[luvbach1]

“Now the preferred usage is people of color ..."

Which means exactly the same thing as "colored people."

[sparklite2]

My favorite of all time cartoon ran in the National Lampoon.
It showed a black sharecropper standing in the watermelon patch in front of his decrepit shack. He was holding a watermelon in his hands, and the watermelon is saying, “Let my people go.”