and the difference tween colored people and people of color is...
Posted on 08/22/2016 8:16:32 PM PDT by Mozilla
Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach was under fire after she used a racial slur during a broadcast. During the Monday broadcast, Robach, who was filling in for Robin Roberts, used the words “colored people” while speaking about diversity or lack thereof in Hollywood.
During the segment, Amy Robach used the term “colored people” when talking about the criticism Hollywood has received by giving most roles to Caucasian actors.
Specifically, the segment dealt with the casting of mixed actress Zendaya as the reimagined Mary Jane in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming. As the Inquisitr reported, many fans were up in arms over the casting because the character was originally Caucasian in the comic books.
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“Macaca!”
So does that mean that the NAACP’s full name must never be uttered, for fear of being branded a racist?
Nothing short of her resignation should be accepted, make the media live by their own standards!
Wasn’t her defense that she meant to say, “people of color”, and not “colored people” ? That’s the rhetorical knife edge that rules the world these days. ... and who wields the knife?
colored, black, African-American
Then of course there's the N-word, which has been popular in the black community since Jesus was a pup. They change their race names like they change their underwear.
Maybe she meant ‘people of color’. I hear that phrase bandied about, often.
Cancel her endorsement deal with Speedo! Oops...wrong knothead.
PC: The use of the term “colored people” is a racial slur,
but
PC: The use of the term “people of color” is not.
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and the difference tween colored people and people of color is...
“Colored people” is now a racial slur?
No words.
Hermione got infused with melanin in the new Harry Potter, and people criticizing it are called racist. So this is just more of the same. If Hermione had been black from episode 1, no one would have said anything, but it seems everyone is shoving PC down our throats, including Rowling herself, and I for one resent it.
I was at a crosswalk in New Jersey last week, in a complex with a few hotels. A very attractive foreign-speaking (maybe German) woman was with a male companion. All of a sudden, a “person of color” had a radio cranked and the N-word was stated (sung?) at least three times in about 30 seconds. He continued walking. The woman glanced at me in a moment of a horrified appearance. I wanted to say “Welcome to America” but opted to return a look of astonishment.
I spent 25 years in uniform in the New York State prison system. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard black convicts call other black convicts the N word. I’d be rich.
You’re right, Negro should have been added to that list. So is the NAACP going to have to change their name because it’s a racial slur? How about the Negro College Fund? Double standards abound.
Funny thing about the word Negro being unacceptable. Good luck banning it from the Spanish and Portuguese languages. Definition: "Negro denotes "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the Latin word niger, meaning black, which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, "to be dark", akin to *nokw-, night."
They all mean black, or dark skin. Same difference. It's not a real slur, just a perceived one. Meanwhile they call caucasian people "cracker", "honky", or shudder... "white" - and caucasian people don't go ballistic. Blacks should concentrate on more important things, like lightening up and bettering themselves.
Thee was no intent. Nothing to see here, move on.
difference tween colored people and people of color is
lotsa of melanin
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