RE: Ask a black atheist
July 1, 2015 at 12:34 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2015 at 12:35 am by FriendlyNeighborhoodAtheist.)
(June 30, 2015 at 5:38 am)pocaracas Wrote: What do journalists call a black guy from the UK? (hint, it's not african-american)
Um...I would assume just black, or black/african british lol.
(June 30, 2015 at 5:38 am)pocaracas Wrote: Also, a little curiosity. I'm portuguese... some of my ancestors were responsible for taking african people to the americas... great for them, huh?
Anyway, around here, we also have two words for the black color: preto (translates to black) and negro (translates to...errr... negro).
The curious part is that, in portuguese, the politically correct way to refer to the skin color of a black person is to call it "negro". "preto" is seen as pejorative.
Yea, strangely here in america lately calling someone black as opposed to african american is politically incorrect or a perjorative like you say. I think that's just silly to be honest. I'm black(albeit light skinned) I'd expect you to call me black or african american if you prefer, it makes no difference to me. Hell you can call me nigga or negro if you like. I get annoyed at people who say "you can't call us that because slavery". I hate when people use ancestors and history as a reason why you can't use certain words. It's kinda like when at a comedy club a joke is made about a person with x disabilty and some SJW, PC police twat says no you can't say that, even though said person with disablity thought it was hilarious. Anyways lol, that's just what our society has become I guess.
