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12710403, i might be explaining this wrong, but iirc it's because...
Posted by Hitokiri, Tue Jan-27-15 12:14 PM
"Person/people of color" puts the fact that they're a person first. Before they're of color, they're people. May be a trivial difference to some, but we must recognize how we have over time been systematically dehumanized.
"Colored" erases their humanity. "Colored people" places the fact that they're human secondarily to the fact that they're folks of melanin. Then, as others have mentioned, there's the historical piece.
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