The Shortlist

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

So are mohawks and 80's music, but that doesn't stop some people from wearing them/ listening to it.
 
 

Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
 
 
 But negro is a bit dated. Just FYI.

[pepper*sans*salt]

True, Rhett. But those people are  WRONG.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

good point.
 
 

Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
  True, Rhett. But those people are  WRONG.

[Celeste]

I like my site better...they mention the NYT review of Persepolis 2.

[mankie]

Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
  Just call me black, thank you. We as a people change nickname like every decade or so, so I don't expect white people (or anyone else for that matter) to keep up with them.
 
 But negro is a bit dated. Just FYI.

Let me ask you a question if you don't mind..
 
 How do you feel about the term "African American"? It just seems silly to me. It would be like calling me "Scandavian English" because my ancestors came from there most likely.

[Random Citizen]

Originally posted by Bollocks:
 How do you feel about the term "African American"? It just seems silly to me. It would be like calling me "Scandavian English" because my ancestors came from there most likely.

That's my mother's thinking, too. She uses "colored" as a derogatory term towards other blacks because we don't use the n-word. That is verboten.
 
 For me, ideally, I'd rather be known as a chick instead of "the black chick."  

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

We went to the baseball exhibit at the Natural History Museum. On display, they had a newspaper article from some time ago which proclaimed "So and so to be named first black manager."
 
 Yet the person who wrote the caption at the museum wrote "This newspaper shows the announcement that 'so and so will be the first african-american manager'"

[pepper*sans*salt]

Allow me to answer your question, Bollocks. You see, I'm a lazy person. Saying i'm African American takes too much energy. I'm black. Ahh! So much more simple. You're a scandinavian english american? (okay..) You're white. So much less confusion.
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   

Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
  Just call me black, thank you. We as a people change nickname like every decade or so, so I don't expect white people (or anyone else for that matter) to keep up with them.
 
 But negro is a bit dated. Just FYI.

Let me ask you a question if you don't mind..
 
 How do you feel about the term "African American"? It just seems silly to me. It would be like calling me "Scandavian English" because my ancestors came from there most likely. [/b]

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by Celeste:
  I like my site better...they mention the NYT review of Persepolis 2.

true, but it also contains links to bad UPN show websites.
 
 -10 points.

[ggw]

I wonder if the Black Nerd will weigh in on this issue?

[nkotb]

I like playing Shortlist Judge!
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes  
 Wrens - Meadowlands
 Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
 Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly  
 Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
 Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In the Hands
 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
 A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
 Air - Talkie Walkie
 Melt Banana - Cell-Scape

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

The Black Nerd told me she lost the password to her login name.

[Jaguär]

To my thinking, Black denotes a race.
 African American denotes nationalities which is basically what you were saying Bollocks.
 
 For the record, there are White African Americans. They are White people who were citizens of some African country who then became American citizens. All the more proof that the term African American isn't really the best of terms to use when specifying someone's race.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  No, those were not my feelings.
 
   

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   
 
 "Keb Mo is one negro who should be shot" leads us to think you want him shot because he's a negro. Which I hope is not your feelings.
 
 

[/b]

cause you have no feelings do you Rhett, you cold little man.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
 
 Yet the person who wrote the caption at the museum wrote "This newspaper shows the announcement that 'so and so will be the first african-american manager'"

I was watching a hockey game one time (big surprise) and the announcer was speaking of the first African-American hockey player to get a hat trick, and then stated that he was from British Columbia.  
 
   go Fox Sports Net