I doubt this will piss anyone off due to the obvious nature of the complaint, but just in case: I don’t care. Recently, during my extravagant escapades over the tubes of the Internet, I’ve seen a number of articles, news reports, etc., all claiming racism and racially insensitive comments. In case you haven’t been on this magical plae called the Internet lately though, I’ll present the evidence - some of it in YouTube form!

First, “Black Hole is a Racist Term.” To truly grasp the stupidity of this fiasco though, you have to see the news story on it, which makes everyone in it look like an idiot, and secured the reporter’s place in mediocrity.

Second, we have the infamous “Pool’s Closed” fiasco, which has spread much like herpes via loved ones who think you should know about it. Just check out the news story, and another YouTube video!

Look, I’m no fan of racism, but this is getting retarded. We can’t possibly become so politically correct that using the terms “black” or “white” innocuously will be considered insensitive. If anything, I vote we should be more insensitive, in all forms of the word. If two of us are different, it should be a joking matter. In the other sense of the word, you shouldn’t start screaming “OMG RACISM” at the first sign of a black man in a poster just because you don’t get the joke. Sensitivity camps and politically correct language that is longer than the term replaced aren’t solutions (”Caucasian.” Really? Just call me “white.”)

To keep this on the lighter side though, I’m going to quote Maddox, for the ultimate reason to use the word “black” instead of “African American”:

First of all, the label “African American” is the dumbest, most persistently used phrase in our vernacular. Every time you call someone an “African American,” you’re making at least two assumptions about the person:

1. That the person is an American. For example, if you saw this guy walking along on a street, you would probably think:

…which is fine, except for one small detail: this man is British, which makes you a presumptuous cock.

2. That the person is African (because it’s inconceivable that black people could come from Haiti, India, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Australia, or Jamaica). Nevermind that; BLACK PEOPLE ONLY COME FROM AFRICA.

So, thoughts? Oh, and since my ancestors weren’t actually from the Caucasus region, I prefer to be called “Danish-German-maybe-Irish-because-his-ancestors-got-around-American.”