Politically Correct lemmings

[jlzinck]

I had a discussion that got heated with a sports card collector, who drive a Prius with an Obama sticker on it, the other night regarding race and sports.

We were talking about the color barrier and sports and were discussing how the record books would look in MLB if the likes of Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Cool Poppa Bell were let into the game before their prime.

We talked about how the Red Sox were the (My words in ") last team to have an "African American" player and how the Bruins wre the 1st team to have a "black" player.

Mr PC lemming wanted to know why I used 2 different terms for Pumpsie Green and Willie O'Ree and I tild him because they were different.

He goes on about how disrespectful is was to call Mr O'Ree black and how things have changed in the country. Blah, Blah, Blah.

I then asked how a Canadian could be called African American.

He again chastised me for using the word black because it is demeaning.

Again I asked how a Canadian could be called African American.

He left grumbling that a was a republican nazi.

What a tool

[shortking98]

He seems a little (or a lot) oversensitive about the issue but I think technically a Canadian could be African American because it's all still North America. It still seems like overkill though on his part

[jlzinck]

He seems a little (or a lot) oversensitive about the issue but I think technically a Canadian could be African American because it's all still North America. It still seems like overkill though on his part

So then technically someone from Mexico would be a Mexican African American?

African American is a term for someone from Africa heritage who is now from American.

I'm waiting for Charlize Theron to become an American citizen so I can call her an Sfrican American

[gatorboymike]

Dave Matthews, one of the whitest guys in the history of the world, is an African-American. He was born in South Africa.

And I've never met a black person who was offended by being called black, but I have run into a few white people like this guy who got offended on behalf of black people for them being called black. What nonsense.

[haybierman]

And I've never met a black person who was offended by being called black, but I have run into a few white people like this guy who got offended on behalf of black people for them being called black. What nonsense.

We've had this discussion before. I think Red put it best - the only people that say African American are people who don't have any black friends.

[streicher187]

I hate the term African American, last time I checked we were all Americans...

[haybierman]

Great Teddy Roosevelt quote...

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

[RedGoneWILD]

great post

Great Teddy Roosevelt quote...

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

[jlzinck]

What a great president Teddy was.

Can you imagine Mr Obama saying this today? Pelosi would have him deported and incarcerated at Gitmo.

Great Teddy Roosevelt quote...

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

[jaybird_1981]

What a great president Teddy was.

Can you imagine Mr Obama saying this today? Pelosi would have him deported and incarcerated at Gitmo.

If he hadn't closed it.