Posted on 06/08/2020 6:52:26 PM PDT by Stravinsky
There’s a long history behind the way people of color have been labeled. For centuries, we have been called discriminatory names. Over time, we started to reclaim so many words that were an attempt to alienate us and bring us down.
While we’ve been accustomed to using the term people of color (POC) to describe many from around the world, there’s an emerging term that has begun to gain momentum in an effort to be more inclusive and bring more individuals into the conversation.
The term BIPOC represents Black, Indigenous and People of Color. According to The BIPOC Project, it’s a way of building a collective community and “undoing Native invisibility, anti-Blackness, dismantling white supremacy and advancing racial justice.”
So why should we use BIPOC over POC? Using the term promotes the inclusion of all people of color who have also been mistreated, misrepresented and discriminated against for the color of their skin, their culture or their way of life. It unites marginalized communities together, uplifts their voices and highlights all multiracial backgrounds in a way that doesn’t erase the identities of other people of color like Black and Indigenous people.
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Uh yeah, no.
[if I was born here, am I not indigenous?]
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indigenous [inˈdijənəs] ADJECTIVE originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
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Ellen DeGeneres just got lambasted for using “people of color.”
How about ‘GOTCP’?
(Gentleman of the Colored Persuasion)
We’re all indigenous to somewhere.
That will go over as well as Latinx.
Lol! I don’t know about that one “BIPOC” sounds kind of racist to me. Example: “Honey, make sure to lock the car door, lot of BIPOC’s in the area.”
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Must be exhausting to live every single moment of life thinking about the color of your skin -- especially when most people are not thinking about it.
More like MYOPIC.
How is people of color any different than colored people?
Seems like a step backward.
I thought we were supposed to judge on the content of character and not on color of skin.
You mean like “cracker”?
If it’s not science or math it’s bullshit!
More intersectionality.
What a surprise.
How about humanoid? Or biped?
How about Corn POC?
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