I’m not sure why Jinx should end up owing you a Coke, it was monstro who said the same thing as you.
Yes, there’s a poster named Jinx.
tee hee!
I don’t know…If I were in Japan and I ran into a well traveled Japanese woman who claimed to have the perfect recipe for pancakes, I’d give her a listen. In fact, when I was in Florence, I visited a sushi restaurant with a white American chef with a few Japanese expatriates under him who he trained.
She’d probably ask you first. And it’s not like this woman had a great way of fixing sushi. She’d never made sushi in her life. She’d just been to a sushi restaurant. This then qualified her to lecture me on the subject of making sushi.
Scott Plaid:
Thanks for the warm welcome. I’m enjoying the heck out of this group.
Well, according to what gigi said a few posts before yours, Berry’s mother was perfectly well aware of why she identifies as African-American:
And since historically, whites were the ones who put so much effort into insisting that mixed-race people were non-white, we can hardly complain that the mixed-race people who now identify as non-white aren’t showing enough respect for their white heritage.
Nitpick: I think jrfranchi is confusing an acronym for “White Anglo(Saxon) Protestant” with the derogatory term “wop” (not “WAP”) formerly applied to southern Europeans or Latinos.
Non-nitpick: A mod has already called Scott on his non-GD language, but it’s kind of ironically amusing that somebody who’s offended by the use of the term “swarthy” to describe Italians apparently has no problem with using a phrase like “your thick skull” to a black person. Talk about your stereotyped “negative connotations”!
:dubious: I wasn’t offended by the term “swarthy.” No, I was annoyed with a person who thinks their experiences with Italians and hair color applies to whites as a group.
P.S. I( have heard a lot of derogative names and stereotypes re: racial groups, but I have never heard “thick-skulls” being applied to blacks before.
At least, once I realized you probably mean this non-literally, in which case it has been applied against just about every group under the sun. Ah well.
Really? It was a classic racist stereotype about Africans and African-Americans, used for centuries at least. Even the staunch abolitionist Julia Ward Howe wrote in the nineteenth century,
It was a widespread urban legend that blacks were therefore much less susceptible to head injuries than whites. And as recently as ten years ago, the same stereotype was still kicking around in racist rhetoric:
Nope, the stereotype of “thick-skulled Negroes” was used in a strictly literal sense, although AFAIK without any anatomical evidence to back up the notion that there was a significant racial correlation:
Having been called a WOP, I do know what I meant. WASP is the another acronym, but not the one I was thinking of. Your nitpick is annoying and wrong and shows a failure to comprehend the posts. Why did you bother?
Why would you also want to start this mess back up again. We already have it resolved with the people involved in the thread and we have moved on.
Jim
What is a WAP?
I don’t know and I don’t think I want to know.
And most importantly, why is it CAPITALIZED? 
From here, bolding mine–
So all this was about a typo from several days ago. :smack:
Oy Vei.
Sorry about the typo guys.
Jim