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Originally Posted by UtahDan
You two are funny. I have heard people of color and people of mixed race use it many times. SU from the lily white northwest has no idea what is offensive or not to people of color. Race relations to him, just like the modern church, are something he only understands as an intellectual exercise but has little personal experience with.
I don't know where Waters really is on this because who knows whether he believes what he says from moment to moment. The fact is that neither of them have ever had anyone tell them that is an offensive word. Just one more chance to appear enlightened. If you have to try to convince people you are enlightened...never mind.
Do a google search for "mullato and offensive" and you will turn up several discussion threads with people who purport to be of mixed race saying that do not find it offensive. Since I default to not wanting to use words that I remotely think are offensive, I probably will choose another word in the future, but not because two guys who don't have the least idea whether it is or isn't say so.
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This is gibberish. I don't know what you're saying. Regardless, mulatto is like "negro," totally inappropriate. Who has called Obama that? I don't care what your google search turns up. Anyway, you're from lilly white northern Virginia, George Allen country, not DC. I venture I'm the only one here who's lived in DC for any appreciable time, except maybe Requiem. What you prove is that ceratin people live in a cocoon no matter where they are.