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Are African-Americans a mongrel people?

Are African-Americans a mongrel people?


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What about this guy?

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Disturbing white guy with odd-colored orange/blond hair... :mrgreen:

Or is that an albino black guy? :mrgreen:

/shrug

Doesn't really matter, whatever descriptors necessary to describe someone, should be acceptable - within reason.

As in: "That scrawny n*****". Scrawny is fine, but not the other.

Too much racism involved in the other word.
 
What if they are from South Africa and are white?

If they are *from* South Africa and are white, they are.............. African-Americans.

That is... if they are now Americans.
If they are just visiting... they are African... or South African if they prefer.

That gets me thinking... what do you call a guy from The Congo?

Congolian?
 
If they are *from* South Africa and are white, they are.............. African-Americans.

That is... if they are now Americans.
If they are just visiting... they are African... or South African if they prefer.

That gets me thinking... what do you call a guy from The Congo?

Congolian?

It gets really confusing when you start having to deal with the South American Americans.
 
Albino......

Technically he would still be black or african american (or whatever terminology you wish to use). My point is that no descriptor is ever going to totally work and its silly to try to find one that fits all cases. The important thing is that people are people.
 
What if they are from South Africa and are white?

ahem.. I believe the proper form in which to address said man would be simply to reverse the word order, thereby making a distinction for skin color while keeping the nationally-hyphenated PC form intact and without actually having to refer to color (so tacky, don't you know). The are American-Africans. :prof
 
I hate that term "African American".

Unless you came from Africa in your lifetime and now live in America, most "African-Americans" don't have a damned clue what being "African" is.

The term itself brings an image of someone who has more loyalty to the first hyphenated portion of their "politically correct" name than being American.

I wonder if you make such a period laden fuss about Irish-American, Italian Americans, Polish-Americans, Scottish Americans etc. Seriously, why not just come out of the closet already Caine? We all know.
 
I wonder if you make such a period laden fuss about Irish-American, Italian Americans, Polish-Americans, Scottish Americans etc. Seriously, why not just come out of the closet already Caine? We all know.

Actually, I do.

The only people who should keep their Hyphenated bull**** are first generation immigrants. Their children on the other hand who are raised in America, like American children, going to American schools, with American cultural influences and upbringing are, plainly put... AMERICAN.

Everyone whines about everyone being the same, yet continuing to cram these ethnical differences down our throats is only going to contribute to treating each other differently based upon ones own self-identified "ethnic tag".

Im an American. Nothing more.

BTW: Thanks for trolling and attempting to bait me once again.
 
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I wonder if you make such a period laden fuss about Irish-American, Italian Americans, Polish-Americans, Scottish Americans etc. Seriously, why not just come out of the closet already Caine? We all know.

Are you suggesting however that Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc are used nearly as much in every day life, in entertainment, and in the media as the term "African-American"?

If not, is it not reasonable to generally speak more about something that is normal and wide spread than something that is relatively unusual or not common.

Seriously, the only time I hear "Irish-Americans" routinely is occasional stories during St. Patty's Day.

Not to mention this thread is specifically about one of those groups listed above. Is it unreasonable to suggest people would actually discuss those people that are actually the TOPIC of this thread?
 
I wonder if you make such a period laden fuss about Irish-American, Italian Americans, Polish-Americans, Scottish Americans etc. Seriously, why not just come out of the closet already Caine? We all know.



Never used any of those, see I'm a mick, I live across the street from a wop, who is married to a polock, At least that's what my sheep-shagger buddy tells me. :ssst:




In reality, none of us use hyphenated labels so this fails on all levels.
 
Which reminds me...

Isn't one of the reason we're told those slurs aren't as bad is because they're not as common, haven't been used reuglarly in so long, and generally are less prevelant then the N-word.?

Is that not the same thing in regards to "Irish-Americans" or "Italian-Americans", as they're not nearly as common, haven't been regularly used in a long time as a daily designation, and are generally less prevelant then African-American.

I'd say the only thing that is as commonly used recently is "mexican-American" and that's only since the immigration stuff really upticked.
 
The only people who should keep their Hyphenated bull**** are first generation immigrants. Their children on the other hand who are raised in America, like American children, going to American schools, with American cultural influences and upbringing are, plainly put... AMERICAN.

Actually, I would say the immigrants tend to call themselves by their nation of origin without the hyphenated addition of "American" to their description. Their children are the only people who have a legitimate reason to add the hyphen to the description because the children of immigrants are usually bi-cultural. They will have the American cultural influences AND the cultural influences of their parents. The influence from their family-of-origin should not be discounted.

These children will be equally able to blend into either culture, but they will also be removed from each by some degree. This is one of the major reasons why children of immigrants, regardless of the nation of origin, tend to befriend each other at higher rates than they befriend children of non-immigrants. There is also a high tendency to marry other children of immigrants or actual immigrants (first-born children of immigrants have a higher tendency to marry immigrants than their siblings).

Also, many of them will have dual-citizenship, making the hyphenated term correct on a very technical level as well.

For their kids, however, the hyphenated term becomes insignificant and it doesn't apply, especially after they become "mogrelized", like my own children will be.
 
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I hate that term "African American".

Unless you came from Africa in your lifetime and now live in America, most "African-Americans" don't have a damned clue what being "African" is.
I observed, some time ago, that The Obama is a true 1st-generation African American.

As such, He is distinctly seperate from self-styled African Americans in that His acsnestors were not held by White Americans as slaves, and therefore has no legitimate claim to share in their plight.
 
Have fun finding a term for african americans that isn't derogatory that has been coined by our society since they were brought over.
I like to follow along with name of the pre-eminent organization that claims to represent them and refer to them as 'colored'.
 
I like to follow along with name of the pre-eminent organization that claims to represent them and refer to them as 'colored'.

... cant say colored....

(or boy)
 
I say "people of color" sometimes (or "women of color", or "children of color", or whatever).
I like the sound of it; it's inclusive. Some of the smartest black people I know say it.
Nobody's ever told me it's hurtful or unacceptable.
If it becomes unacceptable in the future, I'm sure someone will let me know.
 
Why would you want to?
Why not? If they use the term to descrie themselves, it must be OK to use the term to describe them.
 
Why?

And, we're all "colored"... Different colors, true, but still...

If you are white, and someone is in the mood to be racially offended by you at that moment, "Colored" will be offensive.
 
Why not? If they use the term to descrie themselves, it must be OK to use the term to describe them.

You are gonna have to do better than that. Why would you personally wish to call someone that?
 
You are gonna have to do better than that. Why would you personally wish to call someone that?

Then what shall your racial politically correct self suggest he call them?
 
You are gonna have to do better than that. Why would you personally wish to call someone that?
I believe I addrsssed this.
Their leading organization refers to them (and others) as colored. If that's good enough for them, then its good enough for me.

The qiuestion is - why isn't it good enough for you?
 
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