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Title: Obama Signs Bill Banning Government Use of ‘Negro,’ ‘Oriental’
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... s-bill-banning-negro-oriental/
Published: May 23, 2016
Author: Jerome Hudson
Post Date: 2016-05-23 08:46:42 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 8237
Comments: 46
President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday banning the federal government from using the terms “Negro” and “Oriental,” making the official terms African-American and Asian-American. The measure, H.R.4238, was an amendment to the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities. The legislation passed unanimously in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate earlier this year. The law also updates the terms the U.S. federal government uses to describe minorities. American Indians will now be referred to as Native Americans, while, according to the law’s language, a “Spanish speaking individual of Spanish descent” will be referred to as Hispanic. “Many Americans may not be aware that the word ‘Oriental’ is derogatory,” said Rep. Grace Meng of New York and one of the bill’s original sponsors. “But it is an insulting term that needed to be removed from the books, and I am extremely pleased that my legislation to do that is now the law of the land.” “The term ‘Oriental’ has no place in federal law and at long last this insulting and outdated term will be gone for good,” said Rep. Meng. Rep. Meng pushed through similar legislation in 2009, while working in the New York state legislature. A bill mirroring the law Obama signed Friday is being backed by Washington State Senator Pramila Jayapal. Last month, the Library of Congress began revising its official use of terms like “illegal alien” and “alien” on its subject headings after a group of college activists and the American Library Association protested the agency’s use of those phrases. “Our country is a rich tapestry of cultural backgrounds, and Americans of all backgrounds deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” said California Republican Rep. Ed Royce, an original cosponsor of the bill. 
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
I guess that makes me European-American but in reality im just an American!!! If you want to be hyphenated how about just go back to were you are hyphenated from and leave America a better place! This is how they split America by separating America by class. That way you can pit two or more classes against each other and pull out the minority clause to protect one over the other!
The "they" who did the hard splitting of America were those who decided that black people could be held in a permanent state of slavery and then - once freed from slavery - could be forcibly held in legal subjection and segregated out. Our entire history of fraught race relations stems from those evils.
OMG is that all you are ever going to say? Nearly 300 years ago to become a new nations compromises had to be made and yes black people got thrown under the bus to make it happen. It took awhile but black people got their rights and what do they do with those rights, bitch and moan? I have had it if you don't want to be apart of western society get the fuck out and see the real world of Africa and then you can count your blessing in America!!!!!!!
Hard, dog-fang-and-fire-hose-enforced segregation was the law of the land in my lifetime. Blacks and whites who married were persecuted by the government when I was in middle school. Today, economic segregation is the rule across America. As far as your "Get the fuck out", who the fuck are YOU to be telling anybody to get out? Ever served in uniform, son? Every been in combat for this nation you're so ready to act as self-appointed gatekeeper for, boy? Until you have, you have no standing to be talking down to me. I fought for this country, and THEREFORE I have the FULL RIGHT of a FULL CITIZEN to exercise my free speech and make the points I make. And if you don't like it, tough titty. It's a free country. You're going to hear lots of things you don't like, and you can mewl and puke like a pussy all you want, but nobody gives a shit that you don't like it. You're going to take it, your fellow citizens are not going to shut up. This is America and people are going to say what they think. If you can't handle the truth, then leave.
Absolutely untrue. When blacks are poor in America it's because they are content to live on welfare and food stamps in public housing because they are too lazy to get out of bed to show up at middle-class or upper-class AA jobs held open for them regardless of their lack of qualifications.
#30. To: Rufus T Firefly (#23)
Amen,amen,amen!
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#2. To: Justified (#1)
This is how they split America by separating America by class. That way you can pit two or more classes against each other and pull out the minority clause to protect one over the other!
#6. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
The "they" who did the hard splitting of America were those who decided that black people could be held in a permanent state of slavery and then - once freed from slavery - could be forcibly held in legal subjection and segregated out.
#7. To: Justified (#6)
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Nearly 300 years ago...
#17. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
Today, economic segregation is the rule across America.
#23. To: sneakypete, Vicomte13 (#17)
Today, economic segregation is the rule across America.
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