Four teens in custody for NY Rape

National Action Network nationalactionnetwork.net/ by Al Sharpton who often lied.
the C is for Colored. offensive, no?

deafdyke said:
NAN? And the NAACP wouldn't be supporting white kids.....
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The organization NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization.
my mom was a member before I was born.

dd is right about the term.
 
Jane B. said:
I thought it went back further than that so I Googled it. The organization is even older than I thought — Feb. 12, 1909!

http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history
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dogmom said:
The organization NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization.
my mom was a member before I was born.

dd is right about the term.
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I don't really remember the term colored being used in the 1960s. And yes I was an adult then. My memory is that Negro was and Black was coming in.

I think they have kept the NAACP because they are sooooo well known by that and what it would take to get everyone to know who they are using anything else.
 
1960's? Polite terms were Negro and Afro-American. Black (Power, Panthers, is beautiful) exceptions.
 
Jane B. said:
I don't really remember the term colored being used in the 1960s. And yes I was an adult then. My memory is that Negro was and Black was coming in.

I think they have kept the NAACP because they are sooooo well known by that and what it would take to get everyone to know who they are using anything else.
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I imagine different areas of the country used different words.
 
I'll be more specific.

From 1961 to 1970, I lived in Connecticut. What I heard at that time was "colored" used in casual use but more respectfully "Negro". By the late 60's, more people were using "Afro" and "Afro-American" especially younger people. Radical and young people were beginning to use "Black power," "Black Panthers," and "black is beautiful." "Black" was not commonly used to describe an individual, such as "He is a young black man." It would be "He is a young Afro-American." The N----r word was not used by classy people. It was a word, like cuss words, that would get your mouth washed out with soap. During that period, the only time I heard that word used was during TV news coverage of civil rights clashes or riots.

That was my narrow experience, so I realize it wasn't the same everywhere.
 
When I lived in Boston .Ma. in the late 60's -70's and dated a Black man
I know a lot White men thought me as a ' N----r lover' . The police sure did . The word Negro or Colored was still being used a lot , I used Black .
Of course it depend on who you where talking to. It was very common to hear people use Color people in the 70's in Boston South end and my neighborhood where I knew up which was a very wealthy little town. Jewish people weren't welcome there when my parents moved in.
 
deafdyke said:
Agreed. This was unprovoked and they are obviously sociopaths. They need to be red flagged, and placed in jail forever!
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Got no problems with that....Unfortunatly some daft America doctors say it brain abnormal and it is believed that can be used as a card get out of jail free
 
whatdidyousay! said:
When I lived in Boston .Ma. in the late 60's -70's and dated a Black man
I know a lot White men thought me as a ' N----r lover' . The police sure did . The word Negro or Colored was still being used a lot , I used Black .
Of course it depend on who you where talking to. It was very common to hear people use Color people in the 70's in Boston South end and my neighborhood where I knew up which was a very wealthy little town. Jewish people weren't welcome there when my parents moved in.
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That's ironic since most people would think that a liberal state like Massachusetts would be more welcoming of diversity. In next-door Connecticut, Jewish people were respected and important in my community. I wonder what made the difference between two neighboring states?

Surprisingly, deep in the heart of Dixie Charleston welcomed the Jewish community since 1695.

http://www.isjl.org/south-carolina-charleston-encyclopedia.html

Not to mention, Reuben Greenberg, the first Jewish Black police chief in 1982.

Stereotypes can't be trusted.
 
a friend of mine remembers when she moved to Maine in the 70's and soon upon moving in was approached by a neighbor at her home. It was a man who asked if she was "a Jew " and then complained about the Jewish people "moving in"; he returned a different time and brought Neo-Nazi materials he wanted her to have. She was heavily in the move for the ERA and the civil rights and GLBTQ movements and responded to this man as you may guess...also wrote about a protest song about it. She's a folk singer/songwriter and it's one of my favorites of hers.

My mother has been heavily involved in public education, de-segregation and unions/community organizing since I was a young child. From her I learned about feminism, and racism and equal access/education. Much of her work included things like going to meetings, writing resolutions and grant requests, and newsletters, organizing, and so on. She is 80 and still very active today. one time she was meeting with a few people regarding some civic project. Part of the meeting involved discussing money. A comment was made by another participant about "jewing someone down".
This did not go over well. It was in the 80's, in a Northern metro area.

I myself had experiences as recently as a few years ago.

My point is that anti-semitism is alive and well. Like racism, it also hides behind niceties, code phrases and what is -not-said as well as what is.
 
dogmom said:
a friend of mine remembers when she moved to Maine in the 70's and soon upon moving in was approached by a neighbor at her home. It was a man who asked if she was "a Jew " and then complained about the Jewish people "moving in"; he returned a different time and brought Neo-Nazi materials he wanted her to have. She was heavily in the move for the ERA and the civil rights and GLBTQ movements and responded to this man as you may guess...also wrote about a protest song about it. She's a folk singer/songwriter and it's one of my favorites of hers.

My mother has been heavily involved in public education, de-segregation and unions/community organizing since I was a young child. From her I learned about feminism, and racism and equal access/education. Much of her work included things like going to meetings, writing resolutions and grant requests, and newsletters, organizing, and so on. She is 80 and still very active today. one time she was meeting with a few people regarding some civic project. Part of the meeting involved discussing money. A comment was made by another participant about "jewing someone down".
This did not go over well. It was in the 80's, in a Northern metro area.

I myself had experiences as recently as a few years ago.

