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rant on the term "people of color"
Juncoph:
today a girl in my social studies class called sandra cisneros a person of color, and afterwards the teacher started using the term too
let me tell you why "person of color" pisses me off- and this isn't even mentioning the fact that i thought we were past the era of whites vs non-whites and calling black ppl colored ("i'm not saying down syndrome people are handicapped people, i'm saying they're people of handicapation!")
sandra cisneros is hispanic.
the primary cultural ancestor of the hispanics are the spaniards.
the spaniards were not buddy-buddy with native americans, asians, or the africans that they imported as slaves to the new world.
lumping the hispanic ethnicity in with everything else that isn't euro-american completely disregards history. ironically, it disregards an entire chapter of white colonialism and imperialism, despite the people who use the term PoC usually being critical of whites oppressing non-whites.
it turns an honest conversation into "us vs them".
my father is a cuban immigrant. i am considered a person of color. i hate the loving term so much. my cultural heritage is not intertwined with ethnic african-americans, japanese-americans, chinese-americans, etc.
and what about the other historically distrusted minorities? are jews people of color? are slavic immigrants? where do you draw this handicapped line?
it just pisses me off and saddens me that we've literally regressed to using an ignorant and tribal term for the sake of political correctness. and i'm not a whiney whitey. remember, i count as a PoC
EDIT: fixed cisneros's first name, no clue where i got julia from
Electrk²:
they get to use the special water fountains
Juncoph:
--- Quote from: Electrk² on September 12, 2017, 03:09:15 PM ---they get to use the special water fountains
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"we're using these fountains in our stand against white oppression. whites will have to use their own fountains!"
Corderlain:
Just call everyone darkies. Works great.
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote ---I found this a week or so ago and just had to ‘share it’…lol How true is this…lol
Written by an African child and nominated by The United Nations
as the Best Poem of 2006.
And you calling me colored??
When I born, I black.
When I grow up, I black.
When I go in sun, I black.
When I scared, I black.
When I sick, I black.
And when I die, I still black.
And you white people.
When you born, you pink.
When you grow up, you white.
When you go in sun, you red.
When you cold, you blue.
When you scared, you yellow.
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you grey…
And you calling me colored??
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