tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979350.post6362121367202025080..comments2023-12-19T21:26:52.930-08:00Comments on Upper Left: Yep.Shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10000043157715554910noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979350.post-26504894463566633482010-01-11T22:11:55.185-08:002010-01-11T22:11:55.185-08:00Don't wince. Understand that Negro is a perfe...Don't wince. Understand that Negro is a perfectly respectable word that, when it commonly used, carried a respectful inference.<br /><br />No one who prefers another term should be called a Negro in defiance of their wishes. That could be construed as racist. It would unquestionably be rude. Nothing at all like that going on here, though.Shaunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10000043157715554910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979350.post-86785505415147345292010-01-11T05:31:43.396-08:002010-01-11T05:31:43.396-08:00There is quite a discussion on nuances of this in ...There is quite a discussion on nuances of this in the comments at <a href="http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2010/01/harry-reid-apologizes-for-negro-comment.html" rel="nofollow">Lindsay Beyerstein's place</a>. I can't stand Reid, but I do see this probably as more generational and locational (small town Navada Morman) than racist. It <i>is</i>, however, quite stupid of him, especially since he has been in politics so long. I don't think Harry Reid is very bright, period.<br /><br />But then, there is the United Negro College Fund....That has made me wince for thirty years, now! Jeezo.blueskynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979350.post-82584119430695529702010-01-10T22:02:53.496-08:002010-01-10T22:02:53.496-08:00Truly, the noise about what Harry Reid said is a t...Truly, the noise about what Harry Reid said is a tempest in a teapot. The sad thing is it is true.<br /><br />Evidence of that is when Jesse Jackson was picked up, by a microphone he didn't know was on, saying how he wanted to cut off then candidate Obama's testicles because he "talks down to black people."<br /><br />It's like Chris Rock once said; there are two ways to talk: one, if you want to get the job, and two, if you don't. Same thing applies to a bank loan (such as they're being given, these days) or the job of President of the United States. <br /><br />But that is something that may be changing - but slowly.Terry Parkhursthttp://www.partsandpeople.comnoreply@blogger.com