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So let me get this straight: a black guy mentions race = he is a racist?????

Posted - February 16, 2019

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  • 7280
    Until Ross Perot ran for president, the phrase "you people" was a simple description of a group of people.  Now it's a racist term. Silly people, we humans.


      February 16, 2019 10:20 PM MST
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  • 53526

      "You people" was a pejorative dating at least back to the 1970s; Perot ran for president in 1992.

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      February 16, 2019 10:26 PM MST
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  • 7280
    The references I found about 4 years ago when I had a reason to look it up implied that Perot made it obvious. 

    I frankly was unaware of it until someone accused me of using it as a racial comment about 6 years ago.

    I was raised Catholic---I was taught that all men were equal and that skin color and physiognomy were (what I would later learn to call) accidental forms that provided delightful differences in all us humans.

    And I still believe that was God's small extra gift to us humans that so few of us actually appreciate. This post was edited by tom jackson at February 17, 2019 5:32 PM MST
      February 16, 2019 10:31 PM MST
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