Is Robert the first Latino on BB?
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Justboredwbb4

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 04:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thought of something funny here

I am 100% Cracker-American :)

Woodpecke®

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Saltine, Graham, or Goldfish?

Justboredwbb4

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 04:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I am kind of salty, very dry and crunchy, or perhaps very stale.
:)

Seawall

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What kind of cracker does each houseguest remind you of?

Brotherman

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 06:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"African American" is a term of dignity, preferable to "Black" or "Negro", or "Colored." We rarely refer to Irish, Germans, or Italians born in the US as "White", and never refer to them as "Blanco" or "Uncolored." We should respect what groups want to call themselves and not be offensive.

Bastable

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 07:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am all for giving respect and calling someone what they like to be called, but when exactly was the convention during which every single American of African descent settled on "African-American"? The thought that an entire group has somehow agreed on a name is in itself somewhat dismissive of individuality, IMHO.

I have several "African-American" friends who, for reasons of mixed heritage (and other factors) prefer "black" just as Caucasians are generally called "white."

Katbee

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Call me Kathy...not Black Kathy...not African American Kathy...just Kathy...keep the number of syllables to a minimum.

On the subject of the amendment that says you have to have been born in the US to be president, I would like to see that changed as well. Not that I want to run for president. Using using myself as an example, my father was serving overseas in the military when I was born. So under that amendment, I can't run for president because I was born in Germany. That is despite the fact that I have never claimed to be a citizen of any other country except the good old US of A. Kind of makes you go hmmmmmmm.

Katbee

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 07:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Uh oh!!!!
I think I killed it!

Woodpecke®

Monday, September 15, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Arnold, Henry Kissinger, and Katbee all are disqualified. I would have voted for Katbee for sure. That sucks.

Kaili

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 06:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not all "African-Americans" consider themselves to be of African descent. I had a friend who hates that because his family is Haitian. He doesn't identify with Africa, he identifies his heritage with the Carribean.

You might as well say I'm European-American then because if you go back far enough, most of my relatives came from Europe. I just consider myself American- North American- because that's where I'm from. It's where I was raised and it's where I've always lived.

Crazydog

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 06:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Katbee, are you sure you would be disqualified for running for president? I thought that there was an exception for people who were born to American parents overseas. I thought the whole point of that clause in the Constitution was to prevent people who were not American citizens from birth from becoming President. As the child of American parents, you are an American citizen from birth. They are only trying to prevent naturalized Americans from becoming President. I might be wrong.

And there is talk about changing the law. Representatives John Conyers (D-Mich) and Darrel Issa (R-Calif) are trying to put together an amendment that allows foreign-born U.S. citizens (i.e. naturalized Americans) to be eligible to run for President. Ostensibly it looks like they are trying to make the Austrian-born Ahnold eligible, but I believe the real beneficiary is the Democratic party's rising star, the current governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, who is Canadian-born.

Justboredwbb4

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 06:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I really always thought that living in America meant you were American. Your ancestoral make-up (african, asian, irish, german,etc) is what differentiates what color skin, eyes, hair etc you have.
Therefore stating that you are African or Asian or German American (example) does not make sense to me.
I am mostly German and Irish. Have never seen either country. Live in America, pay tribute to my flag, and do not try to blow America
up.Therefore I am American! :)
Hope this message got across how I wanted it to. Hope it makes sense. I really don't care what people want to call thmeselves. This is America and we all have the right. :)