Originally posted by john9001
what would you call a white person from south africa living in the USA? a African American? What about someone from Morocco? What about an Egyptian?
I of course refer to myself as a Euro-American.
but negros call me redneck.
You know, it's funny. Ebonics' was made an official language during the Clinton years, and they drop the N-bomb all the time, as often as Real english uses pronouns. It's an essential part of the language, it seems.
But they don't want you to speak it. It's like trying to speak spanish and order at a mexican resteraunt, and a white man can't order a Burrito because it's offensive coming from him...But They can call it that on the other side of the counter, and in the back of the kitchen. It's forcible exclusion of a cultural item, one that actually generates racism. If you want true equality, then dammit, be equal. Speak the same language as those around you. Work and live by the standards' that everyone else has to. Don't cry and whimper and whine about the way things were before you were born, If you want things' to be better today.