Sorry, this is more important than shlongs at the moment.
It is particularly ridiculous to cite PC, political correctness, in a pejorative way. It is called for, because words and the way we use them are very large factors in deciding value structures, thought processes, and hmm translating all of our realities to other people, so we can understand one another. If you look at the last fifty years of philosophy, it is entirely word oriented.
To those who have a problem being called black because they are brown note that whites aren't actually white...
The Otherness of being black, due to white normativity is just an analytic existentialist account of the overlying powerstructure, that is in nature oppressive in unforeseen and rippling ways. And it will always be so in America, because it is the echoing of those who were once slaves, being set free, then having to work their way up the economic ladder, when the white owners have already taken their places as the absolutes, the rich, the elite, and the symbols of highest status in America. That is until the American dream is fully dismantled and our means of communication changes as it is through the internet, where we don't have to be constantly defined by color as with normal conversation.
If we all didn't care, blacks would still be called niggers, children would all be OK calling each other faggets in the elementry school recess, and you would just be just some dumb honkey bumpkin...but it's OK because I laugh about the pitfalls of stupidity. In the words of Frantz Fanon, I made up my mind to laugh myself to tears, but laughter had become impossible.
Words need to be fixated FOR POLITICS, so we know not only who we are talking about. This is probably due to the vast special interest groups that seek to be seen as having an equal measure of legitimacy in power struggles.When nobody cares, everyone is overlooked, except for those in power.
African is not synonmous with black, because not all African's are black and not all of blacks are Africans. Aborigines for instance.
Sorry. For the interlude.
