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**softy54534** · 09-28-2011, 11:54 PM

it means your black. case closed..

i really don't understand why black is no longer considered acceptable to say on news channels.. its alot less syllables than african american and yet you convey the same thing when you say it.

edit: habesha pointed out that colored didn't always mean just black but when people refer to "people of color" they are almost always talking about blacks. i've never really heard hispanics referred as such unless they were black hispanics.

It might be because "black" is quite broad. It includes a lot of different ethnic groups, not just Aframs.

For example, if a news channel is talking about a study, say on health, done on Aframs, it would not be correct to say "black" because the study was specifically targeting Aframs and by saying "blacks" they would have included other "black" non-Afram ethnic groups, who would not have participated in the study, since it was just about Aframs. So, it wouldn't be conveying the same message.

09-28-2011, 11:54 PM	#18
softy54534 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,457 Senior Member	it means your black. case closed.. i really don't understand why black is no longer considered acceptable to say on news channels.. its alot less syllables than african american and yet you convey the same thing when you say it. edit: habesha pointed out that colored didn't always mean just black but when people refer to "people of color" they are almost always talking about blacks. i've never really heard hispanics referred as such unless they were black hispanics. It might be because "black" is quite broad. It includes a lot of different ethnic groups, not just Aframs. For example, if a news channel is talking about a study, say on health, done on Aframs, it would not be correct to say "black" because the study was specifically targeting Aframs and by saying "blacks" they would have included other "black" non-Afram ethnic groups, who would not have participated in the study, since it was just about Aframs. So, it wouldn't be conveying the same message.
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