Political Correctness

The uncanny recent linguistic invention of "Political Correctness" dictates us to be vague in our daily conversations.

As the media also have subscribed to this wishy-washy style, factual incorrectness ensues.

Time and again we read about Barack Obama as "The first black president of the United States".
This incorrectness due to Political Correctness shows that journalists are still racists at heart.
Once there were "Negroes". In the course of Political Correctness development they turned first into "Colored People", then into "African Americans".
The word "Black" is still used, but in the case of Obama, this is simply wrong.
Being the child of an African father and an American mother, he is a Mulatto.
This, the only correct description of his race, has now become taboo.

If the press calls him a "black president", I must be allowed with equal justification, to call him a "white president"!

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