You are truly an idiot and a racist (apparently). You seem to think
that calling someone an African American vs. a ****** somehow
obsolves you from the thought that went behind calling the person
a ****** in the first place. No intelligent person would ever call
someone a ******, unless you were living in the 1800s or earlier.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:33:00 -0500, "katysails"

said:

Doesn't matter what you call the tail, or the leg, as long as it isn't
crude or rude...

curmudgeonly discourse
Du'n matter what I call it even if somebody does thinks it's crude or
rude.
It's still the same old tail.

Having spent 50 years hearing that one must say Negro, not ******, one
must
say black, not Negro, one must say African-American, not black, one must
say
afro-American, not African-American, one may say ******, but only if he is
African-American etc., etc. I can only laugh when I hear someone making
much
of such nonsense. The only thing "correcting" such words does is to label
the person doing the tut-tutting as either a self-righteous fool, or
someone
with an irrepressible need to push his own agenda.

An yes, I did deliberately commit the horrible offense of using "his" to
mean "his or her," "his/her" or whatever flag-waving combination of words
is
current.
/curmudgeonly discourse

Dave
S/V Good Fortune
CS27