a friend sent her a link to. I'm just going to borrow one bit on the use of language:
...There are no “chest feeders”, there are breast feeding women. There are no “persons who give birth.” There are mothers. And black is black (I want my baby back) not “African-American” because Africa is not a race. (Black isn’t either, it’s a characteristic of several races, but you know what, if we are to call Americans with extreme tans something, black is fine. If we’re going to invent weird monikers, call them splendid people of enhanced tan, and whites melanoma-incurring-people of pallor. I don’t care. No one is white and no one is black, but you call people white, you call other people black. (Yellow is weird though. No one is even remotely yellow.)) And let’s be very clear on what “minorities” are, because women ain’t.
What I mean is don’t concede their bizarre corruption of language. They’re not speaking truth to power. They’re speaking terror to truth. Speak the truth as much as you can. Giving up your very language to them lets them in your thoughts and makes you feel dirtied and powerless. Which is what they want. No, it’s not Critical Race Theory, it’s racism in academic face.
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My father was definitely yellow when he was in the middle of liver failure. Then he was grey.
Humor is good for the soul. Bless you Phelps and your Dad.
Perhaps more correctly, Africa is not a nation, America is (or was). One cannot be Irish-American any more than one can be Nigerian-American. To be American is unique in the world. One can come, legally, to America, take the oath of citizenship and become an American. One cannot go to Italy or Ireland or Pakistan and become Italian or Irish or Pakistani.
If a person is proud of their family heritage, which everyone should be, one can be an American of Irish decent or of Italian decent.
I refer the curious to Teddy Roosevelt's comments on being American.
The joke was actually more morbid on the second reading than the first (without the context) He went through liver failure, turned yellow, turned grey, got a transplant, and then lived another 15 years before going through it all again. It was a good 15 years for him, and I'm glad to have had them.
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