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Originally posted by Nisses
sadatx, this whole thread seems to be now going about the right of the black community to call upon past sufferings.
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What the hell does that mean? "Past sufferings" have been mentioned all of about three times in this thread. And by your logic all those Jews should just forget about the Holocaust because it's a past suffering, I mean, WTF?
Plus, I also mentioned present suffering. You know, suffering that's happening right now. (And I see that you're from Belgium which gives you about zero perspective on the state of rascism in America, if you're an American living overseas then that's, of course, different).
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What the students themselves however did and intended, as far as I can see, is call the university on their vague PC notions like African-American if what they really mean is black.
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Let me clarify what I tried to say in my earlier post. The students' fight is not with the school and not with the award. I'm sorry, but "calling" the university on using African-American is so immature and misguided that it's ridiculous that people are actually taking their side. What it does is ignore, as I've said before, the meaning of the award. It was just the wrong thing to protest.
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Just to be an ass to the PC crowd, I'll say it again, BLACK. 
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What? Do you want a present? Sorry, but that statement right there sums up why the term African-American was created in the first place. Because of idiots going around saying "I don't care what YOU want to be called, I'm gonna call you Black cause that's what I want to call YOU."
Do you understand how OFFENSIVE this is?!?
Sorry if I sound overly antoagonistic, but I think you might have touched a nerve