Posted on 06/08/2020 6:52:26 PM PDT by Stravinsky
Theres 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 weve been accustomed to using the term people of color (POC) to describe many from around the world, theres 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, its 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 doesnt erase the identities of other people of color like Black and Indigenous people.
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So Colored people aren’t People of Color any more?
Oh, Gawd, Just kill me. Assholes.
Didnt the indigenous people of the Americas originate in Asia? If so, arent they colonizers too?
Bi-polar crackpot.
I prefer to use a bipod at the opportune moment.
That is their goal.
As a K-POP (”Kentuckian Person of Pallor”), I feel that my existence is being erased by this term.
Good, now I know to never accidentally say this word.
Let’s use the real term: ABWs
Anybody But Whites.
ABWs are all 100% good people, above reproach, safe from any criticism or accountability. (Note: If any ABWs engage in wrongthink, then place them in the category below).
Ws are the bad ones. Always wrong, under all circumstances, and owe ABWs forever more.
BARF
This is great news. POC has now Balkanized to Black, Indigenous and People of Color..
Divide and conquer yourselves!
Let’s settle it and just use the all inclusive word darkies.
“Clean and articulate” was good enough for Joe Biden so shouldn’t that be good enough for me?
We’re not supposed to mention that, ever.
It’s like they just popped up spontaneously, whole and entire...like mushrooms.
No fair. They left off the poor mistreated LGBQTX whatever and the monopods.
add DEMPOS to the dictionary
I became tired of trying to be PC and atarted using “darker- and lighter- hued” (Americans) people to accurately describe the situation. And I like it.
How about People Of Socialism
I got a bunch of terms but I can’t use any of them here
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