Is it appropriate for a White person to call a Black person --- Uncle Tom?

[Carl]

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trumad  (1000+ posts)        Tue Dec-06-11 08:37 AM
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Is it appropriate for a White person to call a Black person --- Uncle Tom?
 Edited on Tue Dec-06-11 08:37 AM by trumad
I ask because of this article about a Black student in South Carolina displaying a confederate flag in dorm room window.

Does this even merit an Uncle Tom designation?

To me it is a jaw dropping racist article on CNN.

Hey lookie here---we found a Black guy who loves the confederate flag and doesn't want to be called an African-American.

mho


 

baldguy  (1000+ posts)      Tue Dec-06-11 08:44 AM
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2. No, but "idiot" or "jackass" would be.

Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts)        Tue Dec-06-11 08:55 AM
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8. It is never appropriate for anyone to call someone that name
 

Bok_Tukalo (1000+ posts)        Tue Dec-06-11 08:55 AM
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9. It doesn't matter how much melanin floats around in your body
 ... "Uncle Tom" is a pejorative where race is central. When it is used, it is meant to be hostile, dismissive, and demeaning.

No, it is not appropriate

Interesting given what a Google search finds.

http://www.google.com/search?q=uncle+tom+cain+site%3Awww.democraticunderground.com&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=qdr:y

[Texacon]

It is never appropriate for one person to be able to use a term/word that another may not.  That is discrimination.

KC

[Aristotelian]

It is never appropriate for one person to be able to use a term/word that another may not.  That is discrimination.

Unless it's by a good liberal against a rethuglican.

/DUmmy Mode

[Gina]

It is never appropriate for one person to be able to use a term/word that another may not.  That is discrimination.

KC

Exactfriggintactly.

[Wineslob]

Nope, never heard that term used at the DUmp.................