Ukraine/The Ukraine

[Marcus C. Levitt]

Is the answer to Jennifer's question (how exactly do you refer to African-Americans in the privacy of your home?)

necessarily racist? That seems to be the unspoken conclusion. But such alternate terms as "black" and "negro" are not necessarily derogatory even if A-A is more politically correct.

Yours,

Marcus


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net<mailto:ameliede at earthlink.net>> wrote:
On 22.06.2014 8:55, Jennifer L. Wilson wrote:
"Old guys like me are still coherent enough to switch to
African-American when speaking to my A-A neighbor, but my neighbor is
rational enough not to tell me to use only A-A even when speaking to my
own family members in the privacy of my home."

I will be unsubscribing from this list.  I'm very saddened at the number of people who said "I agree with Jules" after a comment like this.  To Jules, how exactly do you refer to African-Americans in the privacy of your home?

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