[cyborg]

there's a difference between colored in the US and coloured in the English colonies... coloured means a person of mixed race or like in South Africa who descented from the original Dutch and Malay/African stock. My grandmother will often call me coloued or half caste but she's old and sweet you see. Or bruin messe, meaning coloured in afrikaans. My mother will sometimes talk about 'old niggers' that is people with very distasteful manners but that is an island term used across by everyone. There is a beach in Trinidad called Nigger Beach.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

"Colored" used to be a word used to refer to negroes, that is, when they were called negro, which is a synonym for black. Now you can't say negro and you can't say colored (which I never did anyway), but you can say black and "of color" which imples "whites" have NO color. What to do.....