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.
” 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”
I grew up in the Northeast-——and that’s the way we referred to blacks——what psycho came to the conclusion that this was a bad thing?
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