In response to one posters demand for better spelling and proper use of punctuation and grammar, I thought I'd take the time to just make one little point.

Hyphen:  a punctuation mark - used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers.

It’s that part about "used especially to divide" that I wanted to focus on.  The use of the hyphen is to keep us divided!  The whole reason we are told that it is "impolite" to discuss politics and religion is because if we do...we might just figure out we have more in common then we ever thought.  We do have the elite to blame.  They are 'setting the agenda' for all of us... black... white... yellow... DEM... or REP...it doesn't really matter... As long as they can keep us divided, they win!

You mean the running dogs of capitalism, don't you?

I think grammar nazi and think no soup for you  remembering that Seinfeld episode and laugh when one is so particular about grammar on a forum that is for enjoyment

and every other type of hyphenated American out there. Our devisiveness is becoming ingrained in our very language, and the hate mongers like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc are the ones actually encouraging it. Not to mention all the assholes on the "white" side of the equation who relish it as well.

Equality is probably nothing more than a pipe dream as long as the leadership of both "sides" continue to point out our differences instead of what we have in common.

I blame alot on Al Sharpton but not the term African American.  Remember it was the US that failed to recognize blacks as equal citizen and insisit of keeping seperate identification.  First freedmen, then Colored, then Negro and then people statred to say say every ethnic group have a heritage like Irish and Italian, let also take an heritage.

Like I said before, we can all start by calling ourselves Americans first and stop keeping racial statistics for starters.  I refuse to mark the "race" box for anything, really got the DMV in a tizzy LOL

I do blame him and his ilk for embracing the term. I also blame "White America" for shoving it down our throats as well. I don't know what it is about label that seems to assuage "white guilt", but the "feel good" do gooder crowd does more to harm the black community than a thousand David Dukes.

Who failed to insisit that we be called AMericans and accepting a seperate identification other than American on their terms - which is African American on their terms
Now you I insist on being called an American but for the people who need to self identify themselves or insist on identifying people as different.  Just think, I am not sure but I bet that Asian American came from a response from people being referred as Oriental.  Which makes everyone else Occidental.  Such stupidity.

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Like I really give a flying fuck.

Yes, you are correct. Some fuckwad, (probably white) decided that oriental was offensive. I am probably more accurately defined as an "ABC", American Born Chinese, which beats the hell out of a "UFO", Ugly Fucking Oriental. lol

Shelling out the money we do in order to fuck some of the greatest hookers that ever lived.

If your mother is from Liberia there is a good chance her ancestors were American slaves since Liberia was founded for American slaves.  The capital city of Monrovia was named after James Monroe but I am sure you know that.  My question is this: Would your mother be an American-African-American or would she be an African-American-African-American? If she were a stutterer would she be an Af Af Af Af Af,-Am Am Am Am; Um, strike that last question.

I'll buy that but I don't think that was the point of the OP.

Yea I had grasped the gist of that and just like an excuse to say no soup for you being a huge Seinfeld fan

Yes she was a descendent of the ex-slaves who settled there in the 1820's and I argue that she not anymore African than Dutch settlers in South Africa.

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More specifically...the Bilderberg Group.

Thank you Gambler as that is exactly the reason for the thread.  IMO the hyphens divide us on a daily basis.  And IMO opinion that is exactly what they were intended to do.  Divide and conquer.  To keep us fighting with ourselves instead of fighting for the benefit of all.

I agree wizard that it is all such stupidity!

It all comes down to a simple hyphen.  O well, problem solved.  Let's just get rid of hyphens and we're good to go.  

What an oversimplifying crock of shit.  Yes, I know it was anecdotal in nature (or was it?), but still very much a crock of shit.  Back to the drawing board with this theory.