From: john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore)
Subject: Re: Term for blacks has changed (The true reason)
Reply-To: john@anasazi.com
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Arizona USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:38:54 GMT

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In article <casseres-060193164601@missmolly.apple.com> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres, who posts silliness with great productivity) writes:
>In article <1993Jan2.012646.5581@anasazi.com>, john@anasazi.com (John R.
>Moore, who is always good for a laugh these days) wrote:
>
>> Consider the followings:
>>   Is a North African Arab an "African American?"
>
>No, he's a North African Arab, not an American at all.

How about if he lives in america?
>
>>   Is Nelson Mandela an "African American?"
>
>No, again, he's South African, not American at all.  Am I missing
>something?
Yes, you are. Nelson Mandela was introduced at a speech in San
Francisco as an "African American" by a politically correct
person.
>
>>   How can someone whose ancestors have lived here for hundreds of years
>>     be any form of hyphenated American?
>
>Well, a lot of people whose ancestors have been here for over a hundred
>years are running around calling themselves Irish-Americans and
>German-Americans.  Are you going to get hysterical about them, too, or is
>this only a problem with what used to be called "niggers" before the
>Deconstructionist/Socialist Conspiracy took over (see below)?

Nice try, David, but I see you are still using perjorative smears
in your posting. I don't like Irish-American terminology or
German-American (and I have German acnestors) or Mexican-American
or any other kind of hyphenation of American.
>
>> I claim that the term was invented by the politically correct 
>> (deconstructionist) crowd in order to refer to destroy the term "American" and 
>> as part of a campaign to get all of us to think of ourselves by our racial or 
>> ethnic or sexual preference groupings. This serves to deligitimatize the concept
>> of a melting pot; to better the environment for socialist thinking by
>> encouraging people to think in terms of group membership (African-American,
>> Rich, Christian, Homeless, etc) as opposed to in terms of individual rights; to 
>> emphasize the "oppression" of black people; and, to increase stress in 
>> American society, so as to lead to an eventual restructuring of it in a 
>> "politically correct" way. THIS is where the terminology change comes from.
>
>And of course, the very same argument applies to the conspiracy to suppress
>the word "nigger" and substitute "colored," which came around the time of
>Marx and Engels; and it also applies to the suppression of "colored" in
>favor of "Negro," around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, and the
>suppression of "Negro" in favor of "black" during... uh... um... the Nixon
>Administration, yeah, that's what it was.
Silly David, you just don't get it.
>
>> Oh, another purpose for terminology change is so one can determine where in 
>> the radical hierarchy one is.... the sooner one starts using the new term, the 
>> closer to the font of knowlege one must be. This is important to those who
>> are into radical chic.  The ultimate in radical chic is to be one who
>> originates a terminology change (usually one must be a University
>> professor to achieve this pinnacle of intellectual achievement).
>
>This is all a cruel forgery by crazed ex-members of the Symbionese
>Liberation Army, intended to make poor John Moore look like a raving
>fruit-loop with counter-rotating eyeballs, right?
 Gee, I must have hit close to the mark to judge by that response.


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