“People of color”

[Alpha Male]

Back in the ‘good ole days’ blacks were often referred to as colored people. From what I can gather most people would probably take offense to this term in present day and next to nobody uses it with maybe the exception of some elderly whites.

And yet today almost everyone, both black and non-black, are perfectly comfortable labeling black people as “people of color”. Just yesterday during the march David Hogg’s mother was referring to “inner city neighborhoods where people of color live...”

Do I really have to point out the stupidity? Can someone tell me how we ended up right back to where we started and why all of sudden this kind of code language has become acceptable?

 

[Nobu]

Yes, you do have to point out the stupidity. Because on the whole, we just don't get it.

By 'it', I mean the importance of focusing on black, not Black + (LGBTQ, Women or any other qualifier), not "People of Color", but simply black empowerment only. No broader scope, and no narrower scope.

This is a Law I've coined (in the social science sense of the term, not legal):

Anywhere you find Black people living in the same community[1] as a non-trivial amount of non-Blacks, with enough time, the Blacks will manage to find themselves on the bottom of the wealth and power totem pole.

As a corollary to this law, any time you have a social campaign dedicated to improving the lives of black + (LGBTQ, Women), the black issues will take the least precedence.

I'm hard pressed to think of many counterexamples to this Law. I've seen it in the US, with even Hispanic wealth surpassing Black wealth. In South American countries, the blacks are typically on the bottom of the totem pole. Even in Africa Blacks don't manage to truly control their continent.

I didn't mention anything about why that's the case, but to manage to be nearly universal losers in every society, there are only 2 reasonable conclusions.

We have a low IQ, or there's something socially these other races understand that allows them to come in and do things like be 8.9% of the community but control 85% of the land. I think the IQ thing is complete BS. But socially, we're not naturally built for the ugly side of establishing/maintaining dominance.

In other words, OP, the POC phenomena is just another manifestation of our lack of true pride.

[1] whether that be a city, state, or nation

 

[hashmander]

well these days people of color basically refers to every non-white person in america today.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

"People of color" isn't a codeword for Black, it's meant to refer to all non-White people. There are obviously massive differences in lived experience and history between Black people and other non-White people, but there are times when experiences are shared too, especially when it comes to power. Just like there are massive differences in lived experience and history between different Black people (say an AA from LA versus an AA from Mississippi versus a Black Cuban refugee versus a Kenyan geneticist who immigrated to work in a lab) but there are shared causes between them too.

People used to say "minorities" for that shared category, but it fell out of favor because it was clear that the White people were sometimes technically a "minority" in some situations, and because people had started to throw women and "sexual minorities" and all that other different stuff in that category.

 

[wickedsm]

I am not sure whats confusing about this to anyone, or are we just trying to stir up some shyt?
POC=blacks, browns,reds, yellows non yt folk
there are absolutely concentrated areas of "colored people" that arent Black.
those are communities of POC.

 

[Alpha Male]

I am not sure whats confusing about this to anyone, or are we just trying to stir up some shyt?
POC=blacks, browns,reds, yellows non yt folk
there are absolutely concentrated areas of "colored people" that arent Black.
those are communities of POC.

not trying to stir up anything, I just thought that term “colored people” was considered to be somewhat offensive by a lot of people.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

It's a new term for every non-white group. And it's just 'color' not colored like the old term.

 

[Alpha Male]

It's a new term for every non-white group. And it's just 'color' not colored like the old term.

all due respect but that sounds to me like useless semantics in order to justify things.

people of color = colored people

the meaning is exactly the same. It’s two different ways of saying the same thing.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

all due respect but that sounds to me like useless semantics in order to justify things.

people of color = colored people

the meaning is exactly the same. It’s two different ways of saying the same thing.

You are wrong.
Colored people = Black People, most likely African Americans
People of Color = The African Diaspora, Asians, Arabs, Persians, Latins, Pacific Islanders, American Indians

 

[Alpha Male]

You are wrong.
Colored people = Black People, most likely African Americans
People of Color = The African Diaspora, Asians, Arabs, Persians, Latins, Pacific Islanders, American Indians

what makes one offensive and not the other?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

what makes one offensive and not the other?

'Colored people' is an old term that has been updated to African American/Black. It's not offensive but just oldtimey. It's like calling someone ''whipper snapper", or calling soda "pop" or a woman "Dame". It's just a weird thing to say in that context in 2018.
People of Color is a new Politically Correct term that makes you sound smart, hip and of the times.

 

[Alpha Male]

'Colored people' is an old term that has been updated to African American/Black. It's not offensive but just oldtimey. It's like calling someone ''whipper snapper", or calling soda "pop" or a woman "Dame". It's just a weird thing to say in that context in 2018.
People of Color is a new Politically Correct term that makes you sound smart, hip and of the times.

so in other words it's all bullshyt then

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

OP woke up triggered and now wants to troll about race and language use. You sad fukk.

 

[Alpha Male]

OP woke up triggered and now wants to troll about race and language use. You sad fukk.

you're the one negging and namecalling so who's really triggered.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

so in other words it's all bullshyt then

I don't know what you mean. Both terms exist and one is common nowadays the other one isn't.