The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) must be REALLY offensive!
ITV were forced to apologise today after a reporter covering a Downing Street football racism summit twice referred to black players as 'coloured'.
Following the ITV broadcast, dozens of viewers objected to the uses of the term 'coloured' on Twitter.
An ITV spokeswoman said they were sorry and the recording should never have gone out.
Using the term 'coloured' to refer to black people is considered offensive because it dismisses everyone who is not white as the same. The term was in widespread use in Britain in the 1960s but is now considered racist. The problem is it suggests white people are white and everyone else is 'coloured'. There is no recognition that everyone has their own ethnic origin. [So what race you are is important?? I thought that was "racism"!]
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Some very confused thinking above. Africans must not be confused with Indians? I agree with that but would normally be accused of racial discrimination for saying so. Yet above such distinctions seem to be demanded and regarded as important. But logic doesn't seem to work on political correctness. It's all just an emotional kneejerk.
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welll ... duh!!! That's why we refer to Indians as either "dots" or "feathers."
bwahahahahahahahaha
Shouldnt black appoligise for forcing their radical ideas on us?
And I'm offended by being dismissively referred to as "white" when it covers so many other ethnic groups and implicitly disrespects my ancestry and heritage!!!
The only thing this story is about is someone using outdated terminology.
People of african descent used to legitimately be called Negroes. Then they were coloured.
Now apparently they are black.
Obviously the ITV reporter made the unforgivable sin of not getting the memo to update his dictionary.
Soon "black" will be regarded as a racist term (and lumps all shades of skin color other than "white" to the darkest possible description).
"all shades of skin color "
Why don't we just refer to people by a color specification, such as the CIEL*a*b* color system? or those color swatches found in the paint department of Home Depot? The funny thing is that nobody will actually be white (CIELab 100, 0, 0).
"Beware of those who chant slogans, for they will follow the next Hitler"
Beware of those who mention Hitler for they will fall foul of Godwin's Law!
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