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Subject: "Us did it in the 60s."
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SoWhat
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Tue Jan-27-15 01:20 PM
39. "Us did it in the 60s."
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Say it loud I'm Black and I'm proud moved us.
fuck you.
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I don't quite get why "Person of Color" = OK but "Colored Person"
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Buddy_Gilapagos
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Tue Jan-27-15 11:40 AM
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no need to get it...just accept it and KIM.... why y'all always gotta tr...
GHNO
Jan 27th 2015
1
Who is "Y'all"?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
4
LMAO
teefiveten
Jan 27th 2015
9
lol!! I get you mixed up with that white cat from Cali for some reason.....
GHNO
Jan 27th 2015
12
Who?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
15
My Dude, i don't be keeping up with y'all screen names like that.....
GHNO
Jan 27th 2015
26
In the US we don't like it
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Jan 27th 2015
2
We definitely don't either
blackrussian
Jan 27th 2015
11
I get it...
legsdiamond
Jan 27th 2015
3
kinda crazy b/c it's still in the GD name of the NAACP. so it's easy to ...
placee_22
Jan 27th 2015
5
Wait...people got mad at what he said? Good lord, that's stupid.
Marbles
Jan 27th 2015
6
We use one, they use(d) the other
Chanson
Jan 27th 2015
7
Just waiting on that Doctor Strange movie
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Jan 27th 2015
8
it's an antiquated term you expect people
teefiveten
Jan 27th 2015
it's an antiquated term you expect people
teefiveten
Jan 27th 2015
10
I think you're mostly right about those who use it...
Marbles
Jan 27th 2015
13
i think its understandable to expect a young person
teefiveten
Jan 27th 2015
18
a lot of old Black people say non PC shit all the time...
legsdiamond
Jan 27th 2015
29
I guess. Maybe to put another way is why did it become antiquated...
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
14
persons of color signs weren't on bathrooms
teefiveten
Jan 27th 2015
19
snowed in and bored out of my brains.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
22
watch stuff
teefiveten
Jan 27th 2015
24
pretty much. it
hardware
Jan 27th 2015
38
i might be explaining this wrong, but iirc it's because...
Hitokiri
Jan 27th 2015
16
this is how I understood it as well
KosherSam
Jan 27th 2015
23
African erases my Americaness......
GHNO
Jan 27th 2015
27
America erased your Americanness back in 1619.
Hitokiri
Jan 27th 2015
30
The phrasing is just off
Cold Truth
Jan 27th 2015
17
It just sounds that way because of history and context.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
20
history and context are of the utmost importance though.
Hitokiri
Jan 27th 2015
31
for a similar reason you don't refer to Ali as 'Cassius'.
SoWhat
Jan 27th 2015
21
Who is we? And when did we do this?
PimpTrickGangstaClik
Jan 27th 2015
32
This is the key. 'person of color' isn't a term specifically talking
soulfunk
Jan 27th 2015
37
people of color sounds just as stupid to me.
SHAstayhighalways
Jan 27th 2015
25
anybody not using Black to describe my brethren and sistren gets the sid...
GHNO
Jan 27th 2015
28
I use black or AA, I give side eye to anyone who says "Blacks"
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
33
lol!! yo, that 's'...it's crazy how just one letter just fcks up the who...
GHNO
Jan 27th 2015
34
If you say "The Blacks" you might as well say N#######
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
36
lolol
SHAstayhighalways
Jan 27th 2015
43
I had a head of HR from Arizona use the term "Afro-American"
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 27th 2015
35
when i hear People of Color i, i think not-white
hardware
Jan 27th 2015
40
same.
SHAstayhighalways
Jan 27th 2015
41
It all sucks monkey balls
ThaAnthology
Jan 27th 2015
42
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