Our Boy, Ancalagon, making a difference as a "community organizer"...

Apparently in Seattle, it is politically incorrect to use the word "citizen," because it might offend illegal aliens.

Yes this was used to judge whether some blacks were allowed into middle and upper class society.


By other blacks.

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

Paper bag parties are African-American social events at which only individuals with complexions at least as light as the color of a brown paper bag were admitted. The term also refers to larger issues of class and caste within the African-American population.

People who get offended by words are pussies. Little whinin' fuckin' snivelin' maggot pussies. But the people who bend over backward to coddle and "protect" those little pussies are even more pussy-ous pussies.

Interesting. I've never heard of the brown bag thing. Though I have heard blacks refer many times to skin color among blacks.

And how do you "lunch and learn" lunch? Where's the learning part? We have to eat before we know whats in it?

I'm guessing (though admittedly I've never done hard research) that 99.999 percent of the population assume "brown bag" means a fucking sack lunch. Give me a fucking break.

BTW I'm offended by "homeless." How about permanent dwelling impaired?
And "dead" makes me sad. How about "living impaired?"
"Sinner" seems so judgemental. How about "morally deficient?"

"Impaired" and "deficient" are also very offensive! !

Any public official wanting to remove the word "citizen" from the vocabulary should immediately be removed themselves and barred from ever holding any public office again.

Did I vote for these people? I fucking hope not.

Yep. I'm all for having a discussion about what the word means, who it includes, whether there are different yet compatible meanings. But without the word, there is no civic society.

Replaced "impaired" with "unconventional". Replace "deficient" with "creative."

So replace "homeless" with "unconventionally housed" and "dead" with "living unconventionally." "Sin" would be "creative ethics."

Of course, all of this shit is marketer-speak. When the government makes lying into official policy, it's time for that government to be dismantled, forcibly if necessary.

Wow, this is the first time I've heard of this.

It's also so unfortunate...I haven't experienced this in my lifetime, by my mom's told me of how lighter skinned men were treated as gods when she was in high school. And some of the women I've met in the Navy from the South have told me this mentality still persists in part t9 this day.

...but this in no way justfies banning this term. If people can't understand context, then fuck them.

The actual use of the test mostly took place in the South, with New Orleans being the epicenter. At one point to be a black business owner in NO you had to be High Yella (light skinned).

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

This is not just the South. Go pull up pictures of Vanessa Williams, Beyonce, Tyra Banks, Halle Berry, and Jada Pinkett Smith. How many would fail the paper bag test?

How many eyes and teeth black women celebrities can you name?

Interesting enough this isn't such an issue with black men. The thinking is that black means wild/feral/strong which are more acceptable traits in men than women.

"Citizen" and "resident" are not synonyms. A person can be neither, one or the other, or both.

Cue Muad et al. accusing Anc of racism for merely knowing this information...

Anc was probably banging a black chick and encountered the color coded chart in some white paper he found while researching it.

I'm going to fucking go to Seattle and wear a t-shirt that says "CITIZEN" front and back, bold fuckin' letters.

Fuck this cowardly, passive-aggressive social-engineering-through-language-manipulation bullshit.

I hear the Seattle public workers dictionary is going to have 20% fewer words in it this year!

Time to nuke Seattle, before the disease spreads further.

We're not all crazy.

True, but you've got Anc there.

Wasn't that Anc who dated Vandygoddess?

yup

They have a beef with each other?

Maybe Alphaman or Mewa being a New Yorker can answer that. I didn't know enough of either population to answer that.

Seems so.
It's almost like how europeans look at north americans-colonials or something. While we see them as twits.
Strangely, those born here seem to be exempt by third generation. Maybe it's just an immigration thing?

There also seems to be an odd thing around Jamaica. Folks will either be so obsessed as to affect an accent and patois if they aren't, or on rare occasion, fudge on a familial connection there.

I dunno. Like I said in the first paragraph, kinda like the white folks and their ethnic trips... I'm sure the Asians have their thing like it too.

Nature seems to support this. Black men with white women are far, far more common than the other way around.

In destroying any infection, some good tissue is always lost.

The Northwest will rise again!

Unless it's raining, and then the northwest will sleep in due to depression brought on by Seasonal Affective Disorder.

'Coz dats be how da Norfwess roll, yo.