My point is that anti-semitism is alive and well. Like racism, it also hides behind niceties, code phrases and what is -not-said as well as what is.
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When I went to a boarding school in Maine a class asked what religious
I was . I said I was Jewish and she said " I never seen a Jewish person before." I was like WT? ! I wanted to say " Oh no I hope my horns aren't showing!" My daughter had a horrible time when we first moved here. The boys in her school were very racist ! She didn't tell when what going on b/c my daughter knew I would had gone to her school and said something .
I once met a guy in the woods when I had Finlay and we got talking about which vets to go to. The guy said he had a real good one that gave discounts for people that had more than one pet. Then the guy leaned forward and said "But he is a Jew " . I backed away from the guy real fast and told him I am Jewish and to get away from me ! I wish I had gotten the vet name so I could had called him and let them know what this said. The vet was giving him break on his vets bills and the guy was calling the vet a Jew! :mad:
 
dogmom said:
a friend of mine remembers when she moved to Maine in the 70's and soon upon moving in was approached by a neighbor at her home. It was a man who asked if she was "a Jew " and then complained about the Jewish people "moving in"; he returned a different time and brought Neo-Nazi materials he wanted her to have. She was heavily in the move for the ERA and the civil rights and GLBTQ movements and responded to this man as you may guess...also wrote about a protest song about it. She's a folk singer/songwriter and it's one of my favorites of hers.

My mother has been heavily involved in public education, de-segregation and unions/community organizing since I was a young child. From her I learned about feminism, and racism and equal access/education. Much of her work included things like going to meetings, writing resolutions and grant requests, and newsletters, organizing, and so on. She is 80 and still very active today. one time she was meeting with a few people regarding some civic project. Part of the meeting involved discussing money. A comment was made by another participant about "jewing someone down".
This did not go over well. It was in the 80's, in a Northern metro area.

I myself had experiences as recently as a few years ago.

My point is that anti-semitism is alive and well. Like racism, it also hides behind niceties, code phrases and what is -not-said as well as what is.
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Around here people would be more opposed to the union organizing than to race or religion.

We had no Jewish people "moving in" because they were already in the neighborhood before we were. I guess we were the ones "moving in".

Maybe because my mom and most of my family wasn't bigoted, and we didn't make friends with people who were bigoted, I wasn't exposed to much bigotry other than what I saw on the news. We supported the 60's civil rights movement. I had diverse friends, classmates, neighbors, relatives, co-workers and teachers. Many of our business owners and politicians were Jewish, in addition to other ethnicities.

We were snobbish about the South, I admit. We Yankees assumed the Southerners were so bigoted because they were simply uneducated and ignorant.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
When I went to a boarding school in Maine a class asked what religious
I was . I said I was Jewish and she said " I never seen a Jewish person before." I was like WT? ! I wanted to say " Oh no I hope my horns aren't showing!"
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Did she say it in a mean or condescending way? Or was she merely stating a fact?

When we lived in Wisconsin for a short time, my daughter was in middle school. One of her new classmates asked what her religion was. She said, "Baptist." The classmate asked, "Is that Lutheran Baptist or Catholic Baptist?" They had never before met a Baptist. My daughter wasn't offended. She just thought it was weird.
 
Reba said:
Around here people would be more opposed to the union organizing than to race or religion.

We had no Jewish people "moving in" because they were already in the neighborhood before we were. I guess we were the ones "moving in".

Maybe because my mom and most of my family wasn't bigoted, and we didn't make friends with people who were bigoted, I wasn't exposed to much bigotry other than what I saw on the news. We supported the 60's civil rights movement. I had diverse friends, classmates, neighbors, relatives, co-workers and teachers. Many of our business owners and politicians were Jewish, in addition to other ethnicities.

We were snobbish about the South, I admit. We Yankees assumed the Southerners were so bigoted because they were simply uneducated and ignorant.
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My mother wasn't a bigoted dad was and my ex brother is . My older sisters and I have Black daughters and my younger sister husband is from
Trinidad . One of nieces husband is Asia , my daughter's dad was Black and Indian her husband is Italian . When we got together for mom's birthdays we looked like the United Nation . Mom was so proud of her whole family. I thanks my mother for not being a racist .
 
It's good that your family was more open-minded, Reba.

In the United States people are exposed to racism from birth. White/Christian privilege means some don't see it.

That kind of thing about the boarding school in Maine, WDYS - that happened to me very recently.

When you are a member of the group as in WDYS's story <and I'm talking about any "minority" or "ethnic" groups> it's feels...hard to describe, but reminds you of how you are really "other" or invisible or different. As I'm a member of more than one "minority" I have other stories pertaining to that as well.
An acquaintance of mine and I were talking one day and it was around the Dec. holiday time. She asked - so what are you doing for Christmas - and I said, I'm not Christian, I'm a Jew - and she's like - well I never knew what Jewish people do for Christmas- and I explained a little <the other part of this is, the decision always to explain or not, how much, what do you say...sometimes it's easier than others>
She then thanked me for telling me more about what "they" <jewish people> do. sigh.
So then I asked her what she was doing for the holidays and she described.

Then she either said - have a good Christmas - or something about my involvement with Christmas, and I said again that I don't observe/celebrate Christmas.

That's a minor thing compared to what people of color face but when that type of thing happens all the time, it gets old. And it can all be said <by the other person> in the cheeriest most pleasant way possible.

It's almost <remember I qualified it> easier to deal with true hatred, as when the Neo-Nazis came to town here about 5 years ago.
 
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