Originally Posted by
upthemaggies
I can remember hearing the word "coloured" when it was still apparently more acceptable than "black", TV newsreaders and documentary voice-overs would use it, but not since early 1980s, maybe a touch earlier. I would have thought we all knew to avoid "coloured" by the turn of the century. The waters have been muddied recently however as we are now increasingly seeing/hearing the phrase "people of colour" (POC) and that's not a problem. So this chap has at least partly had to step down for saying two words the wrong way around.