Stupid Quotes
This is one reason to use the words black or white:
… it’s been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.
No the French are not killing Americans.
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November 9th, 2005 at 11:43 am
“it’s been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed”
Gosh, I hope it wasn’t the Gun Guy’s kids.
November 9th, 2005 at 11:47 am
Is “dumbass” hyphenated?
November 9th, 2005 at 12:34 pm
Hilarious. Those TV journalism jobs are challenging.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
Ya know, I’m sypmathetic, but what happens when they’re of Chinese or Japanese descent? Do we call them “yellow?”
November 9th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
I’d call them oriental.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Tom and Uncle: not only were these guys not American in any way (this was in France, for anyone who hasn’t gotten the joke), but even the “African” part in this context is totally unhelpful in determining the person’s ethnicity. They could be sub-Saharan Africans (i.e., black), or they could be North Africans (most of the Muslims in France are Algerian, Moroccan, or Tunisian). In fact, it’s the latter, but you’d never know it from that CNN report.
November 9th, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Then consider me a european american, on second thought, white is fine.
November 10th, 2005 at 12:51 am
Les:
I know. The problem is that there simply is no inoffensive way to refer to someone’s ethnicity if you don’t know precisely what it is (which, because of slavery, we often simply don’t know for blacks).
Uncle:
I’m pretty sure that’s generally considered offensive, although it varies from person to person. I hear “asian” a lot, but I don’t think that’s right, either.
David:
I prefer “cracker ass crackah.” Or “polack.” 🙂