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To: janetjanet998

How come you can say “people of color” but not “colored people”?


5 posted on 04/07/2020 7:19:03 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

What’s the verdict on colourful people?


32 posted on 04/07/2020 7:35:36 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Kid Shelleen
How come you can say “people of color” but not “colored people”?

How come the NAACP isn't the NAAAA ?
40 posted on 04/07/2020 7:45:18 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yeah why do they call it a drive way and we park on it and they call it a parkway and we drive on it.


49 posted on 04/07/2020 8:04:56 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

In ten years ‘people of color’ will become a ‘bad phrase’ and a new term will be brought forward.


66 posted on 04/07/2020 8:30:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (COVID Community Vulnerability Map: https://covid19.jvion.com/ Disease: tinyurl.com/cvirusmap)
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To: Kid Shelleen
How come you can say “people of color” but not “colored people”?

How come if you say "colored people" they get all bent out of shape? But if you write a check to the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" they get all misty?

74 posted on 04/07/2020 10:53:05 AM PDT by LouAvul ("Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.")
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