> --- Aristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Who cares about Selma's "sensibilities" when it
> comes to the word Black?
>
--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Aristo,
> I was not asking anyone to care. You can call people
> what you want. I was only talking about my own sense
> of squeamishness in calling someone black. Would you
> call someone in India, "khalia"? No unless you are
> Gabbar Singh in Sholay, about to shoot him.
>
Mario responds:
>
Selma,
You definitely need to shed the color-obsessed baggage
from your Indian experiences.
>
Would you give us a break with the inappropriate
analogies, please? Recently you cited labor
conditions in a totalitarian dictatorship like China
as if China were comparable to free countries like
India or the US, and now you cite "kalia", a
derogatory term in color-obsessed India, with the term
"black" which African-Americans proudly call
themselves in America.
>
No, I would not call anyone in India "kalia", which in
America would be equivalent to calling a black a
"nigger". However I would refer to African-Americans
whom I work with almost every day "blacks" without any
qualms, because they would prefer me to.
>
When you call an African-American a "black", it is not
a derogatory term painting them as inferior, but a
term for the group that they have proudly chosen for
themselves after being dissatisfied with previously
used terms like "negro" and "colored".
>
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