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I created no terms. I call people by what they want to be called. At one point in my life, people wanted to be called "African Americans". So that's what I called them. Then they wanted to be called "black". That's what I call them. But "people of color" strips away every last bit of a person's identity and throws them in the pot with every other person on the planet who is not a white European. I refuse to do that, because I think it's insulting, denigrating, and wrong.
Nor did I "want to eradicate the original cultures of Africans in the U.S." Again, I go by what people want me to call them. If a black person says they want to be called "black", then I call them "black". I didn't come up with that label.
NOR did I come up with the insipid "people of color". I am against that stupid label for the reason I have already expressed. You're barking up the wrong white person tree. You need to go over to that "white liberal guilt" tree to rant about this topic.
FYI - on the 1790 Census, the first of the newly created United States of America - there were two racial categories - WHITE and "OTHER" which was designated as those "of color" and not considered "white."
The people who created those categories were American white men. They made whites and "people of color" back in the 1700s. By 1830, the census listed WHITE and FREE COLORED meaning "people of color."
I agree with other posters that it is odd you all are upset about these terms now. Write a note to the Founding Fathers and complain IMO lol.
FYI - on the 1790 Census, the first of the newly created United States of America - there were two racial categories - WHITE and "OTHER" which was designated as those "of color" and not considered "white."
The people who created those categories were American white men. They made whites and "people of color" back in the 1700s. By 1830, the census listed WHITE and FREE COLORED meaning "people of color."
I agree with other posters that it is odd you all are upset about these terms now. Write a note to the Founding Fathers and complain IMO lol.
Yeah sure, and Benjamin Franklin believed that Germans (other than Saxons) were non-white.
Not sure why it would make sense to "[w]rite a note to the Founding Fathers," over terminology that, according to Wikipedia, was popularized only in the late 1970s.
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The phrase "women of color" was developed and introduced for wide use by a group of black women activists at the National Women's Conference in 1977.
The Founding Fathers are all long dead. How do you propose we send a note to them?
I created no terms. I call people by what they want to be called. At one point in my life, people wanted to be called "African Americans". So that's what I called them. Then they wanted to be called "black". That's what I call them. But "people of color" strips away every last bit of a person's identity and throws them in the pot with every other person on the planet who is not a white European. I refuse to do that, because I think it's insulting, denigrating, and wrong.
Nor did I "want to eradicate the original cultures of Africans in the U.S." Again, I go by what people want me to call them. If a black person says they want to be called "black", then I call them "black". I didn't come up with that label.
NOR did I come up with the insipid "people of color". I am against that stupid label for the reason I have already expressed. You're barking up the wrong white person tree. You need to go over to that "white liberal guilt" tree to rant about this topic.
Blah blah blah...spare me the nonsense. People of color is an old term that has been used to describe black peoples and others. It goes at least as far back as the 1800s. Black goes back further. BOTH we’re given after stripping away the cultures of African peoples.
Again, people of African origin didn’t come up with people of color OR black. There is no land called either. You’re barking up the wrong tree with this nonsense. I don’t care about your little liberal/conservative deflections. Both are white American and European terms. PERIOD.
I'm not sure why the origins of the term "people of color" warrants pages of posts, but what I do know is that, with some obvious edge cases, many folks have a general idea of what the expression means and for many conversations it's "good enough". If specificity is required, it can certainly be asked for. The other thing I do know is that all it takes is for some folks perceive enough negativity in the usage of the term and it too will fall out of favor and will be followed by some other term that basically means the same thing, such is the way of language.
I'm not sure why the origins of the term "people of color" warrants pages of posts, but what I do know is that, with some obvious edge cases, many folks have a general idea of what the expression means and for many conversations it's "good enough". If specificity is required, it can certainly be asked for. The other thing I do know is that all it takes is for some folks perceive enough negativity in the usage of the term and it too will fall out of favor and will be followed by some other term that basically means the same thing, such is the way of language.
White people have plenty of color. In fact the white variation of the human being is the most diverse.
I'm not sure why the origins of the term "people of color" warrants pages of posts, but what I do know is that, with some obvious edge cases, many folks have a general idea of what the expression means and for many conversations it's "good enough". If specificity is required, it can certainly be asked for. The other thing I do know is that all it takes is for some folks perceive enough negativity in the usage of the term and it too will fall out of favor and will be followed by some other term that basically means the same thing, such is the way of language.
The advocates of this terminology have continually deflected, spun, and side-stepped. That's how we end up with pages upon pages. We finally did get somewhat of a straight response from 'Taiko:'
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Originally Posted by Taiko
If I understand current American racial politics. Because Cameron Diaz's father can link to Cuba she is a person of color. However if we knew for a fact that he was born in Spain and merely lived in Cuba before coming to America she still would be a person of color.
So it turns out that yes, Cameron Diaz is a 'person of color.' And he/she goes on to explain that a Palestinian prior to the 6 day war (1967) would be white, but thereafter a 'person of color.' LOL, you guys need to pick up Alice in Wonderland and in particular the section on Humpty Dumpty.
I like to be able to define the terms that people use when they are trying to communicate something to me. Those who can't define the terms they use literally don't know what they're talking about.
White people have plenty of color. In fact the white variation of the human being is the most diverse.
This is true; a close relative did the DNA thing. Our family is mostly N. European (Brit and Scandinavian) but 1% sub-Saharan African. I'll have to ask Taiko if that qualifies me as a 'person of color.'
Ask the people that came up with those labels. Americans of African descent only came up with one of them.
What does it matter who came up with them? How can we know that, anyway? What matters now is who is using the labels. Most of these labels have been used, pushed, and popularized by far-left proponents of identity politics. 'People of color' would definitely fall into that category.
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