How come all republicans are hypocrites?

( Yes I was chastised by her for saying the word in general conversation within earshot of him ( actually he is like radar)….I didn’t call anyone it just said it in reference to the Imus thing…)

I looked this word up when I was in school… It means or meant before the language police got ahold of it, “Poor Ignorant Person, and/or Uneducated person”.
It was reference towards blacks because of their slavery, ( they were uneducated and poor).
Now it has become such a taboo ….People fallout when they hear it…..Almost like whispering…”the emperor has NO Clothes”

If you were playing cards and you had a handful of trumps you wouldn’t give them up would you. Thats what political correctness is . If you can keep your job by claiming the boss is racist feminist homophobic ageist or any of the others you will pull the trump card.

Politicians jump on any bandwagon carrying the right cargo. Look how hard it was to get the Tory party leader Cameron to say he had smoked canabis, thats a wagon he wants no part of for obvious reasons.

So don’twaste your time on the argument. I can’t wait till they set up the correctness for short arses and fat bastards, I’m on both those lists. Sorry gingers, I agree, you should be in there already.

I also had some BLACK people refer to themselves and other BLACKS as “colored” but yeah, thats another story too….

I was basically just being a smartass on the whole “So then the earliest form of man walking up right can be traced back to Africa…”

On the subject of genetics:
So then the earliest form of man walking up right can be traced back to Africa….at the moment….does this make us all African-Americans? By genetics technically….yes
The question I’m asking is where the cut off line is for XXXX-American?…generation wise When do we just call ourselves AMERICANS?

I do agree with you 100% on the “The term African American is the politically correct way, supposedly, to refer to dark skinned people who claim African heritage. I don’t believe that is appropriate because it sort of invalidates those who are truly of direct African AND American descent.”

My grandfather was born in Hungary in 1913. He moved to the US when he was 6 months old. He became a US citizen. But, he was Hungarian. That made him Hungarian-American. He married my grandmother, who was born in the US, as were both of her parents. She was completely Norwegian by heritage, but already the 2nd generation to be born in the states. She was, simply put, an American.

Technically, my mom was American as well, since both her parents are citizens. But, she could also claim to be Hungarian-American, since she was the first generation of my grandfather’s family to be born here. But, his US citizenship kind of made that redundant.

Obama’s father was not a citizen of the US. He was a citizen of Africa, who just happened to attend school in the US. That makes him African, regardless of his residence. And, that makes Obama African-American, regardless of his residence or citizenship.

His children, as I said above, are simply American.

That is what I was trying to emphasize. I obviously didn’t do a very good job of it. The term African American is the politically correct way, supposedly, to refer to dark skinned people who claim African heritage. I don’t believe that is appropriate because it sort of invalidates those who are truly of direct African AND American descent.