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Jul 11, 2020 13:32:33 GMT
Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 11, 2020 13:32:33 GMT
Haven't read all of it yet but certainly will. By clicking on one of the links ( Huffington post) I learned that a word I have never thought anything special of,('articulate') can be construed as racist. I wasn't convinced by that example at all. It's an old buzz word used against Black folks when they can string a few sentences together. It's been used a LOT with Black athletes, especially.
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Jul 11, 2020 13:51:02 GMT
Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 11, 2020 13:51:02 GMT
Ice Cubes the Predator is a constant in my listening. Even though it was released way back in '92 after the Rodney King riots, some of the lyrics still resonate in light of today's BLM movement:
Doin us wrong from the first day, And don't understand why a nigga got an AK, Callin me an African-American, Like everything is fair again, shit.
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Jul 11, 2020 14:09:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 14:09:59 GMT
I wasn't convinced by that example at all. It's an old buzz word used against Black folks when they can string a few sentences together. It's been used a LOT with Black athletes, especially. Are you allowed to call a black person eloquent?
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Jul 11, 2020 14:11:28 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 14:11:28 GMT
Ice Cubes the Predator is a constant in my listening. Even though it was released way back in '92 after the Rodney King riots, some of the lyrics still resonate in light of today's BLM movement: Doin us wrong from the first day, And don't understand why a nigga got an AK, Callin me an African-American, Like everything is fair again, shit. At least no one's going to call that articulate!
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Jul 11, 2020 14:17:29 GMT
Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 11, 2020 14:17:29 GMT
It's an old buzz word used against Black folks when they can string a few sentences together. It's been used a LOT with Black athletes, especially. Are you allowed to call a black person eloquent? If you want a punch in the face. I think it depends on the circumstances. I would certainly term this article eloquent: www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html
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Jul 11, 2020 14:18:03 GMT
Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 11, 2020 14:18:03 GMT
Ice Cubes the Predator is a constant in my listening. Even though it was released way back in '92 after the Rodney King riots, some of the lyrics still resonate in light of today's BLM movement: Doin us wrong from the first day, And don't understand why a nigga got an AK, Callin me an African-American, Like everything is fair again, shit. At least no one's going to call that articulate! Pure poetry.
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Jul 11, 2020 14:40:24 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 14:40:24 GMT
I think trying to censor commonly used adjectives because of some cock-eyed theory that they're racist is absolutely not the way to go. I think some white liberals in the US must genuinely find holding a conversation with someone of colour difficult because they'd be so self-conscious and worried about choosing the wrong word that they'd barely be able to string a sentence together. They probably just end up grinning innanely at them.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 11, 2020 15:27:24 GMT
I think trying to censor commonly used adjectives because of some cock-eyed theory that they're racist is absolutely not the way to go. I think some white liberals in the US must genuinely find holding a conversation with someone of colour difficult because they'd be so self-conscious and worried about choosing the wrong word that they'd barely be able to string a sentence together. They probably just end up grinning innanely at them. I think they think too much. Ya gotta remember, Black folk are used to us being do-gooder racist as well as regular racist. And their hypocrisy meter runs really accurately. How about treating people like people? Black people know the race thing is there, they are very aware of it, but there are hundreds of other things all people have in common, celebrate, worry about, and can talk about. Having had lots of interaction with Black folk, the only time race has been brought up, in my experience, is when White folks bring it up, negatively, and in in-depth, well-meaning discussion.
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Jul 11, 2020 18:56:12 GMT
Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 11, 2020 18:56:12 GMT
I've become pretty friendly with my oral surgeon, unfortunately I see him enough. He's Indian, Raju Reddy, and his family emigrated to Alabama, of all places, when he was 10. He's a huge Alabama football fan and we talk college sports all the time. I got his attention when I knew that both Latrell Sprewell and Robert Horry played hoops at Alabama.
Anyhoo, we were talking about his coming to the US. He knows I live in Fremont, which has a very big Indian population. He was telling me that he came here not knowing English and his main goal, like most Asians, was to quietly assimilate. He also said he didn't have a choice, because unlike the Bay Area, his family was the only Indian family around, as far as he knew. He said he experienced racism in Alabama, of course he did with the darkness of his skin, but ignored it.
He made the comment that he really tried escaping his heritage and it wasn't really stressed so much. Like I wrote, the family tried to assimilate. I told him I thought that was interesting because I knew he liked going to other countries to see other cultures and he's been telling me about how much he enjoyed the series, The Vikings.
He said his wife is the one who had his daughter take Indian dance classes and keeps them up on their Indian heritage. It's not like he dismisses it, he said, but it's not a dominant force in his life.
He's married and said his wife is the one encourages the Indian culture with the kids.
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Jul 12, 2020 16:30:19 GMT
Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 12, 2020 16:30:19 GMT
WSJ:American Indian Lands Include Eastern Oklahoma, Supreme Court Rules WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that nearly half of Oklahoma falls within the Muscogee (Creek) Indian Reservation, over the objections of the federal and state governments, enforcing 19th century treaties the U.S. made with the tribe.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the 5-4 court, joined by liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Four other conservatives dissented.
At issue was whether Oklahoma’s admission to the Union in 1907 dissolved the Muscogee (Creek) reservation that covered the state’s eastern half, including its second most populous city, Tulsa. Congress never formally voted to terminate Creek sovereignty, but the federal and state governments contended that the effect of Oklahoma statehood following several actions to diminish Indian self-rule amounted to the same thing. Interestingly, this is also the land of the Osage tribe, who became explosively wealthy (over $30 million then, half a $$$ billion today) in the 1920s due to mineral rights which led to 24 murders of Osage who happened to have white guardians who received the mineral rights upon their death. Many of the murders were never solved, of course (and it did help foster the birth of the FBI (who have their own Native American, African American, etc., crimes under Hoover's direction). Not surprisingly, this is also when the Tulsa Black Wall Street atrocity happened. www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS005
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Jul 12, 2020 16:51:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2020 16:51:44 GMT
Going back to rasict words, do you guys consider "posse" a racist word?
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Jul 12, 2020 19:13:35 GMT
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Post by cousinlou on Jul 12, 2020 19:13:35 GMT
I wasn't convinced by that example at all. It's an old buzz word used against Black folks when they can string a few sentences together. It's been used a LOT with Black athletes, especially. So away with all words that are in principle positive as some bastard may be routinely and sarcastically using them to belittle POC’s?
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Jul 12, 2020 19:29:36 GMT
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Post by daveythefatboy on Jul 12, 2020 19:29:36 GMT
Going back to rasict words, do you guys consider "posse" a racist word? Where does that question come from?
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Jul 12, 2020 19:32:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2020 19:32:10 GMT
Going back to rasict words, do you guys consider "posse" a racist word? Where does that question come from? Don't you worry about it David.
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Jul 12, 2020 19:38:31 GMT
Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 12, 2020 19:38:31 GMT
Where is "POC" coming from? The buzz word efficiency of it is concerning. As it seems only whites would use it to speak/identify nonwhites non specifically.
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