By An Old Friend
Sat, Nov 20, 2021 10:55 p.m.
The Progression of Terminology for negroes
N.S.: When I was a child in the 1960s, ordinary folks, White and black alike, said "colored people," while fancy pants types said "Negro." However, there was no good reason for capitalizing "negro." After all, it only meant "black." You didn't capitalize "white."
In The Truth According to Tony Brown, Brown says that until the turn of the 20th century, everyone wrote, "negro." Then W.E. DuBois launched a one-man campaign to change that, writing every newspaper editor in the country, pressuring him to improperly capitalize "negro." And they all folded, just like powerful White folks always do, when black racists start screaming.
I'm amazed that a mainstream comic artist could get away with discussing such matters. Oops! I just saw that the strip is from 1988!
I'm amazed that a mainstream comic artist could get away with discussing such matters. Oops! I just saw that the strip is from 1988!
There are only two steps left in the progression of what blacks are striving to achieve:They're attempting to be called "kings" by Whitey,but after that,the #1 way that blacks want to be addressed,is the term they used deferentially to Whites in the mid 1800s--"massa".
ReplyDeleteThey won't be satisfied until Whites call THEM "massa"--and I believe,this is what everything is boiling down to right now.But,let me make this point very clearly: blacks can only be leaders,if Whites allow them to be.
--GRA
We used to call them colored or negro on the south side of Chicago in the 1950's and I hardly see any reason to do otherwise now.
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