return of "colored"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Once trendy? Once trendy?

You too need to watch more TV news!

BTW, I've raised my estimation of the cartoon to triple dumb, because it
was double dumb from the jump.

JL

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> I wonder if users of the once-trendy term "people of color" have had any
> inclination to adjectivize the noun phrase as, simply, "colored"?
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> --Charlie
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> On 3/29/12 12:02 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > Date:    Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:02:06 -0400
> > From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: return of "colored"
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> > It's double dumb. (The little girl's wearing a totemic football on her
> > shirt, but I don't mean that.)
> >
> > The left-wing, PC, moralizing, Obama-linked, lamestream
> > Yankee-Jew media would*never*  refer to a "young black male" as a
> "colored
> > boy," "handsome" or otherwise.
> >
> > That cartoonist needs to watch more TV news!
> >
> > PS: If you can trust Google Books (and in this case you can because I
> > checked with the NY Times) Jessica Tandy was the original "vision of
> > alabaster loveliness" as Abigail Masham in the play "Anne of England,"
> > which opened on Broadway on October 7, 1941.
> >
> > JL
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> I just remarked on a student paper's that "colored" is an old-fashioned
> term and so should be avoided. But then I had to think about the "C" in
> NAACP: is it not marked there?
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> ---Amy West
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