Why Calling Black People 'Colored People' Is Problematic

Arizona Republican Rep. Eli Crane called Black people ‘colored people’ on the House floor - here’s why it's problematic.
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[@arthurfoyt6727]

Why not ask the NAACP to change their name if it's offensive?

[@BWolf00]

It's okay when they say it, but not Whyte Rycists...and the list of banned words/language grows for only one group.

[@_Somsnosa_]

Boo hoo

[@larryforeman]

Because it's not black owned We can ask them to change it, but they wouldn't.But they are definitely connected donations of us To be honest we need to sew them

[@ThePriceMaster]

What does NAACP stand for?

[@ragingshibe]

National Association of the Advancement of Colored People.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

LOL. I love how you think that matters.

[@GavinCooper05]

​@@CChrist-mh4mk love how you don't

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@GavinCooper05 Because I live in reality.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@GavinCooper05 Can you tell me when the NAACP was created?

[@ciarandoyle4349]

Some of us are colored pink, and that's ok by me.

[@Discipleofyeshuahamaschiach]

There is nothing that doesn’t have a color 😒🤦🏾‍♂️

[@SubFlow22]

"Colored People" as opposed to "People of Color"? This is just ridiculous. There are better things to worry about.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

Racism is always something people should worry about.

[@rickysanders6487]

@@CChrist-mh4mk "Racism is always something people should worry about." Yes, racism (and any form of bigotry) is a poisonous mindset that should be weeded out of any free and open society but being obtuse about how it is defined and identified doesn't help society progress either. Though the subjects can overlap, prejudice is an issue that goes much deeper than speech. Getting mad at a guy for mixing up words does absolutely NOTHING to address the underlying problems that keep racism alive.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Like Drag Queens and Bud Light? 😂

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@rickysanders6487 except he 100% isn’t mixing up words. If you’re American and don’t know that colored people is racist then you are racist.

[@joeyharper4976]

​@@CChrist-mh4mkDemocrats brainwashed you well.

[@thegunnylocker5783]

Now do a video on on the blacks/rappers using the N word.

[@retrozip]

Yeah, this doesn't really sound like a big deal. Only one person said and he got scolded for it . Why act like things are going to massively change? Feels like you're bringing up a problem thats already been solved

[@joshuaDstarks]

Huh?

[@quesadilla9957]

It’s been dramatized, yes

[@faithenichols6947]

I absolutely agree.

[@bo-yn3nm]

National Association for the Advancement of COLORED PEOPLE

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

Yep, I'll take this seriously as soon as the NAACP changes their name. People are simply pretending to be offended, as a way of controlling other people, which is SICK, because controlling other people is a hallmark of slavery. Disgusting!

[@joeyharper4976]

"bUt tHaTs diFfeReNt" 🥴

[@davidsun3814]

@@joeyharper4976damn if you guys could do like three minutes of reading you’d understand why it’s offensive

[@janomesteve3129]

Proud to be coloured

[@ThePriceMaster]

She literally asked to strike the NAACP from the record... LOL

[@BiggidyB]

Complaining? Waste of energy.

[@keithmartin3914]

The only thing I know is you are beautiful the color you are

[@CiriOfcentra-jl1fd]

Even scrolls?

[@marydoob]

I’ve never used the term “colored people”, to me it’s always sounded … just wrong … and obtuse.

[@parkerdavis1374]

White people are the one's who are colored. We turn all kinds of colors including brown, red, blue, purple, grayish, etc. Don't even argue with me

[@boom-jj9df]

This is very true 😂😂

[@larryforeman]

This is so true that is crazy Black is literally every color mixed together.White true definition is blank

[@mplussant]

…why call’em anything?…

[@AGirlNamedVan]

Its crazy how in South Africa mixed race people ..like me...are called coloured . I even tick it off in the race demographic box on forms out categories are black ,white , coloured, indian and other

[@LongbranchOlivetti]

The only reason I have a problem at all with this is because people who call themselves black are not really black at all, they're a shade of brown. And coloured people are coloured, as am I; we are all coloured. Let's just call each other people. And while we're at it, if you could all stop referring to each other as the N word and then pretending it is offensive, that would be great thank you. It's either offensive or it isn't. Note: I'm not american.

[@nonyabizness.original]

you might read up on our 'peculiar institution' and the reverberation of its repercussions till today before you do your rodney king impression.

[@TGreen89]

Mind your business

[@career5690]

Wtf is wrong with you?

[@joeyharper4976]

Black people will still praise NAACP though 😂

[@janomesteve3129]

Thank you

[@atum497]

This is not the Jim Crowe South

[@mr.turdlybird4387]

Can we stop saying people of color it means the exact same thing

[@HablaConOwens]

I called all my colored friends colored people. I mean it in a good way. White people too.

