You cant control others reactions...its a word that describes a color, use it.

Wonder what that person would have done if you both were talking in spanish.

Btw, I still call them the Redskins and Im definately not white.

 

It's my favorite color. I wear black, drive black, my dog is black and my business has black in its name. None of it has anything to do with anyone's skin color.

It's just a color. People that are over-sensitized to the word need to get over themselves.

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Spanish speakers are always getting in trouble with the blacks because the Spanish word for "black"is '*****". It means black only no other connotations but some blacks don't take that well.

I wore a lot of black even before I became a widow and I have 3, partially white, cats.

 

Die schwartz. Pick another language not commonly understood where you live.

is it non political, a word of disrespect however used, should it be banished?

Other versions of the word have been banished so why not this one? The spanish version is now banned. People of color is a re-ordering of "colored people" but the latter is offensive and the former is not. You will never be politically correct because the goal posts are constantly moving.

 

What about blackjack? Is that racist too?

 

Black Widow, what's the politically correct term now?

Blacktop
Blackboard

What about The Whitehouse?
Is that racist to call a big white building a Whitehouse?

 

Most everyone today are thin skinned wussies

They get their little feelings hurt by all the evil guys on the right but when the left does it, they stay quiet like good little lap dogs

 

Why give up words like Gay of Black just because someone is touchy? They need to get over it.

 

It doesn't matter what you say, how you say it, or what your intentions are. All that matters is whether someone else feels badly about what you said.

I did some computer based training at work yesterday. It's a new module titled "Respect in the Workplace". It's literally teaching that it doesn't matter what you say, what the context is, or what your intent is. If someone is offended by what you said, for any reason, you're at fault and "subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination".

 

It is a word. It has no power but what it is given.

 

Cooper, CBL's at Walmart? Sounds like something they would make me watch.

Of course I get a pass with all my coworkers and bosses as I am a "****** lover" who not only married but cared for a disabled black man for 30 years. Some of them didn't believe me until I showed them a picture of him I keep on my cell phone.

If, big if, I remarry I don't care about race. A Latino guy at work flirts with me but he is not a born again Christian so that's a no go. But if I meet a nice saved guy of any race who likes cats who knows?

 

Cooper, CBL's at Walmart? Sounds like something they would make me watch.

A large northeast supermarket chain.

 

Yeah we have some diversity disability thing that dropped. I have mental illness and brain damage, I was married to a profoundly disabled man. I already know that but will have to complete the training.

 

We have banned certain words from product descriptions where I work. The Spanish version of black is an obvious one. Can’t have customers getting upset at what they read on a receipt and suing the company. But they also ban us from using Xmas for similar reasons.

 

But they also ban us from using Xmas for similar reasons.

It's spelled Christmas, just sayin'.