return of "colored"

[Amy West]

On 4/1/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> I sure enough hope that you-all come to a conclusion, soon. My birth
> certificate, an official document of the state of Texas issued in
> nineteen thirty-something or another, clearly states, "Race of Child:
> Colored."
>
> If_Colored_  is good enough for Texas, then it's good enough for me.
>
> "Don't Mess With Texas!"
>
> --
> -Wilson

Wilson, I'd appreciate your perspective: if you were reading a student's
essay and saw the phrase -

I know for a fact that down South in Mississippi the
colored have a different language

- would you remark that it is an old-fashioned term?

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---Amy West

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