I moved from Seattle to Kentucky seven years ago. I was at first shocked when I heard someone call black people “coloreds”. I realized that it’s pretty common around here.
I find it kinda comical because the new phrase is “people of color” and the old phrase is “colored people”. Anyone who claims there is a difference between those two phrases is like the characters in that old star trek TOS episode where the two races were fighting because one was black and white, with white on the left, and the other was black and white, with white on the right.
It’s the same thing, and I grow tired of using the label de-jure. I went from colored to black to african american, all in my lifetime. I am now just a cantankerous 65 year old. I just call them negroes. And I call my race “caucasian”. If they don’t like it, they can ignore me. I’m good.
I highly doubt that usage is common in this day and age. Even in Kentucky.
I went from colored to black to african american, all in my lifetime. I am now just a cantankerous 65 year old. I just call them negroes.
We've had a long conversation here, and I've explained to you multiple times, that blacks consider the term, 'negro' to be outmoded and offensive. I'm not sure why you can't just call us 'black', which is perfectly acceptable, much as 'white' is for caucasians.
That you insist upon referring to us by a label that we blacks find offensive, and that we rejected over half a century ago, says only one thing - it's your intention to insult us.
By the way. I'm a cantankerous 65 year old myself. That doesn't give me license to insult others.