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Buddy_Gilapagos
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"I don't quite get why "Person of Color" = OK but "Colored Person""
Tue Jan-27-15 11:48 AM by Buddy_Gilapagos

  

          

is no bueno. I guess the best explanation is historical context but from an objective standard they are hard to distinguish.

Y'all mad at Benedict Cumberbatch?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/benedict-cumberbatch-race-comments_n_6553900.html


Anyway,I swear when I was a kid Negro was still ok to say.

I could understand moving completely away from the "color" standard of classification that's why I kind of like African-American but if you sticking to the color scheme then it's hard to say there is a big difference between Colored Person, Person of Color or even Negro.

It always reminds me of that person that changes their name thinking i will make them a different person. I have a home girl that went from a mighty ethnic name like "Wazerah" to something white and plain like "Page". SMH. I digress though.


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I don't quite get why "Person of Color" = OK but "Colored Person" [View all] , Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Jan-27-15 11:40 AM
 
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no need to get it...just accept it and KIM.... why y'all always gotta tr...
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Who is "Y'all"?
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      LMAO
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      lol!! I get you mixed up with that white cat from Cali for some reason.....
Jan 27th 2015
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           Who?
Jan 27th 2015
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                My Dude, i don't be keeping up with y'all screen names like that.....
Jan 27th 2015
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In the US we don't like it
Jan 27th 2015
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We definitely don't either
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I get it...
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kinda crazy b/c it's still in the GD name of the NAACP. so it's easy to ...
Jan 27th 2015
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Wait...people got mad at what he said? Good lord, that's stupid.
Jan 27th 2015
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We use one, they use(d) the other
Jan 27th 2015
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Just waiting on that Doctor Strange movie
Jan 27th 2015
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it's an antiquated term you expect people
Jan 27th 2015
it's an antiquated term you expect people
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I think you're mostly right about those who use it...
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i think its understandable to expect a young person
Jan 27th 2015
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a lot of old Black people say non PC shit all the time...
Jan 27th 2015
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I guess. Maybe to put another way is why did it become antiquated...
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persons of color signs weren't on bathrooms
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      snowed in and bored out of my brains.
Jan 27th 2015
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           watch stuff
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pretty much. it
Jan 27th 2015
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i might be explaining this wrong, but iirc it's because...
Jan 27th 2015
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this is how I understood it as well
Jan 27th 2015
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African erases my Americaness......
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      America erased your Americanness back in 1619.
Jan 27th 2015
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The phrasing is just off
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It just sounds that way because of history and context.
Jan 27th 2015
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      history and context are of the utmost importance though.
Jan 27th 2015
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for a similar reason you don't refer to Ali as 'Cassius'.
Jan 27th 2015
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Who is we? And when did we do this?
Jan 27th 2015
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Us did it in the 60s.
Jan 27th 2015
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This is the key. 'person of color' isn't a term specifically talking
Jan 27th 2015
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people of color sounds just as stupid to me.
Jan 27th 2015
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anybody not using Black to describe my brethren and sistren gets the sid...
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      I use black or AA, I give side eye to anyone who says "Blacks"
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           lol!! yo, that 's'...it's crazy how just one letter just fcks up the who...
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                If you say "The Blacks" you might as well say N#######
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                     lolol
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I had a head of HR from Arizona use the term "Afro-American"
Jan 27th 2015
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when i hear People of Color i, i think not-white
Jan 27th 2015
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same.
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It all sucks monkey balls
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