Right, Lohan was mentally stopping herself from using the n-word, that makes sense.
For God’s sake, she meant no offence and I’m sure none was taken, except of course by the thought police on this board.
Having every word you speak scrutinized and criticized in every media outlet by millions of people since your vulnerable adolescent years will probably have that effect on some folks after a while. I’d find it stressful, I know that.
Poor kid. She probably just wanted to be Ariel from The Little Mermaid when she grew up. Then one day she woke up and realized that her career had cultivated a merciless army of several million internet stalkers all intent on viewing her genitals, and it’s all been downhill since then.
I had a co-worker that still used “darkie” in the '90s.
This is Lindsay Lohan we’re talking about here. I think the more important question is whether she thinks he’s adequite.
As I said in the other thread, I seriously do not think this is about Lohan being stupid or ignorant. I think this is her saying to herself, “I’ve been out of the spotlight for a little while. This ought to wind 'em up.”
She may be miles away from being an intellectual, but she knows exactly what she’s doing in terms of manipulating the media and keeping herself in the public eye.
Wow. How could anyone imply that LL is RACIST? She was PRAISING Obama being elected.
If she said “I am pissed off that a colored person was elected” THEN it would justify 3 pages of debating whether or not she is racist.
And for the record - black, colored and AA have been used pretty much interchangably for as long as I’ve been around (born 1980 in CT).
Here’s the problem as I see it. Upon first reading, I didn’t think she was saying that he’s the first black/African-American president, but that he is the first president of not-all-white-European ancestry.
The only term for that, as far as I am aware, is ‘person of colour’. And I only learned that because I have some friends who did Women’s Studies in undergrad. I can’t blame someone forgrasping for a way to express that idea without knowledge of how the term ‘person of colour’ should be used.
OMG, that’s funny, but her eulogy for Robert Altman was hilarious. I take back any reference I made to thoughts or portions of thoughts appearing in her mind before speaking. She is one dumb bunny.
Actually, your analysis of this bit is somewhat incorrect.
The negative aspect of “colored” is exactly what Poitier is trying to convey – he’s saying that he thinks of himself as simply and fully a man while his father, who’s older and has been conditioned by society to think take a back seat, thinks of himself as something less than fully a man – “a colored man.”
I’d be interested to know how you saw this any way other than that. I’m not sure that it was a racial slur but it’s fairly slathered with negativity, even for a son talking to his father.
Re: Lindsey Lohan, as an avowed supporter of Obama, perhaps she was simply unthinking, confused between “person of color” and “colored person,” or drunk. But not racist, I don’t think.
No they haven’t.
Now that I’ve heard the actual recording of what she said, I don’t know what she said. It was not understandable in the recording I heard.
My initial posting on this was harsh for a reason, though. I’m 50 and I remember the signs at the laundromat, the movie theater, the water fountains. They all said the same things: “For coloreds,” “Coloreds only,” “No coloreds.” I guess the racists of the time thought they were being polite by not using the n-word.
Although other posters seem to think it’s OK to use “colored,” for me it has a very negative connotation.
I see what you mean. I was just trying to say that you could substitute, “negro man” or “black man” or “African American man” for “colored man” and the meaning would be the same in the context of the scene.
I agree, I have made this same point on these boards several times. There is no racial term that some do not find offensive. I have one Black freind that hates being called “black” as she says she’s actually a nice mocha brown.
As long as we have the NAACP, “colored” can’t be too bad.
Yes and no. While blacks have historically (at least until Obama was elected - :p) been relegated to second class citizenship, his use of “colored” in that scene was exactly right for its time.
Additionally, the use of Black and African-American were used later as a signal of empowerment and black pride, so not exactly the same.
After reading about Earl Butz’s infamous comment in which “colored” was one of the least offensive parts, I must say that there are a lot worse things that Lohan could have said.
By what??? :eek: