Reply With QuoteWhy do black people now want to be known as people of colour?
I can remember getting told ages ago that they wasn't black but coloured,then after that they wasn't coloured but black and now they are people of colour?
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A poet and musician of ethnic origins was on the BBC news this morning. I wonder to what degree the BBC foments the fracturing of society, and fuels every divide it comes across.
And pours petrol on fires.
Its pretty dam n good at it.
Richard of Burleigh street.
p.s, I am of an ethic background, I don't have an anglo saxon, celtic, norman bone in my body. The problem is im white.
Everything we say or do is wrong. Even when were right and trying to help.
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Why do black people now want to be known as people of colour?
I can remember getting told ages ago that they wasn't black but coloured,then after that they wasn't coloured but black and now they are people of colour?
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