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At some point the absurd political correctness needs to stop. These people will continue invhing forward until we are only permitted to identify people by a number
...Mais recognized she had made a potentially problematic error – what her attorneys call a “slip of the tongue.” She apologized immediately and profusely to everyone who might have heard her. She repeated her apology to others. But according to claims in court documents, the apology wasn’t good enough for a teacher’s aide named Sheila Avery. In front of the participants in the training seminar, Avery accused Mais of “speaking like old racists who told people of color to go to the back of the bus.”
In the days that followed, Mais says that she heard from other teachers that Avery, who is black, was denouncing her as a racist. Mais went to the school’s principal for help, claiming she was being mistreated. Mais said the abuse was causing her “severe mental and emotional distress” that was keeping her from doing her job. Mais says the principal did nothing about it...
In the past 60 years, we have been told to use the word negro, then colored person, then black, then African American, and now it's person of color. I remember my friend's wife going off the rails when the local hospital put "African American" on her new born baby's birth certificate. She and her husband were born and raised in Barbados, not freaking Africa. I don't like using any of these labels.
when rap music is forced to stop saying an arbitrary word
words really don’t mean anything other than to convey a message, in these instances to convey respect which is why slurs should be avoided such as the “worse than the C word” aka “N” word. as for who feel disrespected…it’s best to avoid people entirely as the general public is quite insane.
At some point the absurd political correctness needs to stop. These people will continue invhing forward until we are only permitted to identify people by a number
Maybe, but odd numbered people will be racist. /s
Could you imagine if these people were involved in computers back in the 90's when 2 hard drives in the system were called master/slave?
More like colored people who became Negro then Black and sometimes African American is a subset of people of color. And given Mais' subject colored people may have been historically accurate
I dont see the difference in colored people and people of color.
Whether one says colored people, negro, black or African American or people of color, not one of those descriptive terms qualifies a person as racist.
I dont see the difference in colored people and people of color.
Whether one says colored people, negro, black or African American or people of color, not one of those descriptive terms qualifies a person as racist.
"Colored people" was the polite usage for Black people up to the time the first calls to use Negro were being made thus we have the NAACP which retains the name. It is not an insult, just a use of old American English. One grandmother of mine's in a small dogtown near Fort Polk Louisiana used the term until her death in 1999 while the other one in Los Angeles transitioned to negro and then to Black. In today's usage "people of color" is not just Black people but also Asians, indigenous people from all over the world outside of Europe, Latinx, Arabs, Persians and others if you dive deep enough.
When did "colored people" become a derogatory team?
The same time that “all lives matter” became a Racist statement that proved you are a White Supremacist.
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