Poll of the Day > 'Colored babies' remark was 'slip of the tongue' claims Republican lawmaker

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https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article249830573.html

jfc the Republican party is a complete clusterfuck right now

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An Oklahoma state lawmaker has apologized after referring to colored babies during an abortion debate Tuesday.
Rep. Brad Boles, a Republican from Marlow, called the comment a slip of the tongue in a statement posted to Facebook Tuesday night.

I inadvertently used an offensive term during debate for a pro-life bill when suggesting abortion affects people of all races, the statement said. I apologized to several colleagues for this accidental slip of the tongue and made a public apology on the House floor.

He continued, I hope you know me and my heart well enough to agree I would never intentionally say anything to offend anyone, and that as a Christian I believe God created each of us in His image. While it was truly an accident, I deeply regret the unintentional harm it caused. Please accept my sincere apology.

Boles used the term while debating in favor of a bill that would outlaw abortions once a fetus had detectable cardiac activity better known as a fetal heartbeat bill, The Oklahoman reported.

In 2017, 862,000 babies were aborted. Twenty-eight percent of those babies were colored babies; 240,000 Black kids, 215,000 Hispanic kids, Boles said during the debate, according to the newspaper. These kids mattered and Im here to advocate for them as well.
Alicia Andrews, chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, condemned the comment.

As a Black woman who is old enough to be his mother, I am shocked that someone is using the term colored in 2021, she said, according to KFOR, adding, Colored is not part of your normal lexicon. If its not part of your normal lexicon, it doesnt just come out. So, it is part of who he is.
Boles took to the House floor Tuesday night to apologize after Andrews and the Oklahoma Democratic Party demanded a public apology.

Tamya Cox-Tour, executive director of the ACLU of Oklahoma, called on Boles to commit to engaging in conversations with experts about racial equity.
It is disgraceful that in 2021 we still have elected officials like Rep. Boles use racist rhetoric such as colored on the floor of the Peoples house, she said in a statement. Rep. Boles and his colleagues should not only commit to engaging in conversations about race equity work with the experts in our state, but also actively check their colleagues on problematic behavior.

House Bill 2441, which was being being debated when Boles made the comment, passed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives 80-19, KOKH reported.

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It's Baby of Colour

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In 2017, 862,000 babies were aborted. Twenty-eight percent of those babies were colored babies; 240,000 Black kids, 215,000 Hispanic kids

(240,000 + 215,000) / 862,000 = 0.28?

Stay in school, kids.

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adjl posted...

(240,000 + 215,000) / 862,000 = 0.28?

Stay in school, kids.

There are other Colours of Colour

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Lokarin posted...

There are other Colours of Colour

Do you paint with all the colours of the colour?

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I dont see what the controversy is I know some colored babies and theyre great, some of my favorite people in fact

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Lokarin posted...

It's Baby of Colour

tbh, the moronic PC term "person/people of color" easily lends itself to mistakes.... which is probably why they picked it.

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Ok?

It was a "slip of the tongue".

Shit happens. I referred non whites as colored people in a post a few weeks ago.

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"Poor babies" is the liberal term.

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What would have been an acceptable term to use?

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

What would have been an acceptable term to use?

Seasoned infants of ethnic culture

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babies of color

What's wrong with colored babies?

I remember my grandma using that and it was an acceptable alternative for decades.

NeoSioType posted...

What's wrong with colored babies?

use it in a sentence

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I imagine the colored babies then proceed to ruin the judges golf shoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCssEas6LE

Zeus posted...

tbh, the moronic PC term "person/people of color" easily lends itself to mistakes.... which is probably why they picked it.

Yes, Zeus. "Person of colour" was specifically chosen to trick people into using Civil Rights Era terminology - especially people who were born decades after such terminology was common - so they'd look bad. Congratulations for so brilliantly unmasking this grand conspiracy.

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Summary:
I accidentally revealed Im a racist.
if you know me, you know Im only a closet racist. I would never be a public racist on purpose

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I heard colored babies are just as smart and talented as white babies.

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adjl posted...

(240,000 + 215,000) / 862,000 = 0.28?

Stay in school, kids.

Hispanic includes some black

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Mead posted...

Seasoned infants of ethnic culture

Now I am wondering what the lowest age is one could be, to be considered to actually have a culture.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Now I am wondering what the lowest age is one could be, to be considered to actually have a culture.

I think babies typically start around 0

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Lokarin posted...

I think babies typically start around 0

At that point, the family has a culture and the baby might "belong to a culture" but does that mean it actually has a culture already?

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Far-Queue posted...

apologized after referring to colored babies during an abortion debate

If they aren't born yet they're "fetuses of color".

Far-Queue posted...

suggesting abortion affects people of all races

I think this might be the real issue. Things can only be described as effecting minorities disproportionately.

Far-Queue posted...

These kids mattered and Im here to advocate for them as well.

