Political correctness in some places is just way too screwed up

Back in the old days in South Africa I was also sometimes called a rooinek (red neck) by Afrikaners who themselves are Caucasian-Africans originally of Dutch or French descent. Rooinek was a term used for any white person whose family had only lived in Africa for a generation or two and who still went red in the sun as compared to whites who had lived in Africa for much longer and whose DNA had adjusted so they are born with a suntan, kinda like people from southern Spain.

Now one of the comments I read in the above blog was from someone who had to write a paper about the anti-apartheid struggle and Nelson Mandela, and he points out that his teacher (in the US I should add) ardently encouraged him to change black to African-American to be more professional. WTF, when did Mandela and the other 45million black people of South Africa become African-American?

Geez, why is this so hard, I have white skin, I'm white, I don't get upset about that, it's what I am. A friend of mine from Sri Lanka has skin so dark the sun doesn't even reflect off him, and most African-Americans I've ever met have actually been chocolate colored, in fact one guy I knew in the UK used to call himself 'chocolate drop'. The black (or should I be PC and say Bantu) people of South Africa are mostly very dark skinned, it's rare to meet a chocolate colored South African unless they are of mixed race.

To finish this article off, can I just say all these labels are pretty f... stupid, and if 50 years of apartheid didn't already convince the world of that, can I just point out that skin color is like so unimportant genetically, in fact in a few years time it might even be possible to alter your genes and change color, wow imagine that.