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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Christ Church, Barbados W.I.
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06-03-06, 05:59 PM
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I called the P*kistani guy aside and told him NEVER to refer to a black person as coloured again because it is degrading to call us that. I told him we prefer to be called black.
He made a scowl and repeated the word black like it was something bad. I said yes refer to us as black becasue that is what we are.
Not wanting to sound thick but we are all here to learn,I hate the term coloured but why is it racist to call a black person coloured?confused3
Iwant to know the background and reasons behind why it is wrong so when it happens again I can teach the arseholes a bit of education.
How do you think I could have handled this differently?
yogi
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Yogi, maybe you should educate yourself before preaching to others, maybe your colleage didn't realise "coloured" was offensive. How can you get mad over a word but you don't know why it upsets you?
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I'll ask you this...what does the word colour mean? surely you can work out for yourself why this would be offensive.
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