CNN's African American Anchors

[D_Humper E Bogart]

I'm geninely surprised there are white SE Londoners, let alone more black newsreaders!

As long as they are there because they are good, not any of the PC bullshit.

 

[xrush_uncut]

Geez. Was just trying to point out something positive. Call people what you want, but a lot of my friends want to be called African American. For those that want to be called black or whatever else, insert your word.

As for me, I attended FAMU and lived in Paddyfoote Complex. That was fun.

 

[naughty]

Geez. Was just trying to point out something positive. Call people what you want, but a lot of my friends want to be called African American. For those that want to be called black or whatever else, insert your word.

As for me, I attended FAMU and lived in Paddyfoote Complex. That was fun.

Totally off topic I love your avatar .The puppy is precious.

 

[Kassokilleri2ff]

Way to de-rail a topic. You guys are pros, lol.

 

[rogue_mj]

My only post on this is that you need to research the African Diaspora. almost all darker toned individuals are of African decent. It's only ignorant people that argue the actual fact of this.

Avantgarde,

My only response to you is to reconsider your "facts".

The term African American is a historical reference often used for reverse-racist purposes.... and an incorrect one at that. The term was invented to create a sociological emotional unity amongst American negroid people to refer to their slave roots... and to continue the propagation of racism (albeit reverse) in America. Not all negroids come from Africa!!!!!
And not all Africans are negroid!!

I am a 6th generation African and I am CAUCASIAN....

We should all use the correct anthropometric terms of Negroid, Caucasian, Australoid and Mongoloid, and combinations of each....


We are of course all decendant from Homo sapiens, who originated in Africa!!! Research Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Austrolopithecus africanus etc.

We all belong to the HUMAN RACE... and should forget the emotive terms used in todays politically "correct" society... which in my humble opinion is actually politically INCORRECT most of the time.....

We are all racialist... not necessarily racists... and there is a difference...
Racialism is the [SIZE=-1]belief in the existence and significance of racial categories and [/SIZE]the inherent attraction and cohesiveness to one's own anthropometric type, whereas racism is the belief in a hierarchy between race groups.


We are all people .... and if we wish to refer to a specific racial characteristic for informational or conversational purposes, we should stick with the anthropologic terms such as negroid and caucasoid....etc. or simply use terms such as white, black, etc. without the negative emotional connotations associated with colour! i.e. say it as you see it....

I concur with your sentiments and statements HazelGod!!!

Love thy neighbour!!!!

A CAUCASIAN AFRICAN

 

[dhsdad]

I attended Virginia State University for a year and hated it.

Is VA State a HBCU? Did not know that.

 

[dhsdad]

I'm geninely surprised there are white SE Londoners, let alone more black newsreaders!

As long as they are there because they are good, not any of the PC bullshit.

A

what the fuck???

 

[naughty]

Is VA State a HBCU? Did not know that.

Absolutely. It is within the Land Grant category. It is one of the public HBCU's along with Florida A&M, NC A&T, Lincoln in Missouri, Prairie View, Delaware State, UMES, SouthCarolina State, Alcorn, Tuskegee, Tennessee State,Alabama A&M, Fort Valley,Kentucky State, Langston, UA Pine Bluffs, Southern A&M, WV State, UDC. They were begun in 1890 under the Morrill act granting separate but equal higher public education . However their idea of separate but equal was the industrial agricultural and technical component fashioned after BT Washington's model at Tuskegee. LIberal Arts were discouraged though through out the years the schools found ways of getting around the constrictions.

 

[D_Humper E Bogart]

A

what the fuck???

Hmmm, I meant if the News people are there because they are good, not because of that the colour of their skin. Sorry, I was a little off-topic.

And yes, Peckam rules..for gun crime, knife crime, hate crime... then again, I live near London's biggest mosque. BOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!

 

[frizzle]

Hmmm, I meant if the News people are there because they are good, not because of that the colour of their skin. Sorry, I was a little off-topic.

And yes, Peckam rules..for gun crime, knife crime, hate crime... then again, I live near London's biggest mosque. BOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!

I think you've got more chance of getting mugged then find a fiver in Peckham.

 

[AlteredEgo]

My only post on this is that you need to research the African Diaspora. almost all darker toned individuals are of African decent. It's only ignorant people that argue the actual fact of this.

Besides, i wouldn't say any person is black or white...people are all shades of tan.

I'm black. Someone in my ancestry was from Africa, but I can't name them. The oral history of my family goes back six generations to a slave named Mary. Ask me what state she was in. I can't tell you. Her uneducated, runaway children had no idea. I'm an American. My family has been here over 300 years. An African American comes from Africa. I come from here. Do you?

 

[naughty]

I'm black. Someone in my ancestry was from Africa, but I can't name them. The oral history of my family goes back six generations to a slave named Mary. Ask me what state she was in. I can't tell you. Her uneducated, runaway children had no idea. I'm an American. My family has been here over 300 years. An African American comes from Africa. I come from here. Do you?

Exactly. I think it is the extent to which the sense of heritage and continuity of most Colored,Negro, Afro American, Black, African Americans via the Middle Passage were lost, that cause much of the angst about who we are as a group. Many of the names above chronical not only how we have come to feel about ourselves, but the names that have been created by external entities to describe us. Ironically, many Black Americans who have travelled to "the motherland" have been surprised to realize that they are seen simply as Americans.