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RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(08-05-2016 11:27 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I don't know of one black person who wouldn't accept being called black.

What kills me is when people say "blacks". Drives me up a damn wall.

Something else that I find interesting though: the term "white" has a complicated history in this country. It has been arbitrarily defined since our founding.

I agree with you that the use of the word "blacks" or "the blacks" the pejorative way many people seem to use it is not helpful. Better to say 'black people,' 'people who happen to be black' or, as Curtis Mayfield termed it: "we people who are darker than blue."

And I agree that the term 'white' and what it means exactly has been somewhat arbitrary, although around a general consensus. My friend from South Africa, who as I said was of mixed heritage; white, black and Indian, commented about it this way:

She said that when she was out alone, she could "pass." Meaning she felt most people she encountered when on her own, if they didn't know her, assumed she was, generally 'white.'

When she was with her husband somewhere, a former Olympic athlete who was dark-toned black, then people would treat her as 'black.'

When she used the term "mixed' to describe herself, which, considering her heritage is factually correct, she said it often made people in America uncomfortable to hear that word, even though she was fully comfortable using it to describe herself. "Americans are weird," she used to say.

Edit: I've added the video to the song:

Artist: Curtis Mayfield
Album: Curtis
Cut: "We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue"
September 1970 Curtom Records



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RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?) - GoodOwl - 08-06-2016 12:32 PM
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