[B4Ranch]

I generally say colored as in the NAACP's choice of words. When they change to NAABP, then I may also.

[jocon307]

Yes, why is "people of color" acceptable nowadays, but "colored people" isn't? And why has no one informed the NAACP?

There was a great Feiffer cartoon on this subject, years ago in the village voice. It's got to be almost 20 years ago that it ran, and this silly, pointless, controversy still continues.

[mwdouglass]

Safe to use both:

"colored" as in NAACP
"negro" as in UNF http://www.uncf.org/

[maryz]

I generally say colored as in the NAACP's choice of words.

LOL! I lived in a largely black neighborhood in the 50s for a few years (age 9-13); "colored" was the word polite people used, "Negro" being too high-falutin' and the "n" word, of course, unthinkable!

[BSunday]

Speaking of which, are they promoting white people too ? After all, white is a color. How about American Indians ?

[radiohead]

I generally say colored

I have been working hard to bring back the use of 'colored people.' I kind of like it, it is diverse and can cover many types of people (Hispanics, Asians, blacks, American Indians) which is helpful since I am on a campus and people worry about this stuff. I absolutely refuse to use 'African-American.' I am not about hyphenated Americans.

'People of color' is the more accepted term, but, shoot, I like 'colored people' (pronounced kullud people) and like to say it often in front of white liberals who won't attack me on my un-PC speech because I'm black.

[Cronos]

Well, colored is too broad a term -- it can include everyone from Chinese to Arabs to Africans to South Asians to South East Asians, to even Mediterranean types