I have been called "Swiss cheese" here in Canada .Is this raciest ?

do we need to ban black in every language? As a word? Adjective?

I'm guessing these sweets are black? Look like this?


www.negrocafe.com/default_en.html - let's ban coffee too...

No, let's not ban coffee. Let's draw a line. And let that line be here:

I have a bottle of Pinot Noir here. Should I chuck it?

Black penis indeed, it's just the French promoting racial stereotypes.

only if the bottle's bigger than the white version

Yeh! People are generally racist, we are still a very much tribal species and it in human nature to be fearful of skrælinge or strangers. This has been going on since we started to bang rocks together, the monkeys in the other tree would steal our females and food and our recourses. This is the ground Zero of out aggression to members of the same species.
As I say we are tribal and it is a case of "our tribe Yeh! Your tribe Booo!" the rest is simply cosmetics.
A single stranger is made welcome, we will snigger at their strange customs and think their silly believes and weird views strange but all in all they will be left alone. However as more and more come into the tribe a critical mass will be reached and we will see the first stirrings of hatred, us and them, it is a pity but it seems that we are mentally not much more evolved then our distant ancestors, maybe we have even degenerated.
No amount of kumbayah singing and PC wishing it was not so will get us over this, at the end of the day we are the monkey´s with machine guns and typewriters.

No. It's not offensive to me. I'm not easily offended.

I'm arguing with your logic that just because it's a sweet you can call it something nasty. Following this line you could call a sweet 'F**kc**tn****rt**t bonbons' and that would be ok.

The logic is that you can call it that because people probably won't be offended by it. Simple.

As has been covered elsewhere in this thread, the word 'negro' has been slowly dropped from use elsewhere, so the fact that it persists in some languages and cultures can look suspect.

yes but it wasnt used in that context.

I think there is a difference between inventing something new like the grill and call it "Auschwitz" and the sweet that has been called "Mohrenkopf" or whatever for decades, if not centuries, before ideas like "affirmative action" and what-have-you were even thought of.

Of course it was. He was telling the story about his grandma...

And btw I still don't know what the word on the package of sweets in German was.

Im sure people have some knowledge of black history and that within that context it really is'nt acceptable to use certain degrading language.

oh please!!! do speak for yourself.

Good question. And what about 'island ape'?

I'm sure you have some knowledge of Irish history.

I've been called a Paddy before on many occasions. Is that Racist?

Can I bring to court any institutions or company's or bars which use the term "Paddys Day" when referring to March 17th?

So what do you say to a three year old white girl who says to the three year old Indian girl in playgroup " children with black faces cant have one of these"? Where does it start and where does it stop?

Are you seriously equating the discrimination between the Irsh and black people?

Just like you are comparing the name of some age old candy to racism?

I'm following your logic here, what little there is. You say that the use of the word Negro, meaning black, to describe a product that is black, is disgraceful, intolerant, and racist. So, it follows that use of a degrading term (ie. Paddy) in any context, even it's correct usage, should be frowned upon.

Anyway, what's the difference? Racism is Racism, Isn't it? What's the difference between oppression of people of African descent, and people of Celtic descent?

Or is it that you're just one of these knee-jerk PC muppets, who wants to bubble wrap the world in case some poor unfortunate bumps their toe?


And we equate one thing to another, not between.

In my lifetime america was segregated and although laws have passed if your black and poor you are still at a disadvantage.As in many countries dont you get it?