He sounds like he really gets it for the most part. That said I don't see the reason you can't call someone a: white man, black man, short, skinny, a scar on their right cheek, red head, chinese, really smart, overweight, walks with a limp... thay are ways people describe each other every day. As in remember that person we met at the bank last week, I can't remember his name and I shouldn't refer to his skin color so he was about 6 foot 2 inches tall and smiled a lot. My point, if you don't treat it as a big deal why can't you say he was a black man? The only reason not to is if you have racial bias against black people I guess. Are we then going to stop being able to point out that someone who is obese is an over weight person? Or someone who's only 4'9" is short (we shouldn't say that because he has Napolean complex right?". Maybe a person that is always exceptionally happy doesn't like being referred to like that so we should stop that to.
I guess I don't see why if you're a "black person" you shouldn't be called a "black person" again much in the same way if you're a "Happy person" you shouldn't be called a "happy person". It's who you are right? Morgan mentions that they should refer to each other by name and not "black man / white man". That's good because I doubt they started the interview with "hello black man", "hello white man"....
Saying someone is black man or white man to me is just like describing pretty much anything else about a persons physical appearance that would help to identify them (if say you don't have the luxery of knowing said persons name)....
I could be wrong I guess, but I honestly don't see what the big deal about that is. If I am wrong I apolagize ahead of time.
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