Comments on: Call Me an ABCD at Your Own Peril http://native-born.com/2008/10/23/call-me-an-abcd-at-your-own-peril/ Everybody Comes From Somewhere Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Elizabeth Kaylene http://native-born.com/2008/10/23/call-me-an-abcd-at-your-own-peril/comment-page-1/#comment-9418 Elizabeth Kaylene Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:51:26 +0000 http://native-born.com/?p=117#comment-9418 Taking the word "confused" out of ABCD is about as benign as black people referring to each other as the N word spelled with "as" at the end of it instead of "ers." <em>I</em> could never imagine using that word <em>because</em> of its negative connotation, especially when many people still use it as a derogatory slur. Just thinking about it makes me feel like a dirtbag. I wish we could stop referring to each other with generalizations, bad names, etc. Call me Liz, or "that girl with the blue shirt," instead of "that white girl." I dislike referring to other people as "that black guy" or anything like that. I like how you put it: "Call me <em>Faiqa</em>. Because that's who I am." Taking the word “confused” out of ABCD is about as benign as black people referring to each other as the N word spelled with “as” at the end of it instead of “ers.” I could never imagine using that word because of its negative connotation, especially when many people still use it as a derogatory slur. Just thinking about it makes me feel like a dirtbag.

I wish we could stop referring to each other with generalizations, bad names, etc. Call me Liz, or “that girl with the blue shirt,” instead of “that white girl.” I dislike referring to other people as “that black guy” or anything like that.

I like how you put it: “Call me Faiqa. Because that’s who I am.”

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