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Mix1 · Joined: 08 May 2007

On a trip to Mexico once, I remember seeing a snack in a convenience store called "Negrito", which basically means "little black boy" in Spanish. The logo actually had a smiling black boy on it.

Guessing the US PC crowd would have went nuts if that product were imported.

"Negro" (black, in Spanish) is not the same word as the English equivalent, and isn't even pronounced the same way.

edwardcatflap · Joined: 22 Mar 2009

No_hite_pls · Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:58 pm Post subject:

This is ridiculous, nobody should be fired for using the word negro.

Zackback · Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk

If a teacher announced that the UNCF helped them obtain their education and a student asked what the UNCF stood for could the teacher be allowed to tell them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Negro_College_Fund

Mix1 · Joined: 08 May 2007

andrewchon · Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 2:09 pm Post subject:

This reminds me of a nanny (from Central America somewhere) working in America, who got prosecuted by Janet Reno for "loving the child too much". (she kissed the baby's pecker, a common practice in the nanny's native land)
Thing to do (instead of firing the teacher) is to find the under-lying problem with the plaintiff. Frivolous complaint of this kind is usually made because there's something that can't be complaned about. e.g. why don't the damn latinos speaka da eenglish? How come I didn't make the football team? This braces make me look so dorkie. etc However, doing that will involve... parenting. Nobody wants to do that.

edwardcatflap · Joined: 22 Mar 2009

joelove · Joined: 12 May 2011

That's pretty bad. It's like "niggardly" and the trouble that word has caused on various occasions.

andrewchon · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 6:50 am Post subject:

Can I use 'Shaniqua' without the Thoughtpolice banging on my door?

Lunar Groove Gardener · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: 1987 Subaru

There once was a man from Nantucket,

Who taught comprehensive Spanish, omitting of course the word for black,

Because that seemed to be the way people wanted it,

This was largely due his colleague having been dismissed with prejudice for having taught the accepted terms for the whole spectrum of colors,

So, he decided to err on the safe side...

And that has made all the difference.

Zackback · Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk

Would it also be wrong to tell students what the letters of the NAACP stand for?

andrewchon · Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 12:51 am Post subject:

Well, considering that Sen. Rand Paul (T, KY) got lambasted for reminding the students of Howard University that NAACP was set up by Republicans, you'd be pilloried for insulting their intelligence, too.