[@NotSoNotorious]

So you can say people of color but not colored people? Make it make sense

[@kathymeza3444]

We are all colored people Evey person is a color so what's the issue we are all colored people.

[@theodavis4087]

We don’t want you saying it at all.

[@drmartin5062]

Now if black people could look into other things with such curiosity that would improve their communitys’. Pretty sad this grifting going on

[@karlos_infamous]

I find it ridiculous that "People of color" is acceptable but "colored people" is not. Both terms have the same exact meaning, which means someone who is not white.

[@juanjimenez1853]

What does NAACP stand for.

[@larryforeman]

Jewish people

[@cornycorn8688]

what would people of African descent would like to be called that is not offensive?

[@emiliobello2538]

Blackish even said this

[@gavinmc5285]

dear ms, was he distinguishing between 'colored people' and 'black people' or was he synonymizing the terminology? regards, 'whitewash' (@1:03)

[@NPC2473]

I just say Black, or Chinese, or Mexican, or White, or Russian, or Indian.. so used in a sentence: My Black wife loves that im Mexican and make great tasting enchiladas for us and our 3 children

[@jazzyj6640]

European American is what I say

[@janinecox256]

He must be stuck and not thinking that he is in 1940

[@fordhill6646]

The Real Black People are people from Africa, Srilanka, and South India. The americans who call themselves as black are not Black, they are brown or as Eli correctly said, colored people. Look at this woman who is talking, does she looks black? and yet she want to put her foot in her mouth and spews hatred and chaos.

[@magichobbiest3425]

Ive never used colored people ever or the word with a gro at the end. Both are still widely used though. But i think its a virtue issue and some people just dont have particular virtues. No one told me any of these are wrong. Its just something i avoid saying. Cant comtrol speech and id be mad if it was because someone controlled my speech that i didn't use these terms. It would take away the virtue of not using them

[@uncle-bin1750]

20 years ago it was a big discussion if we should stop calling people black and start calling them "coloured". The reasoning behind that was that there are so many shades of skin colour. Yeah, it's somehow problematic to differentiate between white and all the others. I see the issue here. It's weird to to call everyone who doesn't look like milktoast "black" or "coloured".

[@Alritealritealrite]

If you say POC You are no better and years from now will be looked at just as bad.

[@Alritealritealrite]

​@@uncle-bin1750Exactly, and all these nonsensical terms now will be looked at as bad.

[@magichobbiest3425]

@@uncle-bin1750 I'm white

[@donkeydunkan24]

@@magichobbiest3425 then you Ben Affleck

[@tsdun1942]

And?

[@salsylexhagen7423]

NAACP

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I'll take this seriously, just about as soon as the NAACP changes their name...

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

What year was the NAACP created? Who created the NAACP?

[@joeyharper4976]

​@@CChrist-mh4mkThat's irrelevant. If the word "Colored" is truly offensive to black people, They would change the name and not have selective outrage.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@joeyharper4976no, it’s not. It’s not irrelevant at all.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@joeyharper4976you’re just mad I completely destroyed your point of view with two simple questions. Snowflake.

[@joeyharper4976]

@@CChrist-mh4mk So you admit you are a selective hypocrite then? 😂 Typical.

[@tommeahent2601]

Actually we are taught that white and black are not colors. They are shades. So maybe we can call each other the shady people 🤣🤣🤣

[@tiwanstrong1413]

Bruise me I'm black I cry I'm black I'm hot I am black I am cold I am black I am sick I'm black I'm angry I'm black I'm scared I'm black I'm dead I'm black.... SAME COLOR!!! NOW YOU on the other hand 🤔🤔🤔

[@JohnDudrey]

Being offended is a personal "choice".Too many sit,poised,waiting for the opportunity to cry like children.Grow up America

[@JohnDudrey]

Here here" Longbranch"

[@nonyabizness.original]

that we have to have a video with this title in 2023 says it all: racists are gone racism.

[@loriparks8657]

It seems like Tim Scott and Byron Donald's Clarence Thomas don't mind being called colored .

[@1eyedwilli3]

I’m a white person, but I’m not white. I’m peach baby.

[@Smokey348]

but calling them people of colour isn't?

[@PhilDrury]

A lot of us are looking for ways and metaphor to basically say "Well... Duh!" But let us both beat about the bush here. You're not "coloured" anymore, you're "a person of colour" according to everyone not at all racist. I mean never mind your history, culture, beliefs and hopes or personal identity... It's ok, you're a person of colour now, not a coloured!

[@mcmutty680]

Quick question. Can anyone tell me what NAACP stands for? 🤣

[@larryforeman]

It stands for Jewish people

[@Dane-cf6gl]

Yes but that is in America don't come and tell us here in south africa not to use coloured.

