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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:16 AM Original message |
This may be really offensive, but I'm going to ask.... |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. Did you say "colored"? |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 09:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
55. Then you ask the question, |
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Scatterheart (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. I think it's disgusting. |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. My |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Mine were pretty gentle spirits |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I guess |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Why would they feel the need to label WHAT people? |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. You mean they didn't refer to them as African-Americans? |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. You know, wtmusic.... |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. see |
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Colorado Progressive (980 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
6. My granny says worse. But I still love her. She is 96 |
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Nostradammit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. Is this racial epithet night at DU? |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:54 AM Response to Reply #7 |
27. seems so... |
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Nostradammit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:07 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. ...? indeed |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 04:18 AM Response to Reply #33 |
51. So we see how you deal |
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Nostradammit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 05:07 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. I don't normally converse with them |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 09:41 AM Response to Reply #51 |
56. pardon the interjection, please... |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
8. My grandmother (b.1910) used to say "colored" |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. "colored" |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:55 AM Response to Reply #14 |
30. So, what is the perspective when people call each other |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
31. Last I looked we are all 'colored'... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
11. Of course it is. Everybody knows it. And white folks try to excuse it... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:54 AM Response to Reply #11 |
28. aren't there more offensive words which are just as old? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 09:33 AM Response to Reply #28 |
53. ROFL! James Brown the bigot. 'Nuff said. |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
39. Maybe my grandparent were bigots.... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 09:34 AM Response to Reply #39 |
54. What sucks is that it has to be discovered, when it could with all propriety be ASSUMED. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. sounds like another way to say 'negro' |
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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. I've heard the term "young buck" used in reference to young |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
36. Buck means "breeder" IIRC. It's a livestock term. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:28 AM Response to Reply #36 |
45. aha, my 1962 unabridged dictionary says of 'buck' |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #45 |
61. Slave livestock. |
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Sanctified (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. Negras? That's nothing you should have heard what my grandparents called blacks. |
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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:44 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I kinda look a little orange when I've been eating too many |
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Lucinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. You obviously dont live in Spray Tanville |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:51 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. The language usage has changed. |
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Sanctified (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:11 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. It's cool my grandmother on my mothers side still says colored but I tell her the same shit. n/t |
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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
15. Maybe "Negra" was really "Negro" but with an accent...? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:44 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. maybe there were some Bushies working out back and she meant Negra-ponte |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 04:14 AM Response to Reply #19 |
49. Thank you for that |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
40. It was "Negra" |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:43 AM Response to Original message |
17. one side of my family was extremely racist when I was a kid, but mellowed when I got older |
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Truthiness Inspector (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
20. You sound like you just crawled out of a cave |
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Sanctified (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:47 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Why is that? |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
21. She may have had a good heart but she was a bigot too old to change. |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
26. I think you need to accept the time and place |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:15 AM Response to Reply #26 |
41. Thanks for the nice insight, Caintoad! |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:22 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Yr welcome. |
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onewholaughsatfools (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
32. times have changed |
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Omphaloskepsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
34. The terminology doesn't bother me as much as the context. |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
37. You're not going to change them. |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 02:31 AM Response to Original message |
38. The confusng thing about words is |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:20 AM Response to Original message |
42. I just wanted to thank those of you who have commented, |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:21 AM Response to Original message |
43. *I* don't think "you're" being rude to *me* or anyone else on this board. |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:37 AM Response to Reply #43 |
46. You're right. |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:52 AM Response to Reply #43 |
48. I try to imagine life in USA |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 03:38 AM Response to Original message |
47. I wouldn't assume your grandparents were racist |
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yy4me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 04:17 AM Response to Original message |
50. I understand the question here but not some of the answers. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
57. My grandparents were not so nice as that |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
58. Because they were racist |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
59. Not to dismiss it, |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-03-07 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
60. My take on it? |
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