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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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My darling mother, bless her liberal socks,
never quite caught up with the latest term for 'African-English'. When she was a pickney 'black' was bad so you said 'coloured' because 'they're often more of a brown, aren't they?' Then the Black Power movement fucked that up and she's been a bit stumped ever since.
She once told me she'd seen 'a gorgeous negro in the high street'.
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:13, 1 reply, 14 years ago)
never quite caught up with the latest term for 'African-English'. When she was a pickney 'black' was bad so you said 'coloured' because 'they're often more of a brown, aren't they?' Then the Black Power movement fucked that up and she's been a bit stumped ever since.
She once told me she'd seen 'a gorgeous negro in the high street'.
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:13, 1 reply, 14 years ago)
Now it is, sure.
But before 'Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud' etc., it was taken as derogatory. The Black Power chaps reclaimed it, like the benders did with 'queer'.
But only few years ago people started saying 'people of colour' in the US, just to add to the PC minefield.
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:48, Reply)
But before 'Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud' etc., it was taken as derogatory. The Black Power chaps reclaimed it, like the benders did with 'queer'.
But only few years ago people started saying 'people of colour' in the US, just to add to the PC minefield.
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:48, Reply)
I'd have thought
'people of colour' was offensive now :S
Though I still don't get 'African-Americans' it seems un-necessarily divisive
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:50, Reply)
'people of colour' was offensive now :S
Though I still don't get 'African-Americans' it seems un-necessarily divisive
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:50, Reply)
Halle Berry used it (people of 'color')
at some shitty fucking awards ceremony, I recall.
It's hard to keep up, especially if you're the kind of chap who calls a spade a spade, what?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:57, Reply)
at some shitty fucking awards ceremony, I recall.
It's hard to keep up, especially if you're the kind of chap who calls a spade a spade, what?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
( , Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:57, Reply)
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