Racist Song?

[kuhio98]

...But, I have never had any of my black friends (and where I grew up, that's all I had) say they minded if I called them black instead of African American. My friend Lovette actually laughed and said, "heck, none of my family is from africa."

I saw Whoopie Goldberg on a show once. I loved what she said. I won't be able to quote her exactly, but she said something liked ~ Don't call me African American. I don't want anything to come between me and being an American.
I few years ago there was something on the news about Tiger Woods asking him how he wanted to be referred to. Was he African American? A Thailand American? An African-Thailand American? He responded something that was full of hyphens because his Mom's genetic background was mixed of several ethnic groups and so was his father's. I found myself wishing that he had just said, "I am an American".

[IRescue452]

I'm rarely pc, everybody is an American, so I don't have to worry about terms of correctness, if only the rest of the country would get that through their skull. I wanted to be an entomologist for a long time. I never drink and neither does my family, but you know if I had the money I'd move back on the reservation in a heartbeat. There just aren't any jobs to be had there. We stick out like sore thumbs here in Dutchland. Whenever I hear people trying to come up with pc terms I am so amused. People are so scared to offend others. I just wish they'd wise up about certain things, like black people not coming from Africa, they are Americans. I always imagine the white man coming to America years ago, thinking they were in India and calling the natives "Indians". Now, centuries later, they still haven't figured out we aren't Indians. You hicks are so stupid. How's that for pc.

[BOBS DAD]

I saw Whoopie Goldberg on a show once. I loved what she said. I won't be able to quote her exactly, but she said something liked ~ Don't call me African American. I don't want anything to come between me and being an American.
I few years ago there was something on the news about Tiger Woods asking him how he wanted to be referred to. Was he African American? A Thailand American? An African-Thailand American? He responded something that was full of hyphens because his Mom's genetic background was mixed of several ethnic groups and so was his father's. I found myself wishing that he had just said, "I am an American".

My parent's liked to say that we were "Croatian Americans) and I guess that makes sense since they grew up speaking Croatian first and foremost and only English in Public and School. BUT that was then and This is NOW. My kids are told they are AMERICAN, just like all of their friends. Just like Whoopie, Tiger, JFK, George Bush, Michael Jordan or George Lopez! People of my Ethnic background around my parts are sometimes referred to as "MillHunkies". Not so much anymore since most of the Steel Mills have shut down. Although some found it offensive, I always thought it kind of funny and never really bothered by it!!!

[finn's mom]

He responded something that was full of hyphens because his Mom's genetic background was mixed of several ethnic groups and so was his father's. I found myself wishing that he had just said, "I am an American".

I kinda like that he did that way, but, I didn't hear his tone. If **I'd** said it, it would have been with a bit of a sarcastic tone, like you'd have to call me Cherokee-Irish-German-French American. But, yeah, I see your point. I still would like to have actually heard him say that.