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“Colored people” ? Is the owner 90 ?

"Colored People" = "People of Color" (the description often favored by liberals and, well, people of color)

Is there any linguistic difference, not counting hyper-sensitivity?

BTW, I'm not quite 90 (by a long shot) and in the South when I was growing up, "colored people" was a neutral description. "Negro" was 'high-falutin', and the other "N-word" was acknowledged to be disrespectful. "Nigra" was acceptable.

When I was growing up in the mid-70s there was a gentle elderly couple that lived next door to us. Good people, in their late 70s. When my cat had her one and only litter of kittens, the woman, who was widowed by that time (if I am recalling correctly), adopted the one kitten that was mostly black with a little bit of white on his paws. We called him Roscoe, after Roscoe P. Coltrane (so that dates when my cat had her kittens). She renamed him Nigger.

There was not any shame, awkwardness, or outrage... she just named the cat that, not because she was racist or hated "Colored Folks", it was just a completely appropriate name in her mind.