12-13-2019, 01:18 PM
(12-13-2019, 12:07 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: The historical context is that "well spoken" and "articulate" are terms that are attributed to black people, often by white people, when the white person has decided "this black person speaks like me. I appreciate that. They normally don't." It has been used this way for decades.
"Well spoken" and "articulate" are also compliments used by all races to describe people of all races. You can't just change the entire meaning of words because some people use them is a racist manner. And I am saying that Blomberg had zero racist intentions in mind when he used that comment about Booker. But now a large part of the black community has painted Bloomberg as a racists with no evidence at all.
Claiming every white person is racist because of a history of racism is no different from claiming every black person is a violent criminal based on the history of the violent criminal being so much higher among African Americans. You have to stop doing that. It is just wrong, and it creates more dissention between the races. It is possible for a white person to call a black person "well spoken" and not mean "well spoken for a black person". If that triggers black people then they just need to get over it. Look at the facts before jumping to conclusions. If Bloomberg had made this comment about a black person he just met then you may have some cause to be triggered, but it is just ridiculous when he is talking about a US Senator who graduated from Sanford. Your claim that is was "subconscious" is just something you made up in your head with no facts to back it up.
