Black folks.

Tim May wrote... "Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?" Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard. Likewise with "physically challenged". My black karate Sensei used to periodically laugh at the shame and embarassment associated with any speech "coloration"...to the point where some people won't even mention skin color when describing another person. -TD

From: Tim May To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Colored people Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:39:16 -0700

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 08:39 PM, Mac Norton wrote:

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There was a weapons charge as well, which will always complicate matters considerably. The unconventional life is a more or less fine thing until it gets perpendicular to the conventional life, usually in the form of law enforcement agents. When that happens, and it almost surely will, what is necessary is a relatively big bunch of money, or a plea bargain.

What happened here is happening to young men (yes, usually men, and as in this case, of color)

Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?

I thought colored people wanted to be called by other names, now they and their whiteliberal supporters are routinely using the silly name "people of color."

(Of course, we live in an age where homosexuals call themselves "queers" and propagate the name--Queer Nation, Queers of Color, Queer Eye for the Pervert Guy, etc.--and yet file lawsuits when others call them queers. And we live in an age where negroes call themselves and other negroes "niggers" and name their minstrel acts "Niggaz with Attitude" but then insist that persons of whiteness call them "NWA" so as not to use the "offensive" "N-word.")

If the coloreds want to be called that, fine with me.

--Tim May

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