Just an observation on the conversation at hand. Somebody not knowing how an individual feels about certain words and then being annoyed when asked to change their vocabulary doesn't necessarily make them a racist.
It's not a gotcha moment. The part about it being a mistake on your phone is completely fine. It happens. Someone tells you it is a harmful derogatory term, the first thing you try to do is justify it by claiming it is commonly used over here. That is what was gross. It reminds me of when I grew up with a severely autistic brother and someone would say the R word in reference to friends. I would start seeing red and yell at them. They would try to justify why its not derogatory. Just stupid bro. You're better than that.
Yeah and when someone tells you it was a voice to text error AND the slur makes no sense in the context....
Oh no. I said that was understandable. But you can see how even a politically correct person can be made to feel and respond in a defensive way after even an innocent miscommunication. No worries at all. I don't think any less of you. It was honestly just an opportunity for an experiment. I'm sorry if you were offended or made to feel uncomfortable.
Every American needs to decolonize their mind. Black people too. The whole colorism thing where darker black people have issues with lighter skinned black people is a construct of white supremacy (lighter skinned black folk were allowed to live inside the enslaver's house). You are who you are when the police show up. Someone tells you decolonize your mind and you take offense because that's white fragility talking. An issue that you not only have yet to address with yourself but haven't even acknowledged it's existence. This also is mindset decolonization. Then you get into semantics to deflect the use of the term boy for black men. It's so hard for you to even consider changing your mindset on that. Again, white fragility and necessary mind decolonization. You're probably even more mad now...
This is your heritage. Even people from England don't call themselves white. Also, if you have 10% Indigenous blood, trace your history and I guarantee you'll find colonialism... Y'all need to figure out these constructs. Because they have you convinced we're different races... White and Black are not races of people, homo sapiens are...
I agree with this. There are definitely NOT different races of people. That is a problem with how some people think.
I wonder if it's Ok to teach Othello? Othello was a Moor, referred to as a Black man. Interestingly, color prejudice wasn't a thing in early 17th century England. Othello was a general and hero. Desdemona was a lady of the highest Venetian society. Her father was furious when she married Othello, not because of color but because of class. And that she eloped. He fully expected to arrange her marriage to a nobleman of her class and even charged Othello with witchcraft because what but a spell could make his daughter run away with a husband of her choosing. Examinations showed Desdemona was in love, not witched. And Venice was attacked by Turks, so needed its best general, Othello. Iago's machinations were born of professional jealousy, not racism. Race prejudice came later in England.
My great grandma considered herself full Native. Her husband was mostly irish. No idea when his side immigrated. My grandparents on the other side immigrated in the early 1900s from Ireland. I have no problem not referring to white and black if that is what you're saying. I don't really like to bring up race. Just trying to have a conversation to continue to learn. Appreciate you @dviss1. Enjoy hearing your perspective.
See... But you got Tim Scott and Kamala Harris saying this isn't a racist country... All skinfolk ain't kinfolk...
The Virginia State Supreme Court decided the statue of traitor general Robert E Lee can finally come down. About 150 years late.