[@runaway_slav]

POC stands for what now? As someone that learned English as a Second Language, please understand that these shifting goalposts come off as insensitive and discounting my personal experience to my assimilation process to this great nation.

[@margeryk000]

No one is shifting the goal posts. "Colored Person/People" has been off the table since the 60's. POC is acceptable because it is a Personal Identity term. The person comes first.

[@dnrmoore4124]

​@@margeryk000for some one learning English it certainly is.

[@fatherson5907]

@@margeryk000the nonsense you wannabe victims come up with is entertaining

[@loki2240]

​@@dnrmoore4124- Language changes. That's just a reality. Socially-accepted language changes, as well (in every country). That's part of the difficulty in learning languages (including for native speakers), but concerns about that difficulty won't stop the changes. Nor should they.

[@dnrmoore4124]

@@loki2240 lame I find words offensive that r "ok" Soo no

[@kaancantenor7809]

Black men attacked the White Women too!!!

[@ConradDwight-wm8yt]

Grow up people.

[@JM1993951]

It’s not acceptable when used by anyone, but if you’re not wearing adult diapers, you have less than no excuse.

[@filmtheory783]

Colored people (mic drop)

[@top10sandthings]

that's why i listen to rap music cause we can drive by the blacks and have them call their own people call them the n word. ITS FUNNY That they think they cant be racist. THATS THE THING THAT MAKES THEM RACIST TOO. PLUS the bill wasnt about hindering any people from gettting in. but the black lady blew it up out of proportion to distract the real intention of what it helps. She made everyone hate whites because of it and wanted every black to feel that they just got called the n word again. Well shes the one that called them one not him. she used colors of all people in a derogatory term saying that colors only refer to black people. THAT IS RACISAT.

[@buckfutter99]

Lol what time to live. Life is so easy we are attacking words and feelings.

[@BeauFighter]

“You call me a Name, You’re a poo poo head >:( “

[@ythinder]

They are coloured, coloured black FFS

[@charlescann4433]

"Coloured people" no good, "People of colour" yes good, What is it about adding the of to a phase that makes it not racist? "Black people", Racist? "People of black" not racist?

[@latshunter]

Were all Indian AFRICANS

[@ThePriceMaster]

*People of color

[@sebcw1204]

How does this impact organizations that use older terminology in their titles? NAACP, UNCF, etc.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

Not at all. Why would it?

[@sebcw1204]

​@@CChrist-mh4mk i just want to know why we finally have started changing names of bases and taking down confederate statues but we haven't renamed organizations that use old racist terms?

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@sebcw1204 Black people created the NCAAP. Racists put up those confederate statues.

[@b.41879]

​@@sebcw1204how did you go from organizations that use older terminology in their titles to taking down confederate statues?

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

@@CChrist-mh4mk Either its problematic or it isn't. I'll take your word for it that it's not problematic.

[@patriciaparish9289]

Blah blah blah!

[@steadly3668]

I'll call them whatever I like. Thank you.

[@nonyabizness.original]

you just did: "them". and yet i'm sure you will claim you're not racist in the least.

[@KazumaSatouReal]

Really bro

[@joeyharper4976]

​@@nonyabizness.originalY'all offended by everything, Emotional. Oh no, I used the word "Y'all" 😱

[@heynowur9146]

@@joeyharper4976hEreS whY sAyinG y’All is pRobaLemAtic

[@isaac_aren]

In addition to the points raised here, this also falls into the same camp as using the term "native american". It's not offensive itself, but it can be over-inclusive. A lot prefer the term "American indian" as it is specific to them; native americans withitn the lower 48 states of the USA. Some still prefer "native american" same as some people still prefer "coloured person" but being specific is important in a political setting

[@prometheus6835]

I thought we weren't supposed to be using the word "Indian" because their not actually from India.

[@isaac_aren]

@@prometheus6835 No. I explained why it is prefered already

[@hubertmiskowiec897]

I prefer the word losers

[@monarchist1838]

Will the left drop the term ‘Latin X’?

[@aintnoslice3422]

some people love being offended and will use any excuse to play perpetual victims. Time to cancel the NAACP next.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

LOL. I love how you think your comment makes sense.

[@aintnoslice3422]

@@CChrist-mh4mk I love the misplaced arrogance of someone you thinks their politics makes them a good and smart person yet can't tell sarcasm from context clues.

[@joshuaDstarks]

@@aintnoslice3422are the clues it being a bad example of sarcasm?

[@b.41879]

​@@aintnoslice3422are you offended? You seem just a bit offended.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

@@b.41879 I don't see any offended people, except those who are pretending that NAACP isn't offensive, but CP is offensive.

[@skyqueen1148]

Get the chip off your shoulder, and get a life. Rep. Crane should be recalled for not having a stiffer spine.

