"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It's not a definitive reference.
>
> Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard my
> brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>
> Natalie[/color]
I believe I heard Jesse say it a few times. I think Al has said it too. But
maybe not. I can be pretty darn fast with the remote control. LOL
"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard my
>brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>
>Natalie[/color]
Assuming you not to be deaf, then you were not alive during, or are
not old enough to remember, the 1960's. Even the Dead Dr. K. is known to
have used the expression. Personally, I reject the presently modish term
"African-American", as being ignorant and pretentious and refuse to use
it. "African American" is as ignorant as saying "axe" to mean "ask" and
pronouncing the letter "d" as a letter "t", a sound it never has in the
English language or as using "dahoh" to mean any female human being,
even the speaker's mother. It is every bitt as pretentious and ignorant
as those dumb-assed American Indians who call themselves "Native
Americans", when all evidence indicates American Indians to have
annihilated this continent's "native" peoples.
"African-American" applies only to that vanishingly-small minority
of Americans, black or white, who have immigrated here from Africa;
period. It does *not* apply to their offspring or other descendants.
Native-born people are "Americans"; not "African", "Native", "Irish",
"Italian" (as examples); no hyphen. "Black" people, regardless of actual
skin tone or "goodness" of hair, are "black people", on those few
occasions that a distinction is necessary. What's so hard about that?
Unfortunately, we are blessed with a somewhat retarded society
which soon adopts, puts into popular use, and gives an air of
authenticity to erroneous phreaseology, grammar, pronunciation, etc.
particularly, when such are promulgated, unendingly, by the brainless
twits in the popular "media". For example, consider not only the current
mis-use of "African-American" but the use of "their" instead of "his"
and the ever-popular mis-pronunciation of "disparate".
--
HTH,
Derald
"Derald" <derald@invalid.net> wrote in message
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> "Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard my
>>brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>>
>>Natalie[/color]
> Assuming you not to be deaf, then you were not alive during, or are
> not old enough to remember, the 1960's. Even the Dead Dr. K. is known to
> have used the expression. Personally, I reject the presently modish term
> "African-American", as being ignorant and pretentious and refuse to use
> it. "African American" is as ignorant as saying "axe" to mean "ask" and
> pronouncing the letter "d" as a letter "t", a sound it never has in the
> English language or as using "dahoh" to mean any female human being,
> even the speaker's mother. It is every bitt as pretentious and ignorant
> as those dumb-assed American Indians who call themselves "Native
> Americans", when all evidence indicates American Indians to have
> annihilated this continent's "native" peoples.
> "African-American" applies only to that vanishingly-small minority
> of Americans, black or white, who have immigrated here from Africa;
> period. It does *not* apply to their offspring or other descendants.
> Native-born people are "Americans"; not "African", "Native", "Irish",
> "Italian" (as examples); no hyphen. "Black" people, regardless of actual
> skin tone or "goodness" of hair, are "black people", on those few
> occasions that a distinction is necessary. What's so hard about that?
> Unfortunately, we are blessed with a somewhat retarded society
> which soon adopts, puts into popular use, and gives an air of
> authenticity to erroneous phreaseology, grammar, pronunciation, etc.
> particularly, when such are promulgated, unendingly, by the brainless
> twits in the popular "media". For example, consider not only the current
> mis-use of "African-American" but the use of "their" instead of "his"
> and the ever-popular mis-pronunciation of "disparate".
> --
> HTH,
> Derald[/color]
Natlaie[color=blue]
>
>
>
> Michael[color=green]
>> Richards may have uploaded that entry.
>>
>> I uploaded one about the phrase from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
>> showing up on "Hercules".
>>
>> It's not a definitive reference.
>>
>> Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard my
>> brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>>
>> Natalie
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]
Oh, I wasn't commenting on that particular phrase one way or the other; just
Wikipedia, in general.
Cathy
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>
> Natlaie[color=green]
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael[color=darkred]
>>> Richards may have uploaded that entry.
>>>
>>> I uploaded one about the phrase from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
>>> showing up on "Hercules".
>>>
>>> It's not a definitive reference.
>>>
>>> Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard my
>>> brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>>>
>>> Natalie
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]
The point was that the problems are fixed much, much sooner that I wouldv'e
guessed - they *look* for errors on a constant basis, in a super-timely
manner.
Cathy
Otherwise it's an[color=blue]
> ok resource.
>
>[color=green]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael[color=darkred]
>> > Richards may have uploaded that entry.
>> >
>> > I uploaded one about the phrase from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
>> > showing up on "Hercules".
>> >
>> > It's not a definitive reference.
>> >
>> > Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard
>> > my
>> > brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>> >
>> > Natalie
>> >[/color][/color]
> --
>[/color]
"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>snipped<
> Still anecdotal and quite subjective, but I really don't care enough to
> argue about it. I still maintain I've never heard anyone black use that
> phrase. Ever.
>
> So there you have it.
>
> Natlaie[/color]
Not necessarily. There are some people running around doing
mass-cancels of articles they personally don't agree with being on
there, for example web-based comics and book reviews/synopses.
Wikipedia is a reasonably good source, but their criteria on the
appropriety of a post being there and being accurate has loopholes you
can sail a PanaMax sized ocean freighter through.
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>Still anecdotal and quite subjective, but I really don't care enough to
>argue about it. I still maintain I've never heard anyone black use that
>phrase. Ever.
>So there you have it.[/color]
Yes - but you can also freely use the dreaded N-word and several
other "not acceptable terms" in casual conversation - God Forbid
anyone else even utter it in public, we get lynched by the Court of
Public Opinion. Every other-than-black person has to walk on
eggshells around the subject, no matter how silly it is.
There are very few descriptive terms that *someone* won't try to
tern into a grave insult.
Just look at all the furor about an actor referring to another
possibly homosexual actor using the F-Word - even using the word in
the /denial/ of calling someone the word (with an open microphone
nearby) can get you in a load of trouble. All of a sudden he's
talking atonement, and personal redemption, and self-examination for
deep seated biases and problems, and healing the GLBT community...
Yet again, Political Correctness runs amok.
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Michael Richards may have uploaded that entry.
>>>
>>> I uploaded one about the phrase from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
>>> showing up on "Hercules".
>>>
>>> It's not a definitive reference.
>>>
>>> Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard my
>>> brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>>>
>>> Natalie[/color][/color][/color]
And stop and think about how we have to tap-dance around the subject
when it comes up - trust me, it isn't fun.
"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Well, I know what's on your mind ;)
>>[/color]
>
> Wow, how did you know I was thinking of jumping my husband's bones?
>
> You're good.
>
> Natalie
>[/color]
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