Posted on 05/28/2021 5:46:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
This week, we're marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. His death at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—who has been convicted of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter—sparked a national conversation about racism in America. It's a conversation that's long overdue, that activists like us have been waiting for for too long.
But the national conversation hasn't been perfect. Far from it. And we've noticed one particular penchant that we feel requires correction: the use of the term "people of color" when what you mean is Black.
"People of color" or POCs as it's known in shorthand is a term that activists came up with back in the 70s to replace the commonly used terms "non-white" or "minority." The use of POC was seen as a way of centering the non-white narrative, giving minoritized people back their subjectivity in a sense. And it caught on, becoming commonplace in the media by the 90s.
The problem is when you use the term "people of color" when what you mean is Black.
Take, for example, police brutality. As America has come to understand finally, the police are disproportionately killing Black people. To use the term "people of color" or even the newly popular BIPOC, which stands for Black and Indigenous people of color, to speak about police brutality obscures Black people's specific struggle against police brutality.
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People of color = colored people. We’ve gone full circle.
The problem is when you capitalize "black" as if it was always that way. Sick of this Shit.
Do they want to be called "Black" or not!?
Also ... stop saying ‘Black’ when you mean ‘black’.
Don’t presume to tell me what words to use. You should have learned that before first grade.
Beat me to it ...
Soul Brothers
The “struggle” seems to be one of respecting authority, not resisting arrest, not attacking officers, not fleeing, not pointing weapons at officers, not going after officers with knopives and crowbars, and generally obeying the law.
When we visited Trinidad and Tobago, I was called, “that colorored man”...I am white. So you are correct.
So, I need to figure out...
Am I a Person of Discolor, or a Discolored Person?
Or am I a Clear Person, or a Person of Clarity?
Or just invisible?
In everyday meaning WHITE is also a color. Its a basic color in paint stores everywhee.
Sorry, I will always use the term black. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. And African American is STUPID! since not all blacks are American!
Most of the non-black People of Color I know don’t want anything to do with being lumped in with blacks.
In the spectrum of light, I thought black was the absence of color and white was the combination of all colors.
Problem is, “People of Color” doesn’t just mean blacks.
It is a linguistic trick to group all non-whites together in opposition of ‘colorless’ folks, i.e. whitey.
It is intended to make whites ‘the other’ and justify or rationalize harming them.
Seems like a few years ago, they were saying we should be using POC and not black. Now they’re flip flopping.
I ca kind of see the point. POC plural is POCs which sounds like Pox.
BIPOC also includes non Castilian Hispanics, and in this country also means Muslims and those here illegally.
Why aren’t they saying People of Color
Matter? Or Colored People matter?
Should James Brown’s hit be re recorded
(he’s dead though)—Say It Loud, I’m
A Person of Color And I’m Proud?
“Don’t call me Colored!”
“Okay, how about Person of Color?”
“That’s OK”
When does NAACP change its name to
NAAPOC?
And United Negro College Fund still
has its name though people have objected
to a mountain being called Mt Negro.
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