Reply #121: OK I'll try again, without sarcasm this time. [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

Someone may try to say that because you use the word "black" instead of "African-American", it is disrespectful, as the color black is often used as a symbol of evil in our culture, and very few people have skin that's that dark anyways. This is a pretty common idea, as I don't think they would have started using "African-American" if they couldn't find anything wrong with the word "black". NOTE: I'm not actually accusing you of this disrespect. What I'm saying is, you should be careful of making this accusation, as you can see it's not very difficult for someone to make an unfair* accusation against you - a more commonly used accusation than "you put one thing next to another so you must have meant something by it" at that.

*I am not seriously accusing you of racism. The whole point is that an unfair accusation can easily be made.