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Originally posted by zach
I don't like using either tbh. I go out of my way to not say it. I'd literally describe everything else about a person before I'd do that. My mom says "the black guy" to describe, and I go ape on her ass. "You don't say 'that white guy' do you?" And then she rolls her eyes at me.
And seeing as how I'm from Canada... African American isn't the correct term.
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Rep us Canadian, boo
And I agree. Like I said about the story at my job, they just kept describing the guy "Was he wearing a red shirt?", "He was tall or short?", etc... But it wasn't until they could not figure it out they used the last resort: "So... was it the black guy?"
I'm the same. I just feel like it sounds racist here (Canada) to use "black". Like someone said, it's very "racist-sounding", but there's no other words to use. Maybe "coloured"?