If we’re going to use the term “people of color” why not simply colored?
Black is not really a color, same as white. Black is the absorption of all color and white is the reflection of all color. That leaves us with red and yellow. Or those blue people from Pluto.
Apparently, “people of color” is okay but “colored” is racist. Or something. Can all this crap get any “stupider”? Why yes, it most certainly can. What sort of assclown thinks up this bs anyway. Put your “skills” to good use and quit your belly achin’. Sheesh.
They don’t use the term “colored people” because the term “colored” was used in the South during segregation to distinguish facilities for black Americans from facilities from white Americans. It is, in fact, racist.
Here’s a link to signs from that era:
In addition, the term people of color includes Hispanics, Asians, and any other group having non-white skin (including Middle Eastern and South Asian peoples that, despite skin tones ranging from nearly white to ash gray, are all racially Caucasians).
Of course, when the critics really want to put white MEN in their box, the term “people of color and women” is used to incorporate (and isolate) white women from white men.