"African American"

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Quote by: ruksak Wasn't it certain black civil rights idiots that first coined and suggested the term "African American"? As well, I know have heard these same "civil rights" leaders complain when white folks refer to blacks as blacks.

Clarence Thomas was an nominee for the Supreme court when he attracted the ire of these so called civil right black leaders in 1991.
The truth was that he was being attacked for his conservatism regardless of his color. Black leaders only support liberal blacks !

From wikipedia:

"On July 2, 1991 President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall who had recently announced his retirement.[6] Marshall had been the only African American justice on the court. The selection of Thomas preserved the existing racial balance of the court, but it was seen as likely to move the ideological balance to the right.

American Bar Association's (ABA) rating for Judge Thomas was split between "qualified" and "not qualified."

Organizations including the NAACP, the Urban League and the National Organization for Women opposed the appointment based on Thomas's criticism of affirmative action and suspicions that Thomas might not be a supporter of the Supreme Court judgment in Roe v. Wade. Under questioning during confirmation hearings, Thomas repeatedly asserted that he had not formulated a position on the Roe decision.[7]

Some of the public statements of Thomas's opponents foreshadowed the confirmation fight that would occur. One such statement came from activist Florence Kennedy at a July 1991 conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Making reference to the failure of Robert Bork's nomination, she said of Thomas, "We're going to 'bork' him."[8]

The term has since become a part of the American political lexicon. Liberals have generally used the term to mean defeating conservative nominees for allegedly being "out of the judicial mainstream"; conservatives, conversely, use it to describe what they consider unscrupulous tactics to derail the nominations of nominees unacceptable to left-leaning interest groups."


Some very dirty tricks were played on Clarence, but he and his family survived and today he is sitting on the Supreme court - as effective conservative. Bork is not.

As for the white/black issue, I serve up this quote:

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:28

As a citizen of the Heavenly Kingdom - and not the earthly one - we are called to be color blind and culture blind, to say nothing of our sex.