Thank you! I do not respond to the term PEOPLE OF COLOR! I teach my students to try to STOP using the term POC in my classes and instead shove Richard Dyers WHITE down their throats (whether they like it or not). Because white is visible...it is a color. ––––––––––––––––––––– The Journey From Colored To Minorities To People Of Color Person or people as a term for human beings, thats pretty much uncontroversial. But color — which can be used as a noun, an adjective or a verb (transitive and intransitive) — is a word packed with history, prejudice and confusion when its used to describe someones complexion as an indication of race or ethnicity. The adjective form — colored — we hardly need the OED to confirm, but it says the term is now: Usually considered offensive ... Coloured was adopted in the United States by emancipated slaves as a term of racial pride after the end of the American Civil War. It was rapidly replaced from the late 1960s as a self-designation by black and later by African-American, although it is retained in the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In Britain it was the accepted term for black, Asian, or mixed-race people until the 1960s. In a 1988 New York Times column about the phrase, the late great language maven William Safire pointed out that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to citizens of color in his speech at the 1963 March on Washington.
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