A Modest Proposal
 

No.. not the pamphlet-based satire written by J. Swift.

You see, I've spent my life being called "white" and "caucasian" and I just really find those terms to be offensive and derogatory. I mean, my ancestors who may not have even owned slaves were referred to as "white" and sometimes "caucasian" or even - and most horribly - "cracker." My skin is not white, it is more of a pinkish color. True, neither my parents nor grandparents are from Europe, but somewhere down the line that's where I got my skin color, so I'd really appreciate being called a European-American or - if that is too long - a Eur-Am.

I am asking that the mods of this forum enforce their policy against racial slurs more fairly and extend their enforcement to the word "cracker." I understand that culture is a difficult thing to change, so I can be accepting of being called "white" or "caucasian." But really, since these words are so offensive to me, I'd really prefer to be called European-American. Too long have the racist African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native Americans, Eskimo-Americans, Indian-Americans, Hebrew-Americans, Arab-Americans, Indonesian-Americans, Polynesian-Americans and Phillipino -Americans labeled me as simply being white. I will stand for this racial profiling, stereotyping and bigotry no longer.

Thank you.

Kracka
if it aint white it aint right oOo:

nigga please!

Attention whore.. eek:

^ maple for president of earth rock:

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/niggapls.gif[/img]

sleeping:

Good thing everyone knows this is a joke happy:

But seriously, today I see the news about the Native American community flipping out because Outkast dressed up like an Indian for his performance at the Grammies. I mean, for fuck's sake. It's getting ridiculous.

I'm starting an anti-PC movement. I'll have a website up soon.

Re: A Modest Proposal
 

Strange...we just read that in class today.

Well, you've got one Anglo-Australian backing you, that's for damned sure! rock:

Like, seriously, Over here, we have a brand of Cheese called 'Coon', and some damn Aboriginal was trying to get it's name changed because it's "offensive" oOo: .
He's one of these guys even the Aboriginal community think is a wanker. and I'm inclined to agree.

where did the term Cracker orginate from ?

-Back in the early 1900 before 1910 in a small back water hick town in Florida called Rosewood a white women was killed. The whitemen blamed it on the Blacks in their shantys down the way. They turned crazy and started on a masscre of Black's. Hunting them down like dogs in the forest killing as many as they could. They cracked up . hence the term cracker.". The funny thing is the real murderer was the Husband who killed his wife. Hence you now know where the term kracker came from. rock:

crackers are white we are to rolleyes:

[quote="Short Hand":edf0b]where did the term Cracker orginate from ?

-Back in the early 1900 before 1910 in a small back water hick town in Florida called Rosewood a white women was killed. The whitemen blamed it on the Blacks in their shantys down the way. They turned crazy and started on a masscre of Black's. Hunting them down like dogs in the forest killing as many as they could. They cracked up . hence the term cracker.". The funny thing is the real murderer was the Husband who killed his wife. Hence you now know where the term kracker came from. rock:[/quote:edf0b]

I heard it a different way;

That the term cracker came from the CRACK of the whips that went upon the slaves.

I think Im a Eskimo, I live on ice cubes.

[quote=DonJuan]I heard it a different way;

That the term cracker came from the CRACK of the whips that went upon the slaves.[/quote:b0cc7]

Same thing I heard. I think it's time we start a movement of anti-PC.

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[quote=DonJuan]I heard it a different way;

That the term cracker came from the CRACK of the whips that went upon the slaves.[/quote:eff79]


meh. I always wonder why Rosewood is never talked aobut more in American history. quite the blood shed.

osewood Reborn recounts the Rosewood Florida massacre of 1923, when an alleged attack on a white woman became the excuse for six days of racial rioting, the destruction of this African American community, and the massacre of an unknown number of residents.

It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the end of the day vengeful whites had lynched a man they suspected of helping the attacker escape. Local lawmen did nothing to stop them. By the week's end, hundreds of armed white men had burned black homes to the ground and forced the inhabitants to flee for their lives, killing many of them. All their property was then taken over by whites.

Rosewood's fate was an open secret for six decades. The terrorized survivors were silent, and the public quickly forgot. But in 1992 two survivors of the massacre filed a claim against the state of Florida, and in 1994 the legislature finally awarded survivors and descendants $2 million – the only known case of reparations to black Americans in U.S. history.

Rosewood Reborn is a tale of violence, heroism, horror and yet hope, which connects living history with some of today's most pressing and controversial issues. The conflicts and contradictions in American society that it illustrates remain unresolved. The program is narrated by James Earl Jones, and uses participants' and witnesses' own voices to tell of the community's destruction, and the survivors' path-breaking struggle for justice.

Rosewood Reborn was funded by the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media and the Florida Humanities Council, with additional funding from Public Radio International.


my story was quite as good form my memory as it should be.

too bad no one dresses as John Wayne ventilated him with a Winchester repeater biggrin:

[quote="Short Hand":d54e0][quote=DonJuan][quote="Short Hand":d54e0]where did the term Cracker orginate from ?

