Baltimore is weird (employment, to buy, schools)

[traveler00]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Easier to spell, but much more insulting.

That's the point. "Ambiguous" is insulting enough.

[iSki]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Easier to spell, but much more insulting and adds no descriptive value.

West Side Boy, I'll give you $5 to learn how to crack smile at other people's jokes.

[iSki]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaAve D.C.

Don't forget the way they pronounce "yessir".

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YouTube - Hood to Hood baltimore

Nice! lol

[Jermaine88]

Wow this topic is hilarious..

[Hamish Forbes]

Can someone help a geezer with an honest question? I looked at the hood-to-hood video. The guys in the video don't seem to have much self-respect. Is this an act for people like me, or do they really deal with life at this level? No wonder some of the posters on this forum (I'm talking mainly about the educated, articulate Blacks) seem to be so frustrated with inner-city Baltimore culture. Thanks . . .

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by iSki

West Side Boy, I'll give you $5 to learn how to crack smile at other people's jokes.

I can smile when something is funny. Calling someone a "Mutt" isn't. For the record, I don't find the term "racially ambigous (however you spell it)" insulting. There are people of mixed race people that defy easy desciption, to others and even themselves. This is life and the term "ambigious" carries neither a positive nor negetive connotation in my mind.

[traveler00]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

I can smile when something is funny. Calling someone a "Mutt" isn't. For the record, I don't find the term "racially ambigous (however you spell it)" insulting. There are people of mixed race people that defy easy desciption, to others and even themselves. This is life and the term "ambigious" carries neither a positive nor negetive connotation in my mind.

But nobody wants to call his/her kids racially "ambiguous." You've obviously never been there. "Mixed" may be a better term. The U.S. has to start thinking in terms of people as U.S. citizens, with equal rights, not as a hodgepodge of races that inevitably will keep some races over others. In the past, you would have mixed black and white without the consent of society; but nowadays it happens among educated people too. So what are you going to tell these kids, you are some kind of freak?? No, they are U.S. citizens and human beings with the same capabilities as any other. The CNN anchor, I think, is a fine example of that. So is President Obama. Race should be dropped from the census, the mere fact is racist. World is changing.

[traveler00]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

I can smile when something is funny. Calling someone a "Mutt" isn't. For the record, I don't find the term "racially ambigous (however you spell it)" insulting. There are people of mixed race people that defy easy desciption, to others and even themselves. This is life and the term "ambigious" carries neither a positive nor negetive connotation in my mind.

Oh, and the "Mutt" thing was pure sarcasm.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by Hamish Forbes

Can someone help a geezer with an honest question? I looked at the hood-to-hood video. The guys in the video don't seem to have much self-respect. Is this an act for people like me, or do they really deal with life at this level? No wonder some of the posters on this forum (I'm talking mainly about the educated, articulate Blacks) seem to be so frustrated with inner-city Baltimore culture. Thanks . . .

This is for real. It's a regressive culture.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by traveler00

But nobody wants to call his/her kids racially "ambiguous." You've obviously never been there. "Mixed" may be a better term. The U.S. has to start thinking in terms of people as U.S. citizens, with equal rights, not as a hodgepodge of races that inevitably will keep some races over others. In the past, you would have mixed black and white without the consent of society; but nowadays it happens among educated people too. So what are you going to tell these kids, you are some kind of freak?? No, they are U.S. citizens and human beings with the same capabilities as any other. The CNN anchor, I think, is a fine example of that. So is President Obama. Race should be dropped from the census, the mere fact is racist. World is changing.

Mixed is a probably the most current PC term. As for being there? Some of my ancestors were clearly racially ambiguous. We don't know what race they were. They were probably a mix of indian, white, maybe even black. My grandfather's skin tone could only be described as bronze, a lot darker than many mixed black/white people. We don't know where it came from. That is what ambiguous means : open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal.

What makes that insulting? Sometimes you just don't know, even if you ask the question. That is reality, not just today, but in the past too. People should be proud of who they are, whether it is one race, two races, several races, or ambiguously mixed. I don't want a post-racial society. I am proud to be who I am, white at a glance, but with some pretty cool mystery ancestors in the mix too.