Comments on: Education/Segregation: Sloppy Language and Thinking. https://thyblackman.com/2016/02/14/educationsegregation-sloppy-language-and-thinking/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:24:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Nicholas https://thyblackman.com/2016/02/14/educationsegregation-sloppy-language-and-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-274465 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:24:18 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=57917#comment-274465 Well done and interesting Walter Williams. May I point out to Marque Anthony (sic), that in the context of Walters article, Black does not represent a color, it is a state of mind. The term African American, suggests Africans somehow have assimilated into American society, which we all know is a stretch, at best. To be Black is to adopt specific behavioral patterns consistent with honesty, sincerity and protective of other Blacks even the least of them. African American is neither a ethnic group or a race as you described.

]]> By: Marque Anthony https://thyblackman.com/2016/02/14/educationsegregation-sloppy-language-and-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-274451 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:27:32 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=57917#comment-274451 What’s sad is that we African Americans are still calling ourselves BLACK because Caucasian oppressors called us that to contrast their color and to assign to us all the negative things BLACK is equated with in the dictionary. The fact is, like it or not and believe it or not, YOU ARE BROWN and your car tires are black. You can say black is a culture but when they deal with you, they deal with you based on it’s definition – dismal, gloomy, dark, diabolical, treacherous, devoid of light.

WAKE UP AFRICAN AMERICANS. We do not call the Asian yellow man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Native American a red man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Hispanic man a brown man because he would not stand for it. And many Africans, Haitians and Jamaicans do not accept being called a color they know they are NOT.
Ironically, African Americans are the only ethnic group/race on the planet which allows ourselves to be called a color we are not, allowing ourselves to be defined by color, by someone else and to allow ourselves to be attached to a color we are not – a color they filled with negative denotations. Then we fight to help keep the lie in place.

Is it any wonder that cops treat us as BLACK people by the definition of dismal, gloomy, treacherous, evil etc? We will never rise and overcome as a people if we allow other groups to define us, to define us with a lie and we are sadly willing to help them. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES MATTER PEOPLE. Black is the color of my car tires, not my skin. I am a family and relationship counselor who specializes in deprogramming African Americans from slavery mindsets.

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