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Why Do We Call Black People "Coloured People" ?
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14-05-2014, 04:13 PM
ikr it's so stupid, black isn't even a colour!
iBlueBox
14-05-2014, 04:14 PM
blacks still a colour isn't it though
Kardan
14-05-2014, 04:16 PM
I don't know anyone that calls black people coloured. Everyone I know calls them black.
scottish
14-05-2014, 04:16 PM
no blacks a shade not a colour ;lll
Kardan
14-05-2014, 04:19 PM
no blacks a shade not a colour ;lll
Does that mean we call them shady people?
scottish
14-05-2014, 04:20 PM
How racist, just because they're black they're not always shady ;l
Kardan
14-05-2014, 04:21 PM
How racist, just because they're black they're not always shady ;l
I do believe it's spelt waycist.
scottish
14-05-2014, 04:23 PM
I don't believe so, apparently waycist is if you're against someone who has the surname 'way, for example gerard or mikey way from the band my chemical romance.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=waycist
i call black people black
Absently
15-05-2014, 01:16 AM
Yah I'm pretty sure it may just be people who are uneducated call black people 'coloured', which is probably a very small minority
I remember malcom x saying that and read it before 2005!! Words change. At a time negro or coloured would have been more acceptable than black. Terms change from being acceptable to unacceptable. It's a really great poem though!
!x!dude!x!2
15-05-2014, 02:52 AM
No I don't call them 'coloured'. I call them by their names they were given
Excuse me
standing on one leg
I'm half-caste
Explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when picasso
mix red an green
is a half-caste canvas/
explain yuself
wha u mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when light an shadow
mix in de sky
is a half-caste weather/
well in dat case
england weather
nearly always half-caste
in fact some o dem cloud
half-caste till dem overcast
so spiteful dem dont want de sun pass
ah rass/
- abraham lincoln
GommeInc
15-05-2014, 02:53 PM
They used to be referred to as coloured in our grandparents time, but then people realised that white people tan, go blue, go green etc and were more mutli-coloured than black people ever will be.
Also, they are for all intents and purposes coloured seeing as black isn't technically accurate, but it sounds better than brown which is more accurate.
kitten
15-05-2014, 04:31 PM
i have never called a black person coloured
karter
15-05-2014, 04:39 PM
since white americans started terming people other than themselves as 'coloured'
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