person of color poll

[gsh]

While listening to the talking heads last night discuss Sotomayor, one of them referred to her as a "woman of color". This struck me as weird. I'd like to find out of other people think this is weird, or normal.


[Poll #1406585]

Comments

[papertigers.livejournal.com]

As a "person of color", I honestly prefer black.

they're not mutually exclusive. if I'm speaking of myself as an individual member of a specific ethnic group or of peoples of the African diaspora as a group, I generally say Black as well; saying "people of color" when I meant only Black people would be rather disingenuous. I don't like "Afro/African-American "either, never have. I'm developed an affection for "Negro" in certain contexts, but only when used by Black people (I've been reading a lot of classic Black American literature lately).