"communities of color"

[Benjamin Barrett]

Ooops! Are Asians people of color? Maybe Hispanics--I'm not sure--but I wouldn't have included Asians...

Wiktionary backs it up (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/person_of_color): "(US, politically correct) A non-white person."

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Feb 19, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:

> =46rom the NY Times, 2/18:
>> To the Sports Editor:
>> =20
>> We in the Asian American community are proud of Jeremy Lin=92s =
> success, just as communities of color celebrated with pride when Jackie =
> Robinson broke into baseball and Barack Obama became president.
>> =20
>> As an educator, however, I am disheartened but not surprised to read =
> that Jeremy Lin was taunted by racial slurs while playing Ivy League =
> basketball. Most disheartening is that coaches and university and =
> student athletic leaders failed to do something about it.....
>> =20
>> Joyce Moy
>> =20
>> New York
>> =20
>> =20
> The writer is the executive director of the Asian American/Asian =
> Research Institute at City University of New York.
>
> How common is it to regard "X of color" as excluding Asians?

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