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Onemunki says: We live in a world of genuine tragedy, starvation and terror. So, after hearing stories of cruise line passengers complaining at the air conditioning breaking down, what stories of sheer single-minded self-pity get your goat?
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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if they so dearly want the rest of the country to embrace them for who they are and what they can do for there community and country then shirly they should be called american?
or do they/are they using the term as scape goatse for being lazy lying rapeyrobby overweight dimshits and expect sympathey for there cause?
i am from a scotish mother and a welsh father and i call my self English because that is where i was born and that is who i am, at some point in the past i have romany gypsy blood in the family line but i do not bleat about it and try to make it in to an excuse for being who i am and what i am. hell my family even had a slave or two in the past but i do not make appologies for that part of my history or expect to make a payment or say sorry for my great great great great grand farther.
man up and accept teh fact that you are american whether you like it or not you have turned being called african american into the new nigga* word and now you expect every one else to feel sorry
* used in context and not as a derogatory but if you still dont like it tough it is part and parcle of history
( , Fri 2 Mar 2012, 7:52, 6 replies)
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or just trying to get a rise out of people?
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but you could at least learn the bloody language.
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But I used to work with a guy who went on holiday to America. Apparently, somebody once heard his sarf Lahndon accent and said, "So you're an English African-American?"
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They were 'forced' to go an pick cotton in the US and I think it may be there way of reminding themselves where they originally came from....Just an idea...Your Scottish mother and Welsh father comparison is laughable, so thanks for the humour at least. Grimsdales prob spot on, you were drunk right?
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Long answer: They don't, it's PC white people who invented the term.
There's a black American comedian who sums it up saying 'Everytime a white person calls me African American it sounds like they are trying too hard, and I just think 'Man, you had to think of a way not to call me nigger'
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The use of "African" for a black American is very long established. I used to think "African-American" was a bit silly, but since they also have Italian-Americans, Scottish-Americans, Japanese-Americans and so on, African-American is actually quite a logical term, and is about more than skin colour.
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that I am happy to take my knowledge of Black America from a comedian without checking any further or that I am willing to stand corrected by a B3tan on the same basis.
( , Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:08, closed)
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