What's my Line? Dept. Store Detective

What's my Line? Dept. Store Detective

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[ella22221]

It was unfortunate that the term colored was used, but it is a part of history. Negro, black, African American, Caucasion, honky, Europeon American, whatever, we are all just people. She was trying to describe an event with her own terms of reference. Who cares.

[UDIETHATWAY]

I believe "colored" WAS politically correct at this point in time....the contestant was using the term of the day. Today she most likely would have said that a woman had stolen the ring and left the other description out as the color of the woman is of no significance at all to the story.

[jimmysudar]

@spelvin214 i remember seeing a maury show years ago and maury referring to a canadian black as an african american. duh.

[RachelHurdWood4ever]

I felt Dorothy was asking ''Mrs Mc Avoy, can I have my arm back please?'' she almost pulled her over the panel table.

[GhostInTheShell29]

I've noticed where I live luckily pretty much no one uses African American anymore... Always thought it was the dumbest way to describe a race... Most black people in the world aren't Americans, and they could be removed from Africa by many many generations. I think if a description of the color of ones skin is necessary, just say black, brown, asian, white.. unless you say it with offense, there's no offense.

[loggats]

@filmfemmenoir it's you.

[loggats]

"coloured" was the preferred term back then

[hifijohn]

@UDIETHATWAY technically speaking, isnt everone colored, i dont remember seeing any transparent people walking around lately!

[TheBlueyedblond]

@spelvin214 Everyone is so damned hypersensitive today...blacks change their self-descriptive vernacular every generation. In 20 years it will be something other than African-American. "Colored" is in no way racist. 

[spelvin214]

Lost in all this discussion of race is that after she said the "colored woman" swallowed the real ring and put a fake one in its place, Dorothy said, "We know what happened next." ... Between that, and the woman blurting out her place of employment first crack out of the box, and not wanting to leave the stage at the end, the producers and director that night must have really been shaking their heads. But this is why we loved live television.

[spelvin214]

If this woman started working at the dept. store in 1897, she was probably born in the late 1870s. Give her a break! ... And if she did hold "colored people" in disdain, and was implying, "You know how THEY are" ... well, 64 years work as a store detective might do that to you! ... The term "African-American" is asinine. As someone here pointed out, John Daly, born in South Africa, was just as much an "African American" as anyone could be.

[YouAreSoRight]

@ella22221

Imagine how old she is now !