"communities of color"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Asians are absolutely "people of color" in my experience. Also Native
Americans and Native Pacific Islanders.

Everyone except Caucasians.

JL

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Ooops! Are Asians people of color? Maybe Hispanics--I'm not sure--but I wouldn't have included Asians...
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> Wiktionary backs it up (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/person_of_color): "(US, politically correct) A non-white person."
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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> On Feb 19, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
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>> =46rom the NY Times, 2/18:
>>> To the Sports Editor:
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>>> 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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