What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee

[Edwardo Piet]

Why is it always racist people who refer to black people as 'blacks'?

Hmm. I guess it's kind of like how homophobes refer to gay people as 'the gays'.

This is  nonsense. I use the term "blacks" myself. You want to call me racist? Every black person I've talked to about indicates that they're fine with it. I'll take their word over yours.

It seems it's a lot more common than I thought it was. I guess it's just a British thing.

We say 'black' or 'black people' all the time over here. But we don't say 'blacks'. It must be an acceptable term in America.

There are also some fucking idiots up here in the north of England who think that even saying 'black' or 'black people' is racist... and they actually react offended and tell me not to say that and say I should say "colored"... LOL. Colored is a racist slur.

So weird how it depends on where you live sometimes.

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Hey LFC, sweetie, how do you make those awesome emoticons? I used to use the Tapatalk codes you used because they were awesome emoticons but they stopped working. Now you are using emoticons but when I quote you it doesn't show the code.

I'm guessing it's Unicode. Which I can never get to work

They are straight from my iPhone!

I'm so jealous.