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Is It Now Offensive To Described A Black Person As Black?
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How come black people say they're proud to be black but when someone else says they're black they take offence? If he's black he's black. What's to be offended about?
13:39 Tue 19th Feb 2019
spathiphyllum
/// the fact he's black has nowt to do with football AOG. ///
Try telling them that, when they are always harping on that there are not enough 'BLACK' Managers in English Football.
Never hear the other-side of the coin, in so much, "there are too many black players in English football" and neither should there be, Black or White it should be the best who are chosen, no matter the colour of their skin and who can do the job best.
/// the fact he's black has nowt to do with football AOG. ///
Try telling them that, when they are always harping on that there are not enough 'BLACK' Managers in English Football.
Never hear the other-side of the coin, in so much, "there are too many black players in English football" and neither should there be, Black or White it should be the best who are chosen, no matter the colour of their skin and who can do the job best.
> To be a fair comparison it would have to be something like "waspish, white and wily".
Sorry, in more detail, it would have to be a black commentator commenting on a white player, saying something like "waspish, white and wily" - and yes, I would think that was an odd thing to say. To paraphrase TheCorbyLoon, being waspish and wily are qualities which affect the way a person plays football, whereas being white does not.
Sorry, in more detail, it would have to be a black commentator commenting on a white player, saying something like "waspish, white and wily" - and yes, I would think that was an odd thing to say. To paraphrase TheCorbyLoon, being waspish and wily are qualities which affect the way a person plays football, whereas being white does not.
"I would never use the words 'that black fellow over there' neither I suspect would anyone under the age of 80."
I appreciate it is all hypothetical, but if there was somebody in a crowd and I was asked to point that somebody out and he happened to be black, I would say something long the lines of "the black guy over there". I wouldn't try to identify him to somebody by describing his shirt, trousers, shoes or anything else, when the most obvious way to point him out would be his colour.
I am nowhere near being 80.
I appreciate it is all hypothetical, but if there was somebody in a crowd and I was asked to point that somebody out and he happened to be black, I would say something long the lines of "the black guy over there". I wouldn't try to identify him to somebody by describing his shirt, trousers, shoes or anything else, when the most obvious way to point him out would be his colour.
I am nowhere near being 80.
spathiphyllum
/// I've said it before but "black" isn't a race. ///
Then perhaps you should look up the true definition of the word Xenophobic?
"Having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people of other countries".
I think you will find that Tom Elliott was born in Leeds, and I think that you will also find that, that fair city is in England.
/// I've said it before but "black" isn't a race. ///
Then perhaps you should look up the true definition of the word Xenophobic?
"Having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people of other countries".
I think you will find that Tom Elliott was born in Leeds, and I think that you will also find that, that fair city is in England.
Nor me, any more than I would avoid saying "The woman with the bright red face" if she was looking flushed, or "the white guy" if he was in a crowd of black people. There's a difference between it being a defining characteristic and an unnecessary statement of fact, which I've tried to show with my "white" example.
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