Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
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- #221
Here is something to ponder...
In the 60's we were told not to call them colored people. That was deemed as racist....instead call them black people.
In the 80's we were told not to call them black people. That was deemed as racist......instead call them African Americans. That was a problem, however, when one was a black person who was from England and simply visiting America. African American wasn't thought out well.
Now we are told to call them people of color....pretty much what we were told NOT to call them in the 60's.
I faintly remember from back when some big disaster or unrest was happening in some part of Africa (Somalia, I think) and American troops were sent to help. An image was shown of a black American soldier holding a Somalian child, and some airheaded reporterette described it as “An African-American soldier holding an African-American child”. (Hint, a child that is a citizen of Somalia is not any kind of “-American”.)
I've also heard of white immigrants to America from South Africa being told that they cannot call themselves African-Americans.