Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > This post reminds me of the fact that during the 14 years of living > in the US, during which time we had several black friends and co- > workers, I never, not once, heard any of them referring to > themselves as "African-American". That PC expression is heard on > TV, in speeches and the like, but I have never met an ordinary > person who used it. Likewise I had a client who really didn't care what label others wanted to give him. In California people called him a Native American, in Oklahoma people called him an Indian, I called him George. He boarded his horse with us, his regular job was a stockbroker. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com