A little too long for a Twit.
It's interesting reading news from around the world. There is nothing that unusual about this news story. A guy gets denied entrance to a club and feels that it has to do with race since his white friend got in.
Bruno Bronn said he and his club were "far from racist" and has invited Aridi Amipi, 31, to join him for a drink to show him "the inside of the club rather than the outside".
Bronn, who was not at Bronx when the incident happened last week, said his doorman and manager, both of whom are black, took the decision to bar Amipi because he had arrived with an "attitude" and had given staff a hard time.
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Bronn denied his club had a race policy, saying he had a number of black and coloured regulars.
The article is from a South African website. What I thought was funny, was that in the US, it is considered racist to refer to someone as "coloured". People of colour is fine, even preferred, but to call someone coloured is seen as derogatory. The US has an interesting history of changing terms; coloured and Negro were considered proper at one point (NAACP, UNCF), but are currently offensive.
THE US is so PC conscious its almost to the point of ridiculousness. Did I say 'almost'?
ReplyDeleteBut, on the other hand, if we hadn't gone PC, I don't think we'd be where we are now, with a black man *YES, I said it...BLACK MAN* running for President and AHEAD, yet. There's a connection somewhere between using all that nicey-nice rhetoric and becoming more understanding of 'others' rights and feelings I think...perhaps only with the young who have to have their parents or teachers explain to them why some words are bad or hurtful and others are okay to use.
Has it gone too far? Oh hell yeah. Is it sad that the government has to step in and tell people what word is okay to use for a gay person, a black, a hispanic, an overweight, a disabled, a minority, any nationality other than an upperwardly-mobile White Male? Oh yeah. But then, that's the way it is in the good old U S of A. Is it any better in Australia? Do they have more couth there? I hope so.