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Old 05-16-2009, 08:23 PM
 
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And which some folks would have preferred that those careers to have been spent keeping folks on the back of the bus.

"Mammy, mammy, my dear old mammy...."
I suppose "some folks" would have. Me on the other hand I marched during the civil rights movement and I continue to educate myself and others on many civil rights, and political fronts.

You sound like you've spent your entire life making a "career" out of being perpetually sarcastic, angry, bitter and unforgiving.
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Old 05-16-2009, 09:46 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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The post above mine is a classic example of projection.
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Old 05-16-2009, 10:24 PM
 
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As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau

Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black, African Am., or Negro," or provide written entries such as African American, Afro American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.

Can we move on now?
Why not just call them Black-Americans? Better yet, why not just call them Americans? Or humans?
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