"african american"

My point is, it's not a regional flaw, it's a human flaw. It's a group of ignorant close-minded twisted individuals, it has nothing to do with the area they live in.

 

Well, technically it has, because the KKK stand for White purity of the United States of America.

 

hooooooly, stop the bitchin' about the KKK, it's not getting anywhere.

Everyone who's jumped into this discussion is picking apart minor parts of what folks have posted and are complaining for the sake of complaining, it's what it sounds like.

As far as that statement, L.A., it kinda sounds like you're startin' something. The KKK is a problem. Being that outwardly racist in the KKK-redneck sorta way is just simply retarded. It isn't a flaw of the entire country, it's a flaw of the individual people who are part of the group.

And as it has been pointed before, every country, no matter where you live, has a group of extremists or right-wingers or racists or whatever, it isn't fair to generalize about one country or one group of people for the sake of argument.

 

Agreed. My apologies.

 

L.A., just so's you know, I didn't mean that to be picking on you specifically, I just thought that the wrong details of posts were being picked apart and overexaggerated...

 

Interesting thread, thanks to all of the contributors.


I have not ever met a black who did not take pride in being called black, if they wished to be referred to as another wording, then I, would do so, without a thought. Why not and why would that be an issue to me, unless I had an issue.......

It comes down to respect of another being. Words aside, it is respect.

 

love is the drug to remedy the wrongs of the past.

 

Nope, the drug we believe to be the high of love instead dupes us into thinking for a short period of time it is the answer is the error in the present and also of our past and if we do not correct it, the future. Called hormones!

Not sure what your post has to do with the topic........but none the less it is a thought.

 

well I guess it had to do with the fact that this topic is not something debatable... the only way we can make a difference in this world is to approach eachother with love. Individually and as a whole. Not hormone infested love... but love for humanity.


Is that still too random ???

 

that was not your post.........with further explanation, your thought process is clearer.

Thank you for the clarification on what that was, as without it, your thought process in this thread with that post, was not in context, now it is.

While I do agree that as a whole to accept is to love without boundaries, it is not going to happen as too many do not love even or accept themselves..........that be life


Instead I choose to love those that come into my path with out harming others with intent, regardless of gender, colour or beliefs.........works for me.

Blessings to you and yours.

 

oh I thought "peace and light" in your sig meant "love for humanity" just like I said in my clarification post.

 

I'd just like to point out that "Indian" is not in any way disrespectful to most "Native Americans". They actually refer to themselves as indians. I'm sure you know how the name came to be all those centuries ago, how the name is part of a navigational error. But the name stuck and that is what they have since been called. A kiwi is from New Zealand, not Kiwiland, a Tico is from Costa Rica, not Ticoia, and an Indian is from America (or Canada, or the Americas).

 

the original term of africa was for some people who lived near carthage in north africa... to call everyone in africa an african is like calling everyone in america, bostonians

 

Haha, sharp.

 

Depends on the individual... here in Saskatchewan (and I'm sure in parts of Manitoba as well, where whc is from), some people do get offended if you call them an Indian. Particularly if you're not native. I just stick with the term Native because, well, fewer syllables and less chance for drama.

 

"Afri
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The Afri (singular, Afer) were a people located on the shores of the southern Mediterranean Sea near the city of Carthage. The first record of their existence was made during the Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) between ancient Rome and Carthage. The name may be connected with Phoenician `afar, dust (also found in other Semitic languages).

The most common etymology for the continent of Africa is traced to this group. The Romans referred to the region as Africa terra (land of the Afri), combining "Afri" with the suffix "-ca" to form an adjective. Following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War, Rome set up the province of Africa."

since carthage was a phoenician colony, it would seem that the people whom africa was named were phoenicians... possibly???

 

Well, I also red that in the backcountry of Carthage (in the desert of Tunesia and Algeria) you had the land of Numibia. Carthage would get their slaves from there and it was also called Africa by the Romans. Numibians were black, so it even fits the term 'African' better as well :tongue:

 

I'm sorry I am married to an "Indian" and "Indian" in my province is very inappropriate.

First Nations people were wrongly "labelled" when their land was "discovered" and "taken" because the explorers mistakenly thought they had sailed to "India".

It is very offensive here. It reminds us of the colonization and victimization that Aboriginal people suffered as a result of "European" settlers.

My husband gets offended when he sees Aboriginal people "exploited" on the Simpsons or Family Guy.:H


We don't even say Native here. Not our government either.

That's why I am suggesting that we drop the labels.

 

if anything "indians" like to go by their tribal identity... lakota, choctaw, navaho, hopi...

 

right on sister.