[@hugh-jasole]

"problematic" the new buzzword for race hustlers

[@tylerhovind7187]

nOw ThIs iS nEwS 🥱🥱🥱

[@neofulcrum5013]

Indeed, we are not a box of crayons

[@globe-tard707]

Why are they so offended about a word they have never heard the term sticks and stones? They call each other niggas so why are they so offended by something so small and nonsensical

[@RichardKeeton]

Why do dye your hair white 🤧🤔

[@MrEkzotic]

I just call them people.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

You definitely don't.

[@MrEkzotic]

@@CChrist-mh4mk Sure I do.

[@KazumaSatouReal]

The only valid comment here

[@heynowur9146]

Sup my person

[@MrEkzotic]

@@heynowur9146 lol

[@damitzdesign]

😂😂😂

[@Discipleofyeshuahamaschiach]

Ok. But let’s just make sure through all this we don’t side with the democrats black people it’s all I ask if you have any self respect!

[@goodanytimej8688]

Ive heared colored is problematic, black is problematic, african american, afro american, and even person of color Normally its fine to just say the persons name. But if somone is asking you to describe sombody to them to see if they know who your talking about, i feel like if i ask 10 different ppl i feel like 8 out of 10 say "just say black or person of color" and then there 2 who have wholly singular descriptors they would prefer i use to describe the the fact that their skin has more melanin than mine. And i feel that the ppl who prefer that are usually the ones that brings this up. I want to respect whatever sombody wants to be called, their descriptor, pronouns, what have you. But i dont think i should get in trouble if somone asks "hey which tim were you talking about last night?" And both tims are the same height and build, and i go "black tim or darker Tim" i will admit "colored tim" gives me an uncomfortable feeling so i wouldnt use that, so maybe there IS a point here, but i do feel like there are some much more serious and impactful racial issues we could be focusing on than this one. Just one mans (kind of overblown) opinion lol

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

Good job admitting you’re racist!

[@goodanytimej8688]

@CChrist-mh4mk right, talk to my kid about that. Way to be pathetic, u didn't even read what I said if u think that kiddo

[@joshuaDstarks]

People volleying their opinions at you isn’t you “getting into trouble”, goober.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@goodanytimej8688I did read what you said. You’re racist.

[@thatotherguy1529]

There’s a lot of points she got wrong but the big thing is how about we just start saying ladies and gentlemen when we refer to a large group of people it worked for many years what’s so different now and also the is actually isn’t discriminate against because they don’t care they need more people so they ignore all that and look at skills and abilities like every other job in the world

[@jackaljade]

"Ladies and gentlemen" - then the non binarys would complain.

[@MrSinEon]

Ladies and gentlemen is super problematic and not inclusive at all

[@thatotherguy1529]

@@MrSinEon who cares all of those genders that are not either man or woman don’t exist in the first place it’s not being rude or disrespectful if it doesn’t even exist

[@dale4853]

Don’t see the problem. They are colored.

[@jackaljade]

Can we talk about how "they/them" are problematic?? No matter how many times anyone says they've always been used to refer to a singular person, it's still sounds weird if the context isn't just right. It sounds like the singular person you're referring to has a multiple split personality disorder.

[@joshuaDstarks]

This sounds like a personal problem. Maybe you have a disorder?

[@Alritealritealrite]

Why talk about it when none of this is logical? POC is literally the same thing as the phrase that they're mad about.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

It’s not problematic at all. I’m sorry you have such a terrible grasp of the English language.

[@jackaljade]

@@CChrist-mh4mk - says the person who wants to keep the N word alive!! 😂

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@jackaljade you want to decide whether or not black people can use the N word. You’re white.

[@kcmc3615]

More Kool aid please

[@jamiejack764]

Still unclear why its a problem so i will continue

[@MKultraInstinct]

Did the President tell people they weren’t black if they didn’t vote for him?

[@johndasilva2686]

Relax all colours are a colour, including white. However the biggest serious joke is, their are no black or white people. African Americans Caribbean’s and Africans ( not North Africans) are all different shades of brown. Europeans are all different shades of pink.. Doubt me? Compare tins of black and white paint to both skin colours .

[@blowitoutyourcunt7675]

I must be the only one who says colored and means everybody who ain't white. It's not denigrating to colored folks just delineating whom I'm speaking about. *Colored Lady who ain't offended by the word colored.

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

LOL. What you're doing is racist.

[@joshuaDstarks]

Zzzzzzzzzz

[@b.41879]

One's own words and even username can be revealing about oneself.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

It can't be all that bad, if the NAACP hasn't changed their name. I mean THEY CHOSE the name, in the first place...

[@CChrist-mh4mk]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 I love how you're openly admitting to not understanding how languages work.