Discuss Black History Month (Myth Busting)

Right said:
There is no WET because its owners would be labelled as racists.
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No. There is no White Entertainment Television because as I've already explained Whites are overtly represented in the media in the first place. Why would they need a television show dedicated to their culture when their culture is overtly represented in the first place? That is the fucking point. I sound like a broken record. Despite the fucking influx of illegal immigrants Whites are composed of over 64% of the U.S population. They asre majority of the 1% of the wealth holders and they make up of majority of Wallstreet. You want a fucking show because you feel left out because blacks and hispanics who by comparison are still a minority have some sort of representation? Get the fuck outta here.
 
Sun Devil said:
It's common sense Teflon...

As an Irishman who considers himself Irish-American...

The Irishman claims ancestral lineage to the land called Ireland although his origins are of America. That is his genetics, his culture, is that of those who are of the country that is called Ireland. The same with Brack Obama calling himself African-American or black. Although genetically, he is bi-racial he owns his cultural heritage to that of African-American culture because that is how he identifies himself.
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Just the other day Billy posted that he was Irish... not hyphenated with anything, just Irish.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
I am the only one on here that can truly call themself Irish. Billy is just a plastic Paddy.
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I don't know why Americans do that anyway. Xenophobes complain that immigrants must learn the English language and assimilate themselves as fast as possible, yet see no irony in calling themselves a hyphenated nationality.

(If you read this Billy, xenophobe doesn't refer to you.)
 
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cawacko said:
If you are black, from Africa and move to France (so you have no roots in the U.S.) would you expect to be called African-American? That's what my friend brought up and I have no idea what the correct terminology would be.
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Because you went to USC and are a drunkard!
 
christiefan915 said:
Just the other day Billy posted that he was Irish... not hyphenated with anything, just Irish.
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I also use the term Gaelic-American, when required to do so. But when speaking of heritage, I don't really feel the need to include American in it. It should be pretty obvious, among other Americans with whom I am conversing, that I'm American.
 
My Czech great-grandfather once voted as a school board member to hire an Irish woman as teacher because he knew she wouldn't speak any Czech and it would help the community youth by forcing them to work at picking up English.

I am cut-off from my Czech, German, Irish, and Slovenian roots, and I have never felt bad about it. Being Irish still has some quaint interest in America (especially on 3/17). Typically these ethnic groups came here and became pawns of the Democratic Party, for which I find them all the more difficult to respect.

No hypens for me.
 
Unicron said:
I also use the term Gaelic-American, when required to do so. But when speaking of heritage, I don't really feel the need to include American in it. It should be pretty obvious, among other Americans with whom I am conversing, that I'm American.
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To each his own. I always think of Irish (Gaelic, British, etc.)-American as someone like 007 who came over and became a naturalized citizen.
 
The 12th Man said:
My Czech great-grandfather once voted as a school board member to hire an Irish woman as teacher because he knew she wouldn't speak any Czech and it would help the community youth by forcing them to work at picking up English.

I am cut-off from my Czech, German, Irish, and Slovenian roots, and I have never felt bad about it. Being Irish still has some quaint interest in America (especially on 3/17). Typically these ethnic groups came here and became pawns of the Democratic Party, for which I find them all the more difficult to respect.

No hypens for me.
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I had relatives who immigrated from Germany and spoke no English.
They refused to allow their children to speak German at home and required them to speak English, so that they would be able to learn what their children had been taught.
 
The 12th Man said:
My Czech great-grandfather once voted as a school board member to hire an Irish woman as teacher because he knew she wouldn't speak any Czech and it would help the community youth by forcing them to work at picking up English.

I am cut-off from my Czech, German, Irish, and Slovenian roots, and I have never felt bad about it. Being Irish still has some quaint interest in America (especially on 3/17). Typically these ethnic groups came here and became pawns of the Democratic Party, for which I find them all the more difficult to respect.

No hypens for me.
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Pawns, that's a pretty harsh assessment. What did Dems offer that Repubs didn't, and I'm talking about back in that day.
 
christiefan915 said:
To each his own. I always think of Irish (Gaelic, British, etc.)-American as someone like 007 who came over and became a naturalized citizen.
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The term 'white' is culturally destructive. It lumps me, and my family, and heritage, in the Belgians, and Swiss, and Italians, and a host of other nationalities that by and large do not share anything other than a border and a skin pigmentation (and not even that many times).
 
Unicron said:
The term 'white' is culturally destructive. It lumps me, and my family, and heritage, in the Belgians, and Swiss, and Italians, and a host of other nationalities that by and large do not share anything other than a border and a skin pigmentation (and not even that many times).
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I wasn't referring to "white" as an identifier, rather "American".
 
Sun Devil said:
I say white casually here but I have said Caucasian. The reason I don't say Caucasian American is because its really not used because unconsciously people assume such in such cases because America whether Canada or U.S is predominantly white. People often times such as myself do not decipher between French-Canadian, Irish-American Scottish-French on so forth because we all unconsciously assume anyone (no offense to anyone here) with pinkish fair skin is white. White people do it. Black people do it. Arabs, Mexicans etc.

Let me ask you something why do "Caucasians" call Puerto Ricans Mexican when they speak spanish? LOL
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I prefer white, black. It's easy, my friends of African lineage like it, so that's that. We're all Americans.
 
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