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Originally Posted by Harry Paratestes
Then you'd be wrong. I saw two instances of what I would call suggestive, veiled threats against me by one poster, wes### or whatever he uses for a username. In both cases he suggested I go visit some blacks and mention the word Mulatto, that in doing so, I could expect an asswhuppin or beatdown(paraphrasing). I have not meant for any of what I said to be derogatory. I'm just curious why persons of mixed ancestry betw black and white 99 times out of 100 always call themselves black. I also commended Obama for making it very clear he's mixed race. The factually correct term for a child of a white and a black is Mulatto.
Anyone who makes the statement that the term Mulatto was conjured up during the era of US slavery, and is used in a racist kind of way, hasn't done their homework. The term has been around since long before the US even existed. Don't believe me, try a dictionary.
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Your posts on this subject are very offensive. You seem to be ignoring what I have told you. If you were truly "curious" as you say, you might do yourself a favor by listening to (or rereading I should say) my replies to your "curiosities". In the interests of civility, I did not take the route the other poster did, but he is correct and you would get your snotbox rocked if you called the wrong person a mulatto. I do not need a dictionary, nor do I need to do any homework to learn about who I am as I have been living for 34 years now (praise God!)
From what I can tell, you may benefit from doing some homework about the word
mulatto
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Although this word is acceptable to some people in certain cultural contexts, other people in other cultural contexts may find it to be offensive and unacceptable.
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, very much like the word Negro
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Prior to the shift in the lexicon of American and worldwide classification of race and ethnicity in the late 1960s, the appellation was accepted as a normal neutral formal term both by those of African descent as well as non-African blacks. Now it is often considered an ethnic slur although the term is still used in some contexts for historical reasons such as in the name of the United Negro College Fund
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and slavery for that matter, as slavery is not exclusive to the United States.
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