Evidently not to the parents. Which raises the question why he wants so many children of color raised by adults who don't want them.

Lokarin posted...

It's Baby of Colour

They can be called babies when they earn that birth certificate.

Mead posted...

use it in a sentence

This sounds like fun. Can I join?
An incident at the paint store resulted in some unusually colored babies.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

This sounds like fun. Can I join?
An incident at the paint store resulted in some unusually colored babies.

*unusually-colored babies

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Sarcasthma posted...

*unusually-colored babies

Either works there, actually. "Unusually-coloured" means the babies are of unusual colours, "unusually coloured" means the babies are more coloured than they would usually be.

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adjl posted...

Either works there, actually. "Unusually-coloured" means the babies are of unusual colours, "unusually coloured" means the babies are more coloured than they would usually be.

How would you say if if both conditions are met? I'm picturing babies with at least 3 colors and one of them is the expensive designer kind.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

How would you say if if both conditions are met? I'm picturing babies with at least 3 colors and one of them is the expensive designer kind.

I suppose then you would say that they are both unusually-coloured and unusually coloured, though at that point you would probably be better off using different wording to avoid confusion (particularly where the hyphen isn't necessarily going to be obvious in speech).

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adjl posted...

(particularly where the hyphen isn't necessarily going to be obvious in speech)

Wait, you guys use silent hyphens?

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perhaps we should just use whatever the babies names are

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Mead posted...

perhaps we should just use whatever the babies names are

Will that adequately convey how colorful they are?

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Will that adequately convey how colorful they are?

depending on the name, possibly

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I'm currently reading Kindred by Octavia Butler and it's made explicitly clear within the text that "colored" was an outdated and offensive term for black folks by the time this book was released, which was in 1979. So for anyone still debating or confused about that one, you're over 40 years out of touch. Get with it, man!

JigsawTDC posted...

it's made explicitly clear within the text that "colored" was an outdated and offensive

40 years later i don't think anyone remembers why it was offensive. Does the book happen to explain that?

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

40 years later i don't think anyone remembers why it was offensive. Does the book happen to explain that?

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean no one remembers why something is offensive. Don't project your ignorance onto others. Anyway, the book doesn't, but I think for any of us that paid attention in our high school U.S. history courses we remember that "colored" was what black folks were commonly referred to as by white folks during the Jim Crow era of segregation. Just look at images from the time with all the signs labeling "whites only" vs. "coloreds only" or "no coloreds". The phrase recalls the trauma of the era.

Here's an article from the BBC going more in depth for you:
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30999175

JigsawTDC posted...

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean no one remembers why something is offensive.

So if it was clear that it was in poor taste back in 1979 then my expectation is that people have stopped using it. 40 years later a whole generation, maybe two, had been born and entered adulthood without its usage being a prevalent social issue.

JigsawTDC posted...

I think for any of us that paid attention in our high school U.S. history courses

History was always my worst subject. I found the material hard to relate to. The general impression I came away with was that such matters were issues of the past and not relevant today.

JigsawTDC posted...

"colored" was what black folks were commonly referred to

I sense a pattern here. It seems that whatever they are called one decade becomes an offensive term the next decade. I wasn't alive when "colored" was in use but I recall at one point the correct term was black. Then that became offensive and the correct term was African American. Now that's an offensive term.

JigsawTDC posted...

The phrase recalls the trauma of the era.

Searching on Google informs me that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in the end of the Jim Crow era. So 3 or 4 generations of people have been born since then who have no memory of that. And again, since the term has fallen out of usage those generations wouldn't have exposure to it to know of the connotation associated with it.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

So if it was clear that it was in poor taste back in 1979 then my expectation is that people have stopped using it. 40 years later a whole generation, maybe two, had been born and entered adulthood without its usage being a prevalent social issue.

History was always my worst subject. I found the material hard to relate to. The general impression I came away with was that such matters were issues of the past and not relevant today.

I sense a pattern here. It seems that whatever they are called one decade becomes an offensive term the next decade. I wasn't alive when "colored" was in use but I recall at one point the correct term was black. Then that became offensive and the correct term was African American. Now that's an offensive term.

Searching on Google informs me that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in the end of the Jim Crow era. So 3 or 4 generations of people have been born since then who have no memory of that. And again, since the term has fallen out of usage those generations wouldn't have exposure to it to know of the connotation associated with it.

idk it just seems like you aren't paying attention really that closely.

Saying that someone is black isn't offensive. Calling a whole group of society 'the blacks' is. 'Colored people' has been offensive for my entire life, and I am turning 30 this year.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

'Colored people' has been offensive for my entire life, and I am turning 30 this year.

Using the 2019 US census 28.54% of the population are 55 and older. Your statement should be true for the majority of people alive today. My point is not how long it has been an offensive term. My point is how much exposure it has had as an offensive term given that it has not been commonly used in that time.

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