Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:14:40 -0500, Jon Schild wrote
> (in article ):
> 
>>
>> Cheryl Martin wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Andrew Swallow   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wesley Struebing wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> By the way, what colors would those "coloureds" be?
>>>> The Chinese were yellow and people from the Indian subcontinent
>>>> were brown the last time I looked on a London street.
>>>
>>> Is "coloured" not an offensive term in the UK? (she
says noting that
>>> today is MLK day here in the US)
>>>
>>> I'm all sorts of offended by it.  Please don't do it again.
>>>
>>> Cheryl 
>>> (not "coloured", I was born this shade.  No crayons or paints
>>> or dyes involved)
>>>
>> Odd that those who insist on political correctness find
"colored" deeply 
>> offensive, and yet with the other face insist on "people of
color" as 
>> highly correct.<<
> 
> Were you thinking of someone specific?  Because Cheryl never mentioned that 
> she finds the other phrase acceptable.  Nor did anyone else here on this 
> thread.

When a word is banned it normally applies to both the present and
past tense versions of the word.

There is a difference "people of color" is a euphemism for black
persons only, a subset of the other group.

Andrew Swallow
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