WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army has dropped the term “Negro” from a policy document that called the word an acceptable alternative to “Black” or “African American.”
The term appeared in a lengthy document called Army Command Policy, covering personnel standards and policies. A section on equal opportunity policy defined “Black” or “African American” as “a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa,” adding that “terms such as ‘Haitian’ or ‘Negro’ can be used” also.
The Army issued a statement saying it removed the term “Negro” Thursday as soon as it realized it was in the document. It did not say when the term first appeared in the document, but it apparently was many years ago.
The Army offered an apology to anyone who was offended.
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Just the kind of bullshit that drives white voters to pull that R lever.
Will Democrats learn before they lose the state governments, the federal legislature, the White House, and the federal courts ALL to the GOP?
You can’t build a majority party relying only on a minority of voters.
And if you’re determined to woo that minority of voters by heaping shit on the heads of the majority every chance you get, you could have a problem.
Just saying.
“Just saying” what exactly. I am not getting your drift.
He likes the name “Washington Redskins”.
Values voter.
He is saying that opposition to governmental organizations fixing outdated racially insensitive terminology in bureaucratic rules and apologizing for not fixing it sooner is why white voters vote Republican, because apparently in his view all white people are racists who are offended by that type of thing. Furthermore, he is saying that if Democrats want to win those racist white voters they need to stop doing nice stuff for minorities, like fixing outdated racially insensitive terminology in bureaucratic rules, which is apparently the equivalent of heaping shit on white peoples heads.
Idiots don’t understand apologies do they? “The Army offered an apology to anyone who was offended.” No, you offer an apology for what was done, because justice and the right were offended. To limit your apology to those who are offended suggests that you are merely placating special pleaders. An apology is offered for what you have done, and it is given to everyone, whether they were offended, or whether they weren’t smart enough to know that offense was given.