Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz. referred to Black people as "colored people" Thursday in floor debate over his proposed amendment to an annual defense policy bill, prompting a stern rebuke from the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Lawmakers were debating a series of GOP-backed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House aims to pass by the end of the week.
Fuck me, he’s young! I heard about this yesterday but assumed it was one of the ancient bigots that still reminisce about the good ol’ days of legal segregation
He is a young bigot that hopes to bring back legal segregation because he missed it the first time around.
Racism and bigotry pass down from the parents a lot of the time. Its use association is with Jim Crow which is why there are those upset about it. That said, there are those who want to change the cohort term every ten years to make themselves feel better, which I don’t agree with. In the 90s it was all the rage to use African American, but they stopped using that because not everyone from Africa is from the same ethnicity. Is an Egyptian American citizen also an African American? Is Dave Matthews an African American? Thus why that fell out of favor. They changed it to People of Color around 2000 and the usage has become the popular term by 2008.
2000? Bloom County from 1988: