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‘African-American’ is the new ‘colored’.
We (which as usual means white people) all have that 80 year old person in our lives (I’m not naming any great aunts by name, but you know who you are) who, to be polite and respectful when referencing black people uses the term they were taught was the least offensive: ‘colored’. And it makes the rest of us (again, white people) cringe.
Its not that they hate blacks, just the opposite. They are trying to be respectful and in their day of fire hoses, German Shepards, and Aryan Major League Baseball; ‘colored’ was the least derogatory term.
Hell, the main association promoting black people, founded 100 years ago, even uses that term for themselves. Obviously at one point they explicitly chose ‘colored’ as the word to best describe them collectively. You can’t fault anyone who took a cue from them and adopted their term as their own.
However, time and the collective vocabulary marched on, and some people just didn’t keep up. Using the word ‘colored’ doesn’t make someone a Klan member-just kind of, but really not at all-all at the same time. A person who uses ‘colored’, most likely through circumstances somewhat in their control, have had no or very little interaction with black people and thus had no way of staying abreast of the current nomenclature for them. Kind of racist, but really not at all-all at the same time. They aren’t calling for the world to be divided by race, but it wouldn’t affect their lives nor would they care any if it was.
So, whenever you hear an old white person use the term ‘colored’, it just says something about their life and how white bred it is. ‘African American’ does the same thing. It’s the ‘colored’ of a new generation.
I cringe just the same, even worse, when I hear white people under 50 use it as I do people over 50 using ‘colored’. When used, you just know that person knows no black people, doesn’t want to and is really afraid of them. So, to not anger them and trigger the race war they know is coming, they try to use the most respectful word they know of, ‘African American’.
It’s very similar to the way most people talk to really old people, other peoples’ kids and retards. So overly respectful it’s condescending. They talk to them like they aren’t the person they are, but this placeholder of a person. They talk almost at them, except they are trying so hard to not seem like they are talking at them, its uncomfortable. Pay attention the next time someone who is uncomfortable around retards, kids or the elderly has to talk to one and you will see what I mean. So overly respectful it’s condescending.
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