Reply To: ‘The black guy’ – offensive or not?

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Nakena
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I don’t necessarily feel that it is offensive to use someone’s race as an identifier, but you could just as easily say, the guy with the dreds, or the guy with the green pants and brown shoes. So where you live, that is frowned upon and there’s a reason for that. People do not like being defined by their race as if that is all they are. You are first a person. So if you feel the need to point me out on the street, the choice is up to you. You can say, ‘that black lady’, or you can say ‘that tall slender lady with the brown hair and green eyes, the one standing at the entrance of the store there’. Great question.

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Name : Nakena, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Age : 28, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,