15 July—Consider the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Everybody knows what it stands for and does. So given what happened in the U.S. House of Representatives a couple of days ago, you’d have expected the unquestionably woke NAACP to have changed its name by now—like woke and otherwise politically correct and gutless schools and sports teams everywhere have been doing of late.

Because it seems that “colored people” is no longer an acceptable way to refer to people of color. Go figure, Jesus save us, and what the hell is wrong with America? And it’s clear that this country needs lots and lots more proctologists because there are so many assholes out of as well as in Congress who obviously need treatment.

On left-wing news this morning, Scott Simon warned listeners that a story on Congressman Eli Crane’s racist faux pas on the House floor would contain offensive language. Would Simon be uttering the dreaded N-word or George Carlin’s seven words you can’t say on television? Not at all. Because the offensive language was merely “colored people.”

Certainly language evolves with society and culture in definition, implication, and inference. But let’s try to be reasonable. Just because a segment of society decides—for whatever reasons—it wants to be called something else, is it really necessary for the rest of society to accommodate it?

Take Indians. They now insist on being called Native Americans because Columbus was a lousy navigator. But they’re not really indigenous, not at all native, having arrived in North America only about 15,000 years ago. (Of course, the poor opportunistic Native Americans also demand all manner of special perks because of their having been victimized by palefaces—even though Indians are known to have victimized palefaces as well as other Indians.)

Now take what we must now call people of color or African Americans, even though many more than would like to admit it have no roots in Africa. But they’ll alacritously accept reparations anyway. Kind of like Native Americans. A long time ago “nigger,” a variant of “negro,” a Romance language stem for “black,” wasn’t considered a racial slur. When “nigger” became pejorative, “colored people” and “Negroes” became the politically correct way of referring to people of other than white complexion and ethnicity. Ah, the good old days.

On the subject of white complexion, incidentally, most Caucasians don’t have roots in the Caucasus but are nevertheless forced to live with that designation, resulting from a bad call by German academics almost three centuries ago. Do we really care? “Call me anything as long as it’s not late to dinner,” as my father was fond of saying.

Back to black, then, I don’t recall when “Negroes” (always capitalized from earliest use) and “colored people” fell out of favor. But now even “black” is unacceptable unless it’s capitalized. The rationale behind that is totally sophistic nonsense, by the way.

Unfortunately, however, that’s the way of the inseparable politically correct worlds of media and politics. For instance, after Rep. Crane, an Arizona Republican, uttered his unutterable “colored people”—even after he disappointingly fell on his sword for it— Flake State Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff couldn’t wait to tell the world that “it was troubling to watch this roll off the tongue of a Congressman so easily” and then post on Twitter, “This kind of racist language has no place in the U.S. House of Representatives. Or anywhere else.” You tell ’em, Adam.

In defense of Adam Schiff (who probably talks about “schwartzers” to his friends and family), he’s desperately hoping and praying to slither into the Senate seat currently held by Dianne Feinstein and needs to have a proctologist examine his head in all events. Like just about all of his colleagues . . .