"Negro"

[hotbikermama40]

ho·mo·phone
ˈhäməˌfōn,ˈhōməˌfōn/
noun
plural noun: homophones
each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, e.g., new and knew.


And people were arguing that Trump supporters are highly educated the other day.

Our education system in this country was bad before wait till Devos is done with it

You copied and pasted a definition. Too bad you couldn't do the same for comprehension. And that was with an example provided for you. You are worse than stupid. You are willfully so. Only you would take something verbatim from the dictionary and twist it to mean what you want.

Read this slowly: Negro (a person of color) and Negro (Spanish term for 'black').
Spelled. The. Same.

 

[vraiblonde]

John McWhorter, an African American linguists and African American studies, explained the phenomena. At first a word is introduced because the group feels the current term has a negative stigma and is offensive. And at first the new term has a neutral feel to. However over a generation it tends to pick up the same negative connations of the word it replaced.

Originally people said people with low IQ's were "mentally handicapped". Over time that term started to pick up negative connations, so advocates for people with low IQ's advocated using the scientific sounded term, retarded. At first that had a neutral feel to it. However, a generation later, if you wanted to put down somebody, you would say "Are you retarded?" It had picked up the same negative connations. And thus advocates for people with a low IQ started advocating for a new term, which is where we are now.

Same thing with African Americans. African Americans is the preferred neutral sounding term. Before that it I think it was negro and colored (I cannot remember if negro replaced colored or vice versa). Over time African Americans will likely feel that the term "African Americans" has a negative connation and come up with a new preferred term.

According to McWhorter, its all natural language change.

That *is* interesting, and also interesting that white people don't care about their labels or being called something as a group. We've been "white people" for as long as I can remember and we didn't care, to my knowledge. Even when black people say "cracker", we don't care. "Honky" - don't care. "Haole" "Gringo" "Grey Meat" - yawn. Occasionally a white person will feign outrage at being called a "slur", but they aren't really offended - they're just trying to make a point. Racial slurs don't stick to white people the way they stick to black people because...we don't care. Those words don't have the power to hurt us and cause us to feel inferior.

White people also don't have this need to keep changing what they want to be called as a group and how they self-identify. (In general. Obviously there are a handful of white people who appear to have identity issues and feel the need to call themselves something or be something other than what they are.)

That's something I'll have to explore at a later date.

 

[vraiblonde]

Have I ever felt a need to identify as a European-American ?
NO !
Have I ever met a real Afro-American ?
YES !
Twice, and both of them were white !

The only actual African person, who was born and raised in Africa, that I know is white as well. Blond haired and blue eyed, no less.

Charlize Theron is African.

 

[vraiblonde]

Are you really that stupid?

OMG!!!!!



These are SO! my favorite posts!!!

 

[hotbikermama40]

Maybe this will help you understand, braindump:

each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling


Negro- 18-19 century term for a person of color now considered offense by many

Negro- a Spanish word pronounced differently referring to a color.Pronounced different??? Ummmm...no it is not. And comparing the actual pronunciation of the Spanish to the Americanized way it is sometimes spoken doesn't count.

'Negro' and 'Negro' are not two words...you can see, obviously, one word. From that one word, you can correctly contrive two distinctly different meanings or origins.

Now, 'Negros' and 'Negroes' on the other hand, are two distinctly different words with only one pronunciation.

 

[Merlin99]

each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling


Negro- 18-19 century term for a person of color now considered offense by many

Negro- a Spanish word pronounced differently referring to a color.

My original definition was correct as is yours patchetic attempt at making me look wrong.

It's the exact same word, no different meaning, origin or spelling. Both uses of the word mean black.

 

[littlelady]

Maybe this will help you understand, braindump:

I didn't have my glasses on and I thought you posted :brainup:

 

[littlelady]

It's the exact same word, no different meaning, origin or spelling. Both uses of the word mean black.

