I grew up using "black", too. I won't use "African-American" because it is incorrect and I am a pedant; those who use the term mean to include Jamaican blacks and exclude South-African whites, but correct use of the term would imply otherwise.
Cutting the funding for maintaining the levees to pay for Iraq was inexcusable. What a clear case of ignoring "homeland defense"! I guess they didn't actually intend that to mean "protecting the people and property that are here". Bah!
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Date: 2005-08-31 07:53 pm (UTC)Cutting the funding for maintaining the levees to pay for Iraq was inexcusable. What a clear case of ignoring "homeland defense"! I guess they didn't actually intend that to mean "protecting the people and property that are here". Bah!