The way the left paints race onto everything, “colored” is probably more accurate than “of color”
Why is ‘People of Color’ acceptable (this era) but ‘Colored People’ is not?....................
Black comedian said once (paraphrasing)
You all,call us colored? You are the ones born pink, who tan brown, get sunburned red, turn blue with envy, green with jealousy, turn blue when you are cold, then turn gray when you are old. We are born black, live black, and die black- I’d say it’s you folks who are colored”
Gotta love how the story quotes someone from the NAACP, an organization with “colored” in its name.
"The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins."
So what is it then? Colored people offended by calling colored people "colored people?" And of course liberals who want to protest the latest trend of the day....
A French conductor decades back, touring with an orchestra, was going into a "coloreds only" bathroom in the South, when someone tried to stop him. His response (colored, of course):
"Mais, je suis rose."
Never met an actual "white" person. Even clinical albinos have a "color." And of course all "persons of color" have color. For having worked in our garden a lot, in the moment I am quite "tan."
I have always wondered why “people of color” is an acceptable term while “colored people” is an evil racial slur. They mean the same thing, and “colored people,” having fewer syllables, is easier to say.
How niggardly!
The use of that term is one reason I don’t give money to the NAACP; yes, I’m offended.
I’d rather give to the diverse and inclusive United Negro College Fund.
I gotta stop asking “how stupid can people get”... They are taking it as a challenge...
“People of Color” is currently en vogue.
If we’re supposed to know what words get us fired and which don’t, then someone must publish an official guide book which lists the words that get you fired. This guide must be online and updated hourly.
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I’m joking. Instead of a guide, how about not caring about words that are spoken but instead caring about actions?
Don’t ever let someone tell you that the left doesn’t have their own strict blasphemy code.
Sounds like six of one and a half dozen of the other....
Can you imagine living life occupied... no, CONSUMED by a perpetual drive to monitor words people use (or even the order in which they use them), periodically redefine them, feign offense or harm if they’re uttered, and to sound the alarm bells that an unpardonable act has thereby been committed? What a sad, pathetic, self-faux-victimized existence.
My dad who hadn’t been around black people until WWII usually referred to them as “colored guys”. I used to tease him about “What color were they?” It was a common term and no one was the least bit offended by it.
Now of course “colored people” will cost you your job, while “people of color” is perfectly fine.
We’ve become a nation of low-IQ sheeple.
My neighbors are a mixed couple: husband Ashkenazi Jewish and wife ethnically Chinese and converted to Judaism.
He’s a tall, athletic, good-looking, guy. She’s petite and very pretty. Both doctors.
They both get crap, saying he had “yellow fever”, where Asian girls are objectified.
No, he likes smart pretty women. The one he fell in love with and married happened to be Chinese. I’d posit that Asians tend to be more driven than the typical Anglo-American, and tend to watch their figure better, if anything.
They were saying it was really more common for Asian girls to have “white fever”, but apparently no one is allowed to say that. Asian girls tend to like tall, smart, manly, athletic guys who treat them well. There are a lot more white guys that fit that category than Asian guys in the USA.
In short, Asian girls “objectify” white guys no more or less than white guys are objectifying Asian girls, but in the modern era, racial complaints are only directed at white people.
This is no longer acceptable to the Left, both Black and white.:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.