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Kunjufu · (#6 (**permalink**))

Thoth B3 wrote:

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I think you guys have the meaning of "coloured" all wrong. This is yet another topic that we will continue to be confused about if we do not understand White Supremacy...

White people saw themselves as the standard of man; hence why the U.S. Constitution says that Africans were "three-fifths of a man." The reason the word "coloured" is racist is because it implies that the lack of color is the standard for being human.

If you want to flip the script on a racist user of the word, then call him/her a "blanked", "blanched", "blanky", "blenched", "bleached", "depleted", "chalked", "etiolated", or so forth. If I used any of these words regularly in reference to Whites then I would be a racist myself because it implies that a human being normally does not have their skin pigmentation "depleted." Although we know that biologically it is unnatural for man to lack skin pigmentation, it would still be racist and politically incorrect terminology.

One last thing, I really don't like be called "black" either. Perhaps in another language other than English (like kem, etc.), but not "black" in any European language.

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I think Thoth is partly on pointon this one,as towhy this term is completely offensive...but Yogi...to put it even simpler (i hope), the problem with being called coloured is simply this.... ******, negro, coloured, Black, Ethnic minoritry and now Black Minority Ethnic..these are made up names...someone elses idea of who and what we are.....that is why its offensive.. They were not names we choose for ourselves and they are not names that properly reflect our history, culture or identity they are meaningless names intended to demean, insult and dehumanise.....that is why they are offensive...

The flip side would be if we made up a name for his culture, his religion and his identity and then kept calling him that instead of the name chosen by his people..he wouldn't appreciate it and neither do we.....respect begets respect....simple