cozby; temple of real niggas

You mean Negroids?

 

... say what...

 

Negro please

 

What about a black guy who isn't American?

One of my friends who is black was called an African American, even though he's Scottish. It was an American who called him that, I guess people on your side of the world are too used to calling a black guy an African American.

Having said that, calling someone an African Scotsman sounds wrong. It doesn't quite roll of the tongue.

 

Well if you weren't born in Africa, you aren't african.

 

I thought calling someone African American was supposed to account for their heritage being African but their upbringing being American?

 

You are right.

However, White America just calls anyone brown or black, African American.

I'm not even African American.

 

My mate Abdu prefers just to be called black.

He doesn't like people making a big deal over it.

 

Political correctness is a mixed bag. I totally agree with not saying offensive things, but sometimes the logic alludes me. "Black" seemed to be about ethnicity, and while imperfect and encumbered with baggage like the "one-drop rule" sort made sense.

Like Sammy Sosa for example. One could say he is a black guy. Or reflexively call him an African American, which isn't right because he is from the Dominican Republic. I guess he should be called an African-Dominican-American if one feels compelled to try and encapsulate his ethnic/national background.

Then there's Oriental vs. Asian and I do not regret that it is not cool to use Oriental, but it made more sense since when you say "Asian" you mean a person from the Orient, whereas Borat is from Asia but totally not Asian.

It may have been silly to resurrect this thread but I came across Tony's link to it and coincidentally had been thinking about Mike Tyson and Dave Chapelle...

 

Heh I know some blackity black latinos that refuse to be called black. I'm like if you're not black then I'm a dark skinned white person.

 

Don't call me black!

 

Re: Don't call me black!

god he looks fucking hideous as a white guy

 

Re: Don't call me black!

Yeah I'm bring this thread back heh heh.

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MEET ME SOMEWHERE! I WILL SMOKE YOU!

 

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LOL

 

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C'mon son, for real.

 

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We've been programmed from childhood

I've been seriously considering changing my GT to something including Hiphopkido

 

Cool story bro

 

The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus the redesign is based on your history to accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. Which was again frustrated by failure. I have since realized that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameter of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory, systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused, while a minority, if unchecked would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.

Which brings us at last to the moment of truth wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors, the door on our right will take you to the source and the salvation from your apparent negritude[/size]. The door to your left leads back to your nigga-hood[/size] and to shame for your current predicament called the now generation. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But here on VFDC we already know what you are going to do, don't we?

Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason, an emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth;

Hope. it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of our greatest strength and greatest weakness, yet for all the hope that I have,
it has failed me in that the word nigga[/size] in all its renditions, connotations, and denoting force still remains as the object of our own self imposed ridicule in the face of otherwise well deserved normalcy, achieved but not expressed in the level of survival that we have chose to manifest ourselves in.

And there are levels of survival that we are prepared to accept. But I did not think that the wholesale adoption of the fundamental manifesto of negritude and nigga-hood[/size] would be among them. The solution that permeates my initial hope was quite naturally perfect. It was a work of art, flawless. Sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure: The continued use, for better or for worse of any derivation of the word nigger[/size].

This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it. We fight to deny it but it is of course, pretense. It is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is that we are completely out of control.

Nigger, Nucca, Nigga, my nigga, Nagar. Cause and effect. Simple Causality. There is no escape from it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it. Which apparently at this juncture escapes us. To understand the why. Why is what separates us from them, you from me. The "Why" Cozby, is the only real source of power. Without it you are powerless.

And today my friend this is how you come to us, without why, without power. Simply another link in a long chain of confusion.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses but, rest assured, in time you will understand that it is not the power to redefine a word, but the power to banish it, that brings truth, purity, and progress to the thirst quenching fountains of wisdom, from which all real soldiers ultimately drink

To those who would destroy us. In the past, when we have relied on our great teachers to lead us, our enemies in high and low places, could deal us a mortal blow by simply lopping off our heads. Now in our oneness, we are not like a great beast which may be destroyed by a single well planned stoke to the brain. Rather, we are like an ocean of many waves, or a field of flowers. Though one or more may be uprooted, the others still live, and prevail