Blacks: What do you want me to call you?

[Mise]

All I saw

...was the first sentence?

 

[Photi]

the answer to this question is so contextual. i think the question being asked is "what do black people want to be called by white people?" in america, 'negro' and 'colored' used to be polite terms used by whites who did not want to use the other n-word. but, since those words were used while segregation was still in effect, they captured a segregationist hue. after the civil rights movement, those words became much more offensive for obvious reasons. as far as i can tell, in my corner of the country blacks like white people to call them 'black' or 'african-american.' i personally think 'black' sounds cool. in the south usa, maybe things are different. i think in the sudan, 'blacks' are christian, and 'arabs' are muslim, even though the colors are not that different.

what is significant is that america now has a black president and i think that is awesome. definitely good for our karma.

 

[The Fishman]

I hope that sometime in the near-future people will forget about the unscientific concept of race and just think of skin colour as they would think of hair colour or ear size or height. Race is a useless thing to know about, we would get on much better if we had no concept of it, and it does us no benefit even when people do get on.

When race does not exist in our minds anymore, then the dreams of Martin Luther King and the like will come true.