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I prefer to be called black. Not BIPOC or POC.
I do call white people people of no color though if someone insists on saying POC in a discussion, however. It’s an all or nothing for me.
AHHAHAHAHAHH I am totally going to steal that one too.
I honestly stopped caring how “they” address us. Racism is here to stay.
Unfortunately you are right. It isn't going anywhere.
This is how I feel. It popped up after I finished school and when I first heard it I was a little shocked. Especially when I found out people were addressing Black folks that way. Also seems maybe like it erases the individual identities of people who are inside of that group? Idk maybe I'm overthinking it
Agreed. I hate it and sounds exactly like colored people which we (black people) told them to stop calling us decades ago. I prefer to be called black or African American. If a non-white person says it to me in a moment of solidarity or connection (i.e. as a fellow person of color, I can understand how…), I’m not offended but I wish this term didn’t take off so rampantly. It’s everywhere now 🤦🏾♀️. Hence the name of this bowl 😂
It feels like I'm being lumped into one bucket with a bunch of cultures/people I don't relate to. It can feel very 'us vs them' when compared with non -colored folks
This is one of my problems with the phrase too. It's trying to force people from completely different backgrounds to be in one group. It's weird to be and again making being white the norm and everything non-white "different". I agree it's "us vs them"
Depends on the context. If the context is to build coalition or support across groups, then I used POC or non-white. Otherwise I just go with the specific identity
THIS EXACTLY. The terms has just meant to be as all-encompassing (as possible) in the mobilization of anti-racist agendas. If I recall correctly, it was actually an act of of reclaiming the other term “colored people” by those underserved minorities themselves. So it’s actually comes from a positive political standpoint.
Sometimes I feel like it’s meant to minimize the struggles blacks have faced, but sometimes the term is correct. Really depends on context for me
D) All of the above.
I was just talking to a friend about this. I do not like this and I never have. I am a black woman and have never referred to myself as a "person of color". I say that I am black
I think it's the "political" way to describe any one who is not white and I don't like that. We're treated as the "other" which is doing the reverse effect of what they are trying to do. I think the phrase is doing ethnic people a dissrvice
What would be the preferred alternative in those situations where it is referring to all non-white groups (even if I would prefer that all groups get addressed individually, that won’t always happen).