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NAACP literally stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
There are actual real issues to get angry about. Pick your fights. This is literally another media concocted nothing-burger.
Was he responding to a question, or talking about or was the conversation in any way about the NAACP and is it normal to casually use the term "colored people" to talk about black people today in America? The answer is no.
This guy is a well paid supposed professional and a public servant and speaker and it doesn't take a particularly bright light bulb to know that there are some phrases or terms that might be inappropriate in some situations. We don't really say "colored people" in most situations when referring to black people and you can have your own thoughts about it and that's fine, but that doesn't change how society views the term at this time. This isn't some arcane, nuwoke librul knowledge, it's been this way for a little while. You also probably shouldn't just throw the term "negro" around wantonly if you somehow still didn't get the memo.
Sure, but what you're saying is akin to people saying that you can't take issue with anything because there are kids being blown up somewhere in the world right now. This isn't a battle, this is some dimwitted dipshit exposing himself as a dipwitted dimshit and that's OK. We can try to address big and small issues and while I do agree that the media often does sensationalize things, this is also not nothing considering how more emboldened and open racists are becoming and how many people are showing their true colors these days.
Is this a huge deal and should this guy resign solely based on this? Probably not. Is this maybe indicative of his true thoughts and his outdated way of looking at the world? Probably yes.
The United Negro College Fund also still exists and I'm guessing you don't call people negroes.
Personally, I think the phrase 'colored people' sounds negative and offensive today. I have to assume this wasn't always the case since it makes up 40% of the NAACP's name.
Edited to add - I should have said 'potentially offensive'. I do feel like the context in how it was used matters in this case. Our perception of things sometimes changes over time. If we have truely decided as a society to avoid the phrase entirely, then perhaps it's time to rename the NAACP?
And many black people use the n word all the time, doesn't mean it isn't ever a racist word or that anyone can just blurt out whenever they like in any context.
"colored people" is racist and if you think it's okay to say, you're racist too.
https://www.evnaacp.org/leadership/
Executive committee of the NAACP. I guess all these people are racist, according to you.
they're certainly perpetuating racism in keeping the name. Clarence Thomas is Black and he's racist against Black people, so it definitely happens.
Notice how no one here is even mentioning the actual law or any issues with it, just bashing him for misspeaking.
Shhh, they are trying to outrage over previous generational terms. The same group of people that get upset if you say Indian or Native American instead of Indigenous People.
You mean like indigenous people?
Like how the vast majority of Hispanics hate the term Latinx
Well that one actually was equally stupid and hilarious. It's really not the same as American native people not wanting to be called Indians. Because you know....they're not from fucking India.
See above, when a tribe talks about the collective of tribes in the United States the correct term is American Indian. In Canada, they do use the term for their tribes as indigenous people. It's quite disrespectful to tell a tribe they have to call themselves something different because Progressives don't like the word Indian. Also keep in mind the term Indian predates the usage for the Republic of India as it's people called themselves Hindūstān until 1858.
I don't know any indigenous people but CGP Grey said the most broadly accepted term is "American Indian" . Except he's not indigenous either so idk who he asked, where, how many people/tribes, etc. Also I've never heard this term used. But hey I'm honest about my sources and their shortcomings.
I've only ever seen non-Native Americans say such things. Indian is an excepted term and is included in the name of most organizations Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, Indian Health Services, National Indian Gaming Commission, Indian Claims Commission, National Museum of the American Indian, and the official national title for the various tribes is called the American Indian Nations. So no, indigenous people is not the correct terminology unless you are not an actual member of a tribe.
Interesting.
Who came up with the names of all of these entities?
In 10 years it will be some OTHER word that all of a sudden the media decides is considered a "bad" word. And then in another 10 years it will be something else. It is an endless stream of utter bullshit - people getting offended for utterly no reason other than to get offended. It is exhausting putting up with this nonsense.