Sean Barrett wrote:
if you don't, it implies you would prefer to refer to Blacks as "negroes" or "colored people" again.
Only a deluded person would prefer the horrifically evil phrase "colored people" to the beatifically enlightened "people of color." Oh! Excuse me, I meant "person of delusions."
Of course "colored people" had a different meaning in the U.S. and in apartheid South Africa. The term "people of color" tends to be used of practically anybody that is not of waspish hue.
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