--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Mario, > > I think I was quite clear and specific in my post > when I said, "blacks" is an acceptable term in > America. The term is not offensive to them, it is > offensive to me as a human being to have to refer > to another human being using their skin colour as > an indication of category. > Mario wonders: > Is it contradictory to concede that the term "black" is acceptable to blacks, yet be offended by it? > How are YOUR sensibilities paramount in an issue that has little or nothing to do with you? > Is this because YOU subconsciously think a "black" skin is inferior in some way, due to your Indian inculturation, even though the African-Americans themselves don't feel that way? > When African Americans consider their black skins to be beautiful as a matter of ethnic pride, who are we to withold referring to them in a manner they prefer along with "African-American", another term you apparently avoid in preference to "negroid" which is clearly objectionable to African-Americans in today's usage? > I don't think the caste analogy applies here because I think the references in Goa to someone's caste are snide and made behind their backs. If someone who is Catholic made such a caste reference about someone else in my presence I would immediately object, wouldn't you? > >
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