Word black and racism

Oakman

Dalek Dave wrote:

That opens up a whole new can of worms!

That's what Martin Luther said when he was forced to deal with the Diet of Worms. Here he is talking about the need for can-openers.[^]

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Lost User

Agreed, it possibly shows the peopel who have a problem with race. For example, why is Obama referred to as black? He has mixed parentage. I'm with Blazing Saddles on this crap BTW!

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Oakman

Trollslayer wrote:

For example, why is Obama referred to as black? He has mixed parentage.

He self-identifies as black. Do you want to tell him he's wrong?

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Dan Neely

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Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

Oakman

The one thing we know is it's a newbie. My balance on your post took his 1 to a 4.2

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

pseudonym67

Because some people think about sh*t too mauch and are looking for a chance to take offence. 1. It is racist because it calls the child black and not the current politically correct term which will pretty soon be that 24 year old who was born in the village three miles from the tree two miles up the road north from the capital of Botswana. 2. It is racist because it suggests that white men are inferior to black/coloured/racially differentiated males and suggests that all whites will eventually be cuckoled by them as all white women sectretly desire them.

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bulg

voted down not cause i don't agree with your first point, but because your enumerations were bland.

Dan Neely

My univotor might've been but the one that crapped on the rest of the thread was gold since my 5's resulted in 3 averages.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

pseudonym67

voted down for being a dick

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bulg

not voted down, for being straight to the point ( in this case, penis ), though I question your motives

Nish Nishant

It may interest you that Indians are categorized as Caucasians - both Aryan Indians and Dravidian Indians. So Caucasian does not automatically imply a white-skinned person. You have to say "white Caucasian" if you want to imply that meaning.

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Nish Nishant

I think what some people may have taken as racist about that joke is the fact that the couple were assumed to be white because race wasn't mentioned. The "white"-ness of the couple has to be inferred from the fact that otherwise the joke would not be a joke. Ironically this inference itself is racist - because Indians, Chinese, Latinos etc can all wonder why they were not considered by anyone :-)

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pseudonym67

lol, no need the names not illiot

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bulg

well I bumped you up to... 2.3. How embarrassing. Maybe I'll spam the forum with random news links to level++ my account

Sahir Shah

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

It may interest you that Indians are categorized as Caucasians - both Aryan Indians and Dravidian Indians.

There are also people of australoid, mongoloid and (possibly) negroid race in India. People from the eastern states of India such as Nagaland are Tibeto-Burmese i.e of Mongoloid race. South Indians are largely mixed austroloid and caucasoid. North Indians are predominantly caucasoid in appearance but people of pure caucasian race are rare, you can say the predominant part of the mixture is caucasian. People of South Asia are of largely of mixed race with the exception some isolated tribes such as the Kalash of Hindu-Kush[^] who are said to be a pure (white) caucasian people. There are also some mysteries such as the Kodava[^] of Coorg (in Karnataka state) who look completely different from the surrounding south Indian people. They are like the Iranians in appearance but no one knows where they came from and how they got there. Anyway, people who do not have some kind of mixed ancestry are very rare. Even the royal families of Europe had some african ancestry[^].

modified on Saturday, February 28, 2009 8:23 AM

Sahir Shah

I read somewhere that roaming bands of vigilantes looking for escaped slaves in the US would catch the "high yaller" ones who were trying to pass off as whites by taking off their trousers and looking at their genitals. I am not sure what was it that gave them away, I think it was the color of the genitals or could be the size ;). It is believed that persons of mixed race may look white but will still have dark genitals.