People of color

WORDS

They have power.

No word just "is". Nothing is just a word.

I don't like words like ETHNIC or COLOURED or terms like PEOPLE OF COLOUR. I think it's pathetic.

They all have something in common. They use white people as a frame of reference and call yourself by something you aren't. Ethnic in relation to whom? Who is not ethnic? Which person is uncoloured? Is white no longer a colour? What use is the term people of colour? What do I have in common with a Japanese guy that I don't with a white guy? Why should I and said Japanese guy link up and form a club of terminology soley on the basis we aren't white?

All these terms give power to white people by default.

Like that old one "half caste" to describe biracial people. That gave power to the concept of a caste system and supported the idea that one caste or colour is superior to another. The term gave the idea legitimacy.

Coloured, ethnic, person of colour... these do the same thing.