Not to take away from the black/white jersey, but I had a team wearing orange jerseys for the first time I can ever remember the other day. Surprising, as I've been doing this for almost a decade, but I couldn't think of another.

Anyway, any of you call orange anything but orange? Every other color I see gets a one-syllable color. Purple is "blue", burgundy is "red", yellow is "gold", chartreuse is, well, whatever it's close to (isn't that greenish?).

So, anyone ever change orange to anything else?

I call it red.

I call it "red."

Peace

+1

I say "orange" as close to one syllable as possible.

When I called in South Carolina, even "red" was two syllables for most of my partners, so I guess it shouldn't be that much trouble to say "orng"...

I suggested red to my partners as suggested above, but they didn't like it. No biggee, but good to see others thinking my way. :D

Don't tell me...the partner lives in Namby-Pamby Land, right?

political correctness to the extreme
 

A buddy of mine is from England, now lives here and married a woman from the United States. She is very politically correct.

First time he takes her to England to meet his friends and family, he introduces her to his best friend who happens to be black.

After chatting for a few minutes, she giggles and the friend asks what's funny?

She says, "Oh, nothing, I have just never heard an African-American with an English accent before."

He looks at her kind of funny and says.....



"I'm neither African or American.....I was born here in the UK!":eek:

Go Back 200,000 Years ...
 

Every single one of us was originally from what is now called Africa. All of us that were born in the United States are African American. My ancestors just happened to pass through Ireland before they came here. Others, unfortunatley, were forced to take a more direct route.

I'm fairly sure I just mash it into a single syllable.

I have had a player wearing yellow correct me when I called it gold.

"Yes, but that's two syllables."

It just shows how dumb people are and how they do not even realize that being Black and African-American are totally different things. One is a race classification, the other is a ethnicity. You could technically racially White and be African-American. Ask Charlize Theron who was born in South Africa but lives in L.A.. I do not know if she has citizenship in this country, but if she was she would be an African-American. Only people that do not know try to say something is wrong with calling someone "Black." :rolleyes:

Peace

I had a friend that immigrated from Jamaica. He really didn't like being called African-American.

Because he is not. I grew up with a Nigerian family and they were not African-Americans in the truest form of the term. I also know Black people from Trinidad and Jamaica and other island countries.

I was in South Africa this summer and I met a lot of Africans that were not Black. And many of them looked just like people in this country but had origins from other countries, but grew up and lived in South Africa all their life. And I guess I also get a little tired of "We were born in America" talk. No crap, but that does not take away from our heritage or where our ancestry comes from and people wanting to claim that.

Peace

Agreed. I grew up in an area where "heritage" wasn't celebrated much. But when I went to college, in a small Dutch town in NW Iowa, I got a taste of what it's like for people to celebrate their heritage.

If I never see another tulip again....

+1 Billy