You’re getting hammered pretty hard on the votes, but you are generally correct. I would not advise you try calling a Black person “coloured” in 2026. POC, or just flat out Black, is the more accepted term today. The point of POC is that it emphasizes the personhood over the colour aspect.
Larry was helping a black family who also ironically had the last name “Black” and they were staying at his house until they found another place to live.
During that time he couldn’t invite his date over because there was zero privacy with so many people.
The doctor had similar issue as her family was also staying over at her place.
That said, white people are generally actually various shades of pinky beige, black people are generally various shades of brown, but our language uses colour-based terminology to refer to ethnicity anyway.
Complaining that white is a colour, so whites should be included as coloured people, is kind of silly in that context.
Especially if you remember that the term “coloured people” originated as a way to stop people who had black and white heritage from getting any of the benefits of their whiteness.
It’s not ‘I want to be included too’ but like, the entire thing is silly. We are all some shade of a color. To single out a group and call them ‘colored’ when we literally all are is just, wat.
I mean it’s not like the people who were at the helm of racism were particularly intelligent, but like come on. It’s almost comical how smooth-brained they were (are). If I pulled out a pack of crayons and pointed to the white one, their worldview may implode.
You mean “people of colour”? “Coloured people” is a racist term.
I’ll try to remember that in the future, although I don’t understand the difference.
“people of colour” and “coloured people” is essentially the same thing. There are better words than both
You’re getting hammered pretty hard on the votes, but you are generally correct. I would not advise you try calling a Black person “coloured” in 2026. POC, or just flat out Black, is the more accepted term today. The point of POC is that it emphasizes the personhood over the colour aspect.
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Larry was helping a black family who also ironically had the last name “Black” and they were staying at his house until they found another place to live.
During that time he couldn’t invite his date over because there was zero privacy with so many people.
The doctor had similar issue as her family was also staying over at her place.
The NAACP never changed their name, so I assumed the term just fell out of use, but wasn’t necessarily offensive.
I’ve always thought either were silly - it implies that ‘white’ isn’t a color. Even if you say ‘white is the absence of color’ that itself is a color.
‘hey Bill, what did you paint your fence as’ ‘I painted it not a color’ ‘ah, quite basic, no?’
The absence of colour is not a colour.
That said, white people are generally actually various shades of pinky beige, black people are generally various shades of brown, but our language uses colour-based terminology to refer to ethnicity anyway.
Complaining that white is a colour, so whites should be included as coloured people, is kind of silly in that context.
Especially if you remember that the term “coloured people” originated as a way to stop people who had black and white heritage from getting any of the benefits of their whiteness.
It’s not ‘I want to be included too’ but like, the entire thing is silly. We are all some shade of a color. To single out a group and call them ‘colored’ when we literally all are is just, wat.
I mean it’s not like the people who were at the helm of racism were particularly intelligent, but like come on. It’s almost comical how smooth-brained they were (are). If I pulled out a pack of crayons and pointed to the white one, their worldview may implode.
I definitely agree that the whole racism thing is absolutely stupid. A whole kingdom of cruelties based on nothing important.
People usually don’t care consider white to be a colour. You wouldn’t call a white wall colourful, would you?
but ‘white’ people do not actually have white skin
And black people don’t actually have black skin. It’s a just a form of classification.
Eh, it’s not ‘vibrant’ or ‘pops’ but it’s okay. Neutral can be a nice color.