Rep. Eli Crane used the derogatory phrase in describing his proposed amendment to a military bill. Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked that his words be stricken from the record.

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    1 year ago

    To be fair, if I heared someone say “colored people” I would not be at all surprised to later hear them say “retard” in the same setting.

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      An easy way to pick out racists in the modern day is if they just casually call black people “blacks.” It seems to be one of the words that, although it’s not used by non-racists, hasn’t been phased out by some of the less explicit racists yet in the way “colored people” has.

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        Yeah, dead giveaway, they saw “black people” and removed “people” in their head so the verbiage is bound to follow.