the following:
