CMS principal apologizes after using the
term ‘colored folks’ in staff meeting
Charlotte Observer [NC],
by
Annie Ma
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/6/2020 10:52:00 PM
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools principal apologized for referring to people as “colored folks” during a staff meeting, according to a secretly recorded audio tape recently obtained by The Observer. During a follow-up staff meeting in August, Ardrey Kell High School principal David Switzer apologized for offending anyone with his remarks at the earlier meeting and said that he does not use racially insensitive language. A person in the second meeting recorded it. “I thought I said persons of color,” Switzer said in the recording. “That was my context. And so again, I apologize, I really do… I don’t say that ever.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2020 11:08:21 PM (No. 403315)
And "colored folks" is different from "people of color" exactly HOW?
So, so - sick of these racial grievance pukes. Can't say things any way but their particular "PC approved" phraseology or you have committed a thought crime.
I'm not intimidated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/6/2020 11:08:34 PM (No. 403316)
The Diversity Police have warned us that there is a huge difference between "Colored People" and "People of Color", one that may end your career if you slip up. I guess I will have to go draw this distinction for you with my pencils of color.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 5/6/2020 11:09:03 PM (No. 403317)
He'll never appease them. But really, who even says "colored folks"?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FLCracker 5/6/2020 11:14:34 PM (No. 403320)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
NAACP
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/6/2020 11:15:05 PM (No. 403321)
Millions of people out of work in the country. Thousands dying. And we don't know what the future holds. At least we know what some people worry about.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ginadee 5/6/2020 11:23:38 PM (No. 403330)
I have used the term "colored people" at times because growing up that's what people of color were called. They even referred to themselves as colored people. I go way back as I was born in 1939.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/6/2020 11:30:34 PM (No. 403333)
I prefer non-white superior beings.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 5/6/2020 11:42:11 PM (No. 403338)
Nicely down, #2. You made my day.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/6/2020 11:59:07 PM (No. 403345)
It's seems to be ok when Mooch says it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sciteach 5/7/2020 12:10:35 AM (No. 403351)
I think I will now call Blacks what Dr, King called himself; a Negro.
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Please put out a public notice of what politically correct language we are to use this year. "Colored people" was used a lot in the south, including by blacks.
So sick of this. Sixty years later and it's still "You don't like me cause I'm black" Back in the early seventies someone used that line in an argument. I said "I wouldn't like you if you were purple" and they laughed and we moved on.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/7/2020 1:36:07 AM (No. 403389)
Cough, cough...I misspoke. Does anyone believe that one when the demonrat party is known to only care about blacks for their vote so they can stab them in the back afterward?
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I was always taught that black and white are not colors. So why are blacks called "colored"?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 5/7/2020 5:22:45 AM (No. 403441)
I'm not sure this would make it onto the top ten list of things to worry about in my life.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
rytwng 5/7/2020 7:15:12 AM (No. 403499)
Everyone is colored folks, white, black , brown, yellow,etc.
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I suppose it’s better than other words that could be used, especially from Rap “music”.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/7/2020 7:57:42 AM (No. 403546)
Well, aren't they?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/7/2020 8:00:39 AM (No. 403550)
He's ultimate PC, he's talking about their HAIR COLOR...
Trannie Pink, Purple etc.
White folks Brown, Black, Blonde
Black folks beautiful ...well, Black
Chinese Yellow, or is that Black with a yellow tinge...can't tell except in the Sun...
...and don't forget Libs Hair, Dirt filled Dingy with mites, chiggers and fleas.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey 5/7/2020 8:07:24 AM (No. 403564)
What's the difference?? Persons of Color, versus Colored Persons??? And what is the law in SC regarding taping conversations? Does the taped person have to know?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
cold porridge 5/7/2020 10:37:08 AM (No. 403732)
In the past, the black community preferred to be called negro, then colored and African-American and then black. It has changed a lot and keeps changing. Some today prefer to be called African-American and some do not. How are the rest of the citizens to know who of that race wants to be called what? To that I have to say..."What difference at this point does it make?"...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
zoidberg 5/7/2020 10:43:22 AM (No. 403739)
"Colored folks" sounds more quaint than it does racist.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
jlw509 5/7/2020 11:37:59 AM (No. 403792)
Wypipo better be careful.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2020 2:54:45 PM (No. 404037)
#4 wins this one, for sure.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2020 3:02:45 PM (No. 404053)
I had a smart, and very pretty black female classmate in HS who once stood up and spoke very forcefully during a class discussion on racial terminology. She was quite adamant that she was "not black, this is black" as she pointed to her black patent leather purse, "I'm more brown, but I prefer 'colored' or 'negro' ". And she was fairly dark complexion, too. I always admired her, and she was very smart in class, too.
That was in the late 60s when the term "black" for negroes or colored poeple was just gaining traction. When I grew up in the south, "colored folks" was a common term, used by them, and by many whites, and considered a genteel term, a polite term. The low class, nasty, racist folks still used the "N word" fairly freely then. People wanted a more polite way to refer to negroes/colored people.....whatever.
Race baiters always look for ways to divide us, not bring us together.
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The silly appeaser bent over backward in the past, buying copies of a racial-awareness book for all school employees and setting up Diversity programs, so now, sufficiently empowered with hatred against white people, they're itching to burn him at the stake for a slip of the tongue, with one aggrieved flower saying she now is tormented by visions of Jim Crow. Might he have had the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in mind?