In today's installment of "Words Mean Things", consider the current politically correct terminology for a person of minority descent: "Person of Color".
Even though this term is the current "non-offensive" vernacular, it is not far removed from the now highly offensive "colored person" or its shorted form "colored". I know of some Black Americans who hear these offensive terms in their mind whenever they are referred to as a "person of color". In fact, that's what I hear now when someone uses the phrase "person of color".
It makes one wonder just how much certain things have really changed, doesn't it?
At some point, we should probably have a discussion about the "spectrum" (Black -> Colored -> White).
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