My graphic design teacher calls black people "people of color". Honestly though, he's old and grew up in the south. I can't really fault him for that when he is using in the context of them being good people. Especially when he is talking about how he spent his vacation in New Orleans putting their houses back together....

Actually, people of color is fairly PC. It's not an archaic term like "colored people". :)

I actually had a customer refer to one of my cashiers as a "coloured girl". Taken aback this phrase and mindset, I thought I was being ironic when I said, "what colour was she? Was she like a caramel?" To which the man replied, "Oh no: She wasn't the *dark* one you got there."

Gotta love Somerville. In the world of the Townies, even the "caramel-coloured" people are "dark".

Good Lord, people suck!

"People of color" is actually the "PC" term. It's "people first" language. Like how you don't say, "Disabled person," you'd say, "Person with a disability" in order to be PC.

She's like, "Oh no, Lindsay, you did NOT just say 'colored'."

The picture just says it all. LOL!

I always thought 'colored person' was such a nice term. But the baggage it comes with just screws it.

Facepalming? Is that the road version of headdesking?

Sure is. :)