People of color vs colored people - sounds the same to me. The problem is of course, the ‘colored people’ was a southern term used to demean these people; same as the term ‘darkie’.
Since the Democrat party insists on telling white people that brown people and black people are discriminated against by white people - is it any wonder that color terms are used in language now by everyone.
These people need to lighten up - or - quit using the terms of color completely. The of people’s skin is irrelevent.
Uhhh, no. Actually you are dead wrong. the term colored is a term of respect, and no different than calling someone white.
I grew up in the Jim Crow South, and colored people and colored is most certainly not a term of disrespect. There is another ugly word that was used as a term of disrespect. My mother would not allow us to use that other word because she was a Christian woman who respected all of God's creation. There were colored folks and white folks, and that's just the way it was, and no disrespect was meant or taken.
“The problem is of course, the ‘colored people’ was a southern term used to demean these people; same as the term ‘darkie’.”
The term colored people was an upgrade of the term darkie, which itself was an upgrade from the term black and other descriptions.
Colored was later upgraded to Negro, which in turn was upgraded to black.
Black is now, apparently, being upgraded to the term people of color.
Nonsense. It was a descriptive term used by people who had enough respect for blacks' feelings to not call them niggers. Darkie was the same, but with a touch of fondness. (See Steven Foster)