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Take it up with your ancestors, if they were here in 1796 when the term was first listed in The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style. It was popularized when Martin Luther King Jr started using the term in the 1960s through the '70s and it denotes anyone who isn't white. All phrases are "made up terms"; it's what educated people called 'language.'
The definition of the phrases "colorless people" and "people of color" are constantly changing. People move in and out of these made up terms all the time. Thats why it has no real meaning, especially when another made up term "hispanic" is added to this mix as well, in addition to east asians (who are always ignored in these discussions).
"People of color" are apparently everybody but European "whites". It is a fabricated divide contrived by a certain group of especially proactive racists in our society that they use to single out European "white" people in order to try to play off everyone else off against them. It is a manipulative and hostile concept, without biological basis, that only exists to help these people forward their own racist agendas.
In fact, there is really only one basic skin color, as virtually all people have brown skin of various different shades, ranging from very light to very dark.
And nobody is truly 'without color'. What a bunch of racist liars the Democrat left is composed of.
Agreed. If there were enough good-paying jobs out there to go around for everyone, most of us would not be as concerned about immigration. I’m a liberal, but I see us importing poverty at a time when we can ill-afford to do so. Separating kids from their parents like that is just beyond the pale, though. I’m not okay with this administration. At all.
I have a couple of questions for you and will be interested to see if you have the decency and maturity to come back and answer them.
1 - Were you okay with the last 2 administrations, when this was happening? Did you even know it was occurring previously? If not, why not?
2 - Do you understand that Presidents DO NOT make laws, they enforce laws. CONGRESS makes the laws of our land. Write to the Senators and Congress people of your district if you don't like our immigration laws.
I haven't done a poll but I believe most thinking Americans do have concern about illegal immigration no matter the economy or jobs.
The definition of the phrases "colorless people" and "people of color" are constantly changing. People move in and out of these made up terms all the time. Thats why it has no real meaning, especially when another made up term "hispanic" is added to this mix as well, in addition to east asians (who are always ignored in these discussions).
Mike, all words CHANGE meaning over time. Ever look words up in dictionaries from past centuries and compare them to modern usage, or look at the origins of words---their pedigree, so to speak? With the onset of social media word usage changes more swiftly than it did when you were a kid but those changes don't devalue how a word is currently being used. Learn to keep up or be considered ignorant---your choice.
Mike, all words CHANGE meaning over time. Ever look words up in dictionaries from past centuries and compare them to modern usage, or look at the origins of words---their pedigree, so to speak? With the onset of social media word usage changes more swiftly than it did when you were a kid but those changes don't devalue how a word is currently being used. Learn to keep up or be considered ignorant---your choice.
There is a difference here. You are trying to portray "colorless people" and "people of color" as describing something objective and neutral. But using this classification of people is meaningless. Most so-called "hispanics" and east asians have the same color as what you describe as colorless people.
If people of color are darker skinned then white or lighter skinned people would be people of light or people of lightness. Colorlessness is transparency, I've never met a see through person.
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