Does anyone actually say "African-American" in everyday life?

You all are some old fucks!!!!

FYI: corporate HR's teach managment to never use African American now. It is offensive to no African blacks
 
Really? Are there many in Philly?

ummm it's a myth
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^^^^Goombah-American.

lol I have not herd that since the late 70's. Made me laugh.


Growing up you knew who the wiseguys were. They did a better job at protecting the neighborhoods than the cops ever did. The cops never understood the loyalty that we had for the old time wiseguys. They did not prey upon their own neighborhoods and they made sure it was safe on their block. You still see a few of the old school in neighborhood bars.
 
ummm it's a myth
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lol I have not herd that since the late 70's. Made me laugh.


Growing up you knew who the wiseguys were. They did a better job at protecting the neighborhoods than the cops ever did. The cops never understood the loyalty that we had for the old time wiseguys. They did not prey upon their own neighborhoods and they made sure it was safe on their block. You still see a few of the old school in neighborhood bars.

I knew you'd appreciate it in context. "Goombah" is a word I never used except in reference to movies. I don't even know if I spelled it right.
 
I knew you'd appreciate it in context. "Goombah" is a word I never used except in reference to movies. I don't even know if I spelled it right.

Goombah is used by Americans as derogatory. Among Italians it's like calling each other "hey bro".
 
I think human would be preffered all else seems to just lead back to nigger!
 
I do, when I'm too lazy to say "People of African descent." Sometimes I also say "black." Kind of depends on the setting. I use the very PC first when I'm teaching or talking to people I don't know. I use African-American in somewhat more casual settings, and I use black with people I know well and have heard refer to themselves that way, or, if they're not black, have heard use it with no negative connotation.

Examples:

I'm teaching evaluation of skin color, temperature, moisture as a vital sign. "Of course we don't care if someone is of African ancestry, or Indian, or Chinese. It's about peripheral blood flow."

I'm posting with someone I don't know well, who is of African descent. "Well, African-Americans do have a significant burden, in that someone can tell from a hundred yards if they're not Caucasian, and they have to constantly deal with that distant evaluation."

I'm posting with Irezumikiss. "You black guys have an automatic advantage, because you're cool and the press release says you have giant cocks."

So you admit to using racist standards, different behaviours when you know someone's race?

I just hate everyone equally regardless of race (or WingedKiss, would you prefer irregardless).
 
I don't....unless I'm talking to or about someone from Africa...otherwise they are just M'erican....black if there is some reason to make a distinction, nigger if they wear their pant's around their ankles and have $30,000 rims on their 500 dollar rust bucket while speaking something slightly resembling English.

I'm not racist though....the REB flag wavin mullet fuck with truck nuts get's called a hillbilly cousin fucker just as quick.

I'm an equal opportunity hater of trashy people.
 
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So you admit to using racist standards, different behaviours when you know someone's race?

I just hate everyone equally regardless of race (or WingedKiss, would you prefer irregardless).

:D

I don't prefer it, irregardless of my journalistic training.

:D
 
I don't think "irregardless" is a real word.

I could be wrong.

But......

Could be one of those non-words like "ain't" that became a word due to general usage by dummies like me.
 
I don't think "irregardless" is a real word.

I could be wrong.

But......

Could be one of those non-words like "ain't" that became a word due to general usage by dummies like me.

It's not a real word. It sets my teeth on edge, it was a joke originally but it's morphed in to giant slut monster like my first boyfriend.
 
My elevated social status tags the rest of you as NIGGAZ until you prove differently.
 
I do. I also say Native American instead of Indian and Asian instead of Oriental.

I can't work my way to saying "person of color" because I don't consider "white" to be essentially transparent. It's still a color.
 
I don't think "irregardless" is a real word.

I could be wrong.

But......

Could be one of those non-words like "ain't" that became a word due to general usage by dummies like me.

I don't think it should be a word. Whether or not it's been used enough, it's just got an extra syllable it doesn't need.

Flammable and inflammable bug me too. Why have an extra syllable if it means the same damned thing?
 
Nope. It is true old timer. African American has been anti PC for about 5 years now. Just becuase someone is black does not mean they are from Africa....

Then why does the SHRM still use it in all their materials?
 
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