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a sad day for indiannapolis colts fans. he was such a symbol and a great coach for this team over the last 7 years. the first african american coach to win the super bowl. he also has to take credit for developing great players such as peyton manning, marvin harrison, dallas clark, reggie wayne, edgerrine james, dwight freeney, and robert mathis. dungy always seemed to be laid back and always pushed his players to their limits. He was a consistent winner. He was a consistent person. the coaching profession is losing one of the classiest people ever to wear a headset. i respect his decision to spend more time with his family and is wish him the best of luck.

Black or African-American?

Good evening Yanling C. ,

It is very rare to see an honest and meaningful question on Yahoo. It is impossible to answer your question without knowing a little bit of black history. YANLING C., do you know President Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president of the United States on, January 16th, the same date/day Martin Luther King made that speech years before?

Most of my people were brought to the United States as slaves. To keep them slaves, the owners passed laws which prohibit reading, writing, or any other forms of education. Punishments for breaking these laws were nothing short of hanging or death. There were no laws against “owners” having sex with their slaves. The children, of these sexual relationships or forceful encounters, were sometimes taught to read and speak. They were given jobs as cooks, maids, coach drivers, horse trainers, and companions to white children. Some like Sandra Hemmings even accompanied President Thomas Jefferson to Europe. These privileged few because of skin color were called “House Negr0-s.”

After the Civil war, a few former slaves received a little education in negr0 only schools, but the color class line was there. There were very few jobs but the lighter skinned negr0es received better jobs. Some negr0es were so light they passed for white in order to get a job. The United States put a halt to that practice. They adopted the “one drop blood law”.

Most of the Clubs in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans would only hire light skinned women and band members. The Cotton Club, which catered to “whites only” was famous for its light skinned chorus girls. After WWII the trend continued, if you were “black step back”. Look at the picture of the musicians and read third paragraph of website below.

This color line of division within the negr0 community continued into the fifties (50’s). Most uppity negr0es wanted to be called “colored”. As a kid no one would ever call a negr0 “Black” without having to fight.

In the mid-sixties (60’s), things started to change. Negr0es were uniting and fighting against some of the unjust laws. Color became less of a factor….unite for the cause.

I was drafted in 1967. I was sent to Vietnam on December 67’. When I left, a negr0 was still called a negr0. I did not get much news in Vietnam. We did not have computers or telephones. It took ten (10) days to receive a letter from home. I was stationed deep in the Mekong Delta near the Cambodian border. In fact, I did not know Martin Luther King was shot and killed for ten days.

I was discharged in early 1969. I could not believe my ears!! Negr0es were now calling themselves “Black”. To make a long story short, the word “Black” finally united negr0es as a race of people. Finally in 1969, “I am Black and I am Proud” was the word/credit and the song by James Brown.

Believe it or not after this song the white man could no longer divide us by making us ashamed of our multicolor. We realized that we are all in the same boat together.

There are black people all over the world. But most, not all, of the blacks in America were brought here from Africa. In Africa we were classified as Ethiopian or Negroid. The word Negr0 refers to a race with brown or black skin pigmentation, dark eyes, wooly hair, and indigenous people of Africa south of the Sahara. This is the reason why some blacks prefer to be called African Americans. You, Yanling C., can call us either Black or African American. Martin Luther King would agree. We have come from slavery to president without destroying ourselves or our country.

As a kid of the fifties (50’s), Hollywood movies and cartoons depicted black negr0es with big rear-ends and big lips. We were taught and felt so ashamed. Today I have to laugh at white women and other races getting painful shots to enlarge their lips. I laugh when I hear they are receiving major operations to enlarge their rear-ins. My mother and father are gone now, but I am sure they are also laughing and proud of how far the so-called “Negr0” has come.

Thanks for your honest question, Yanling C. I hope I added to your knowledge on the subject. You and your family have a beautiful week. Peace, from Los Angeles.

Are African Americans poor swimmers?

yes you may be partly correct. not racist question. whenever it is an adult drowning many times the person is AA. But is that because of the low body fat (fat floats) or is because many AA did not have easy access to a pool or beach pool when they were gorwing up. maybe combination of both. I am going to google it because you know you'll never get a decent answer off this stupid reheated bboard YA.

here read this snippet.

One of the most unshakable remnants of that history is the myth that black kids simply don’t — and can’t — swim. To this day, parents in some black communities buy into the belief. This incongruous notion is based on a 1969 study called The Negro and Learning to Swim, which said that blacks were biologically less buoyant than whites because of higher density in their bones and body mass.

Even some individuals in the aquatics industry continue to give this theory credence, despite dozens of studies since that prove the premise false. Most coaches, however, laugh at the thought, saying it’s a study that needs to be challenged and discredited in the public dialogue.

“It’s a common stereotype among black people,” says Lee Pitts, founder of the Lee Pitts Swim School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which is geared toward teaching black kids how to swim. “So many people buy into that myth. The reality is that swimming ability has absolutely nothing to do with biological or anatomical differences between the racial groups.

“Blacks are more muscular people as adults,” continues Pitt, who is black. “That doesn’t mean that blacks can’t learn to swim well. If a black person says it, they start to listen. If a white person says it, it’s inflammatory. We need to start dismissing these stereotypes and give them no credence so they can slowly erode.”