So, black people do not want to be known as black/negro, but they love to categorize white people. When I read this thread it made me think of the show Orange Is The New Black. Oh, the twisted hypocrisy of it all. :

 

[Hank]

So, black people do not want to be known as black/negro, but they love to categorize white people. When I read this thread it made me think of the show Orange Is The New Black. Oh, the twisted hypocrisy of it all. :

And of course you are probably dense enough to think that all black people think this way... I doubt you have any black friends that you could talk about these concerns you have about categorizing.... Hell, I'd be surprised if you had any friends? You're just a bigot. I can tell by the way you label them as "they" as if "they" all feel the same...

 

[Hank]

I don't. Nor do I have any Gay, Trans, Muslim, Socialist, Communist, Pedophile, SJW's and Terriorists freinds......not by choice, but I seem not to travel in their circles.


...but I do have Asian, Hispanic, Liberal, Consevative, Coptic Christian, Evangelical, Jewish friends.

So what is your point?

Was I talking to you?

 

[vraiblonde]

Do you have any black friends?

One of my best friends was a black man, but he died a few years ago and I never replaced him in my inner circle. So now my handful of close friends are woefully nondiverse. But honestly, he was one of those "fake black guys" that our Paterson Museum docent would have sneered at. He voted for McCain over Obama.

Why do you ask?

 

[vraiblonde]

Was I talking to you?

 

[Hank]

One of my best friends was a black man, but he died a few years ago and I never replaced him in my inner circle. So now my handful of close friends are woefully nondiverse. But honestly, he was one of those "fake black guys" that our Paterson Museum docent would have sneered at. He voted for McCain over Obama.

Why do you ask?

I was just curious.... I can't think of one of my black friends that would be offended by being called negro... We even call each other "my negro".

 

[vraiblonde]

I was just curious.... I can't think of one of my black friends that would be offended by being called negro... We even call each other "my negro".

Well, I never referred to FreD as "my negro" because it's rude and we didn't talk to each other like that. He wasn't a banger, he was an educated professional who liked classical music.

 

[Hank]

Well, I never referred to FreD as "my negro" because it's rude and we didn't talk to each other like that. He wasn't a banger, he was an educated professional who liked classical music.

Ha! So you have to be a "banger" to use "my negro"?... That's rich! My friends are educated, talented professionals, Dear... I will let my negro friends know that they need to listen to more classical music, so us whiteys aren't so threatened by them...

 

[littlelady]

And of course you are probably dense enough to think that all black people think this way... I doubt you have any black friends that you could talk about these concerns you have about categorizing.... Hell, I'd be surprised if you had any friends? You're just a bigot. I can tell by the way you label them as "they" as if "they" all feel the same...

Whatever, Hankaroo. I grew up in the South during all that strife in the 60's and 70's. I was raised by great parents that taught me to not be prejudiced/bigoted/etc. You are such an arse. You know nothing about my life, except what I have posted here. Stop being a troll, and get a life.

 

[Hank]

Whatever, Hankaroo. I grew up in the South during all that strife in the 60's and 70's. I was raised by great parents that taught me to not be prejudiced/bigoted/etc. You are such an arse. You know nothing about my life, except what I have posted here. Stop being a troll, and get a life.

That ignore feature works great, Bigot! Another sign of your idiocy...

 

[littlelady]

Well, I never referred to FreD as "my negro" because it's rude and we didn't talk to each other like that. He wasn't a banger, he was an educated professional who liked classical music.

Really, vrai. That seems beneath you to post that, or something like that.

 

[vraiblonde]

Ha! So you have to be a "banger" to use "my negro"?... That's rich! My friends are educated, talented professionals, Dear... I will let my negro friends know that they need to listen to more classical music, so us whiteys aren't so threatened by them...

No need to be defensive and hyperbolic.

 

[vraiblonde]

Really, vrai. That seems beneath you to post that, or something like that.

I'm pretty sure you misread my post. Try again.