EnWorlders of Color

[Doc_Souark]

American Beige

 

[Brian Chalian]

Thanks, heirodude.

Check Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and W.E.B DuBois for illustrious and proud usage of the terms colored people and Negroes. People of color is the linguistic equivalent of preferring hoop earrings over stud earrings.

Do you know if "colored person" and "negro" are just old fashioned, or actually offensive nowadays?

 

[Skarp Hedin]

Thanks, heirodude.
Do you know if "colored person" and "negro" are just old fashioned, or actually offensive nowadays?

Well, the NAACP still uses "Colored People", and the United Negro College Fund of course uses "Negro". However, those two organizations have been around a goodly while, too, so I don't know.

 

[blackshirt5]

I'm Irish-American. Which means I'm super-white.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I'm a Chinese-Canadian born and raised in BC. Most likely full-blooded Han, originating from southern China around Hong Kong and Guangzhou province. With a last name like Ng I always have to explain to a lot of people how to either pronounce or spell my last name. It really just has to do with the fact that Cantonese has an inconsitent way of romanization (unlike Mandarin). I'm usually the token Asian guy in most gaming groups I'm in, and in western Canada its sort of hard to find anyone in a gaming group that isn't either White or Asian.

 

[Lola]

If it's a country in Europe, I have ancestors there. I'm so pale, I glow in the dark like faint moonlight seen from another room, like starlight shining through the tent roof...

 

[Trainz]

I saw on Discovery that 1 in 200 chinese have Gengis Khan in their family tree. That's cool. He had thousands of children, wanting to breed an army.

My dad is Basque, and from my mommy I got american-indian.

 

[Henry]

Thanks, heirodude.

Do you know if "colored person" and "negro" are just old fashioned, or actually offensive nowadays?

Judging that the NAACP and the UNCF have not changed their names yet, in this day and age, I'm assuming it's "old fashioned." There are still a lot of senior citizens who default to both terms, and some even in the heirarchy of both organizations who use these descriptors.

Also, thanks to everyone who has participated. We mods are always kind of careful around potentially sensitive topics, but the both openness and consideration everyone's given this thread is a really cool thing to behold.

That's all of my gushing for now.

 

[Emiricol]

Not everything has to accomplish something or serve some hidden agenda. Perhaps he was simply curious. There's no harm in that. You're jumping at shadows.

I didn't say anything about his post "serving a hidden agenda," which has a lot of baggage associated with the term, nor did I assume there was something harmful in his post that needed "jumping" at. I find your choice of words very, ah, curious to say the least.

I dismissed it as irrelevant to my worldview, not irrelevant to his, and definitely not as you suggest. [inflammatory remark deleted by poster].

Then I proceeded to participate on-topic in the conversation.

So... Sorry that bugs you, but you are being a little twitchy, I think.

 

[Wraith Form]

I'm a honkey. (But I'm not a cracker, so don't even think it.)

Does that count?