-Back in the early 1900 before 1910 in a small back water hick town in Florida called Rosewood a white women was killed. The whitemen blamed it on the Blacks in their shantys down the way. They turned crazy and started on a masscre of Black's. Hunting them down like dogs in the forest killing as many as they could. They cracked up . hence the term cracker.". The funny thing is the real murderer was the Husband who killed his wife. Hence you now know where the term kracker came from. rock:[/quote]

I heard it a different way;

That the term cracker came from the CRACK of the whips that went upon the slaves.[/quote:d54e0]


meh. I always wonder why Rosewood is never talked aobut more in American history. quite the blood shed.[/quote:d54e0]

Actually, they made a movie about it called "Rosewood" back in '97 starring Ving Rhames and John Voigt. It was pretty good.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120036/"]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120036/[/url]

Well we can call them black, so why not white.

Hell...we should ban the words yankee and canuck too then...techically they are derotory terms to residents from that country.

This whole movement to combat PR is PR itself, isnt it?? oOo:

1000 posts, woot!! beer:

[quote="Short Hand":eb3c3] But in 1992 two survivors of the massacre filed a claim against the state of Florida, and in 1994 the legislature finally awarded survivors and descendants $2 million – the only known case of reparations to black Americans in U.S. history. [/quote:eb3c3]

I wonder if I can get reparations for Sherman burning down my great, great grandaddy's house? or for the 1000 acres the Reconstructionists stole from him? I'm sure that antebellum home would be worth alot today and that land now has alot of very expensive homes, etc on it.

Maybe we should pay the Cherokees since we took their land...of course then they would have to pay the Choctaw's, because the Cherokee's took it from them, And then the Choctaw's would have to pay the Creeks and the Creeks would have to pay the ...... oh heck, let's just take all the property in the US and liquidate it and divide it up so that every person has an equal share. Maybe that would finally get these communist bassfish to get off their high horse. ..... hmmm probably not. They'd just find something else to complain about. So in that case, let's just leave it the way it is.

Confederates.

Hoenstly...

Woot.. Colonel has joined the movement!

All i gots to say about the confederates is...

Give it up.

Oh ya... My Great Great Grandfather was Sherman (The Crazy Fool) - hehe, My Great Aunt was the one who donated his Saddle, Sword and other such belonging to the smithsonian.

Ahh.. this post even heralds the return of the Gay Blade!

But stay on topic. This is about fighting political correctness. And very soon (as soon as the domain name resolves on the networks) you can join the fight...


http://www.fightpoliticalcorrectness.com rock:

[quote="The Gay Blade!":69387]Yea, Gran Pappy's house is probably on the same level of signifigance as forced slavery and the deaths that resulted, along with the lynchings, the hangings. Yea. And that casino money sure helps ease some of the Native Americans pain.[/quote:69387]


my brother likes you


*passes note* "do you like him too? check box A for yes, B for no, or C only if he tosses salad" oOo:

Does joining the movement constitute making a sig related to it?

[quote="Captain Wilkins":2c853][quote=Noctis]Woot.. Colonel has joined the movement![/quote]
Does joining the movement constitute making a sig related to it?[/quote:2c853]

Nah, doesn't have to. I hope to have the website running soon. I have a friend at the local news station and he's going to push to have an "investigative report" run on how over-political correctness is causing all these different problems and tensions and if it goes through, he's going to include the website to demonstrate how fed up the public is rock:

EDIT:: The site is now live.. you can connect temporarily by going to

[url="http://209.61.242.188/nuke/html/index.php"]http://209.61.242.188/nuke/html/index.php[/url]

The domain fightpoliticalcorrectness.com should be resolved within 24 hours.

I'm with ya, Noctis! rock:

I wanna be called a Euro-Newf-Canadian. Think you could swing that?

Actually, drop the Euro part...it sounds like I like techno music.

I thought you did like techno music!? ;)

HAW!

I like techno music about as much as I like Vin Diesel.

hahahahaha!

Why do you have this Pathological hatred of Vin Diesel anyways?

I think it comes from him inspiring every 17-25 year old male to make their cars look like friggin spaceships. rolleyes:

He looks like a dumb musclehead, he sounds like a dumb musclehead...he is a dumb musclehead.

My fave part of SPR was when he got his ass sniped. Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up, Vin.

I could never stand his voice, sounds like a real dozy fucker. oOo:

You make a valid arguement. GG.

Meh, an anti PC movement will fail. Hell i've been running one since before i can remember. Perhaps since im the only member of my 1337 group it simply makes me look like a jack ass. That could explain alot, but frankly i grew tired of all this "excuse me could you not swear around my children" bullshit years and years ago. "Frankly mam, there gonna hear this shit at some point in there lives, i vote for right now." Considering your child will grow up to be a hoodlum, with no respect for anyone. I dont think me swearing is a huge concern seeing how the little thing cant even shit in a toilet you dumb bitch... God i hate that whore.

uh... yeah... go Eur-am's