People of color.

[We Never Know]

There's something really wrong with a
society that makes rules against speaking the truth.

There's something really wrong with a
society of many races and of mixed races but only one race can be racist.

 

[Audie]

There's something really wrong with a
society of many races and of mixed races but only one race can be racist.

Being a claim obviously racist in content
and intent. And crazy - false.

 

[Watchmen]

I was having a conversation with a white person who referred to me and people like me as people/persons of color. I responded by referring to him and people like him as people/persons of color. He responded that people of color consist of only black or brown people, and I retorted white is just as much of a color as black, brown, or anything else and if he wanted to refer to black or brown people, he should use those words rather than something vague and incorrect. Upon further investigation I found out the term was originally coined by 17th century racists who wanted to distinguish white people from non whites, but fell out of favor shortly afterwords only to be brought back in the 1970’s by black and brown racists who wanted to separate white people from all the other races. Most of the people I know who use the term are not bigots or racists yet use the term coined by bigots and racists. Are these people just parroting something they’ve heard someone else use without thinking what these words actually mean? Or something else? Your thoughts?

Was this the first time you’d heard the phrase “people of color”?

 

[Audie]

Was this the first time you’d heard the phrase “people of color”?

Some of us don't like to be called names, whether
minority, person of colour, or any other not of our choosing.

 

[Watchmen]

Some of us don't like to be called names, whether
minority, person of colour, or any other not of our choosing.

That’s true. And totally irrelevant to my question. I’m just trying to better understand the context and am not defending the person who used the phrase.

 

[Kfox]

Was this the first time you’d heard the phrase “people of color”?

No; I've heard the term countless times and have always had a problem with it's use. Why do you ask?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I was having a conversation with a white person who referred to me and people like me as people/persons of color. I responded by referring to him and people like him as people/persons of color. He responded that people of color consist of only black or brown people, and I retorted white is just as much of a color as black, brown, or anything else and if he wanted to refer to black or brown people, he should use those words rather than something vague and incorrect. Upon further investigation I found out the term was originally coined by 17th century racists who wanted to distinguish white people from non whites, but fell out of favor shortly afterwords only to be brought back in the 1970’s by black and brown racists who wanted to separate white people from all the other races. Most of the people I know who use the term are not bigots or racists yet use the term coined by bigots and racists. Are these people just parroting something they’ve heard someone else use without thinking what these words actually mean? Or something else? Your thoughts?

I can't stand that term. It's just another way of saying "colored", which is now somehow offensive and outdated. I don't care for any of the us vs. them racial garbage. I don't know why white people have to be singled out from the rest of humanity, as in white people and then everyone else. Plus, it just throws everyone else together as if we're a monolith. It needs to be thrown in the trash along with the cleaning product-sounding "Latinx".

 

[Audie]

I can't stand that term. It's just another way of saying "colored", which is now somehow offensive and outdated. I don't care for any of the us vs. them racial garbage. I don't know why white people have to be singled out from the rest of humanity, as in white people and then everyone else. Plus, it just throws everyone else together as if we're a monolith. It needs to be thrown in the trash along with the cleaning product-sounding "Latinx".

Winner frubal

 

[Kathryn]

This reminds me of when I had a discussion about race with my daughter, who was shocked to find out that her husband, who is half Panamanian and half Italian, iss considered by many people to be "white." His skin is quite dark and his hair is black, for the record.

 

[Audie]

This reminds me of when I had a discussion about race with my daughter, who was shocked to find out that her husband, who is half Panamanian and half Italian, iss considered by many people to be "white." His skin is quite dark and his hair is black, for the record.

It's all so,ridiculous including being shocked.

 

[Kathryn]

It's all so,ridiculous including being shocked.

LOL sorry you feel that way, I guess!

 

[InChrist]

I was having a conversation with a white person who referred to me and people like me as people/persons of color. I responded by referring to him and people like him as people/persons of color. He responded that people of color consist of only black or brown people, and I retorted white is just as much of a color as black, brown, or anything else and if he wanted to refer to black or brown people, he should use those words rather than something vague and incorrect. Upon further investigation I found out the term was originally coined by 17th century racists who wanted to distinguish white people from non whites, but fell out of favor shortly afterwords only to be brought back in the 1970’s by black and brown racists who wanted to separate white people from all the other races. Most of the people I know who use the term are not bigots or racists yet use the term coined by bigots and racists. Are these people just parroting something they’ve heard someone else use without thinking what these words actually mean? Or something else? Your thoughts?

My thoughts are in line with the biblical scriptures that there is only ONE race; the human race. Among the human race there are a variety of skin pigment colors.
Science verifies this…

Ambroise Wonkam, a medical geneticist at Johns Hopkins University and president of the African Society of Human Genetics. Race is often used as a proxy for genetic diversity. But “race cannot be used to capture diversity at all. Race doesn’t exist. There is only one race, the human race,” says Wonkam, who was not involved with the National Academies’ panel.

Why experts recommend ditching racial labels in genetic studies

Racial labels don’t explain biological and genetic diversity but do cause stigma. They belong “in the dustbin of history,” a panel of experts says.

www.sciencenews.org

 

[Kfox]

My thoughts are in line with the biblical scriptures that there is only ONE race; the human race. Among the human race there are a variety of skin pigment colors.
Science verifies this…

My question was concerning the people who use this term. Obviously their thoughts aren't in line with your interpretation of biblical scriptures.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I can't stand that term. It's just another way of saying "colored", which is now somehow offensive and outdated.

Colored is actually a very polite term. I use it myself.

Unless you think this excellent organization is racist..

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | History | Britannica

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their...

www.britannica.com

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Colored is actually a very polite term. I use it myself.

Unless you think this excellent organization is racist..

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | History | Britannica

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their...

www.britannica.com

It doesn't bother me. Technically, I'm a mulatto, which actually is not a slur at all, but is now considered "offensive", too. I guess I'm not allowed to have a specific term for my own background.

There is actually a rapper called Mulatto who changed it to Latto because of "racism"...against herself, I guess.

 

[InChrist]

My question was concerning the people who use this term. Obviously their thoughts aren't in line with your interpretation of biblical scriptures.

Okay, then people who use the term as in the example you gave in the OP, are using it incorrectly. Whereas, you used it properly, since all humans are people of color in one variation or another.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It doesn't bother me. Technically, I'm a mulatto, which actually is not a slur at all, but is now considered "offensive", too. I guess I'm not allowed to have a specific term for my own background.

There is actually a rapper called Mulatto who changed it to Latto because of "racism"...against herself, I guess.

I still like what Morgan Freeman says on the matter to just stop talking about race.

 

[We Never Know]

I still like what Morgan Freeman says on the matter to just stop talking about race.

But they won't.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I’ll bet you would claim the KKK are unfair to black people even though there is no such claim on their website, their mission statement or any of their literature that I’m aware of. I guess that’s a false claim too huh? Remember what I said about actions speaking louder than words?

Their original documentation included questions about supporting a white man's government and on the equality or otherwise of 'negroes'.

Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868

 

[Lyndon]

You have to wonder why a black man would be an apologist for the KKK, if he is even a black man as he claims