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Originally posted by sadatx
Am I the only one responding who thinks BuDDaH makes a very good POINT?
Look, the PC wave across America (and the world really) has been spawned by misguided liberal guilt in my opinion, so I'm not one to support it. However, there it is and it has shaped certain things in our daily lives. One of them being: The accepted term that institutions use (in general) is African-American and not Black (just like you'll find caucasain over the term white on most forms)..... chop
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I think you're both missing the point. What I believe most people want (myself included) if for those "forms" to disappear. The words used to define the different races aren't wrong, it's the fact we spend so much time trying to define races that is wrong. As someone mentioned earlier, you can't tell someone they aren't "black" just because of the color of their skin.
I think we need to remove any reference to skin color or nationality from every damned 'official' form in the country. IT DOESN'T MATTER. If the government wants to track the true nationality of citizens and immigrants, ask for the country in which you were born, nothing more. You want to have a PRIVATE club for black/white/whatever people? Do it. Just keep that shit out of the schools, keep it out of the government, and keep it out of the human resources department. note: i disagree with any club/award/whatever based on skin color, the previous comment was made in recognition that this IS/was a free country, and peaceful practicing of any belief in private is acceptable to me.
You get it yet? It's not the words, it's the idea behind the words.