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Originally Posted by Miborn
well then I was born in the early 60's. And you are correct I dont know much about it.
And I am glad you did not waste good wine have a glass for me I dont drink anymore HBP ug......
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Having been born in the 60's (as I hoped and expected) I am glad that I didn't resort to a more cynical or caustic response. But, I don't get the impression that the most folks engaged in this argument are as young, certainly Beck isn't.
If folks cared to discuss this issue honestly then they would first review the metamorphosis of African American political thought when it came to the issue of self-identity and methods crafted to achieve it.
They can start with the an examination of the old African American denomination the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816 when the use of the term African was in wide usage when describing persons of a darker hue. It would not be until the middle of the 19th Century that Negro would gain wider acceptance, in no small part to thwart, forced repatriation to Africa. And while Colored and Negro would be used interchangeably throughout the latter part of the 19th Century until it was supplanted by black in the late 1960's. At the end of this inquiry, they should be able to discern the fact that each phase of self-identity was purely the result of "political correctness." And, remember, issues of self-identity, be it Irish, Italian, German or whatever, is always political.
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