The Joke being that all of Gareth’s words are also un-PC (except ‘women’)
I just watched that movie last week, and I was fascinated that they used the terms “negro,” “colored,” and “black” pretty much interchangeably throughout the movie.
Regarding Lohan, I’m equally fascinated that the term “colored” even registers as a term to use for someone her age. Weird.
We’re too niggardly to do that.
Yeah, I agree with that part, she was talking spontaneously in an interview so errors are inevitable. My bet is that she heard someone use the phrase “person of color” recently and was trying to imitate that. She’s a young pretty actress, after all, so I wonder if natural, less-guarded speech is more what is expected of her in interviews.
I like to refer to them as “of colored” people.
But, apparently, not to the NAACP.
Technically, he is colored. Excuse me, Coloured. So? Or are you arguing that pinkish tan is a color?
coloured!
:rolleyes:
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I am a bit older than you, and I can remember[ul][li]colored[]Negro[]Afro-American[]black[]Black (yes, that’s different)person of color[/ul]And I have had people tell me that “colored person” is offensive but “person of color” was OK. [/li][/QUOTE]
“Person of color” or “people of color” doesn’t just refer to African-Americans, but to all ethnic minorities in the United States, including Latinos, Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders, etc.
Maybe it’s just my age (early-mid 20s), my upbringing, and my location, but the idea of “colored person” being okay in this day and age is pretty strange. At the same time, it looks like Lindsay Lohan just didn’t had a slip of the tongue when she probably meant to say “person of color”, so this is all just much ado about nothing.
I’m 26 and I think this whole thread is ridiculous.
While ‘colored’ isn’t the first term I would think of, if I did think of it I wouldn’t expect a backlash. Except insomuch as I would expect a certain amount of backlash over anything having to do with races at all. I seriously hate the absurd levels of racial sensitivity in this country. It is understandable due to the US’s volatile racial history, but still absurd in this day and age.
Seriously? Obama is black? Let’s talk about it nonstop for 4 fucking years then!
Oh, some mayor nobody ever heard of said the word “niggardly”, which happens to have the same first two syllables as a racial slur, but is otherwise a totally legitimate word? That motherfucker’s a racist!
Oh, Lindsay Lohan talks out of her ass and refers to black people using a word that is prominently displayed in the name of the oldest institution dedicated to furthering their race? That ignorant, racist bitch! Who does she think she is? :rolleyes:
Jesus, can’t we just switch to something else now? Can we spend the next few centuries hating each other because of our hair color, or our favorite foods or something? This shit is getting real old.
Colored wasn’t acceptable when I was a child, and I’m 41.
I seriously doubt that LL is a racist. The most interesting thing about this kerfuffle is that she apparently has a very archaic vocabulary.
She’s what, 23? She looks 40.
I mentioned it in some other thread but I met her once on an airplane and helped her with a bag. That was about four years ago, I think. She was, in person, staggeringly beautiful. Now she looks like a pool hall strumpet. In four years.
[George Carlin]
That sounds like something you’d see on mushrooms.
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Sorry, I miss the cranky old fart.
I think she tried to apply the terminology of the phrase “person of color” in the syntax of “first black president.” The thought process probably went, “He’s the first black president. But ‘person of color’ works better than ‘black’ in that thought. I’ll say he’s the first person of color president–no, president of color–that’s not right either–he’s the first colored president. That sounds right.” Of course all of that was just half a thought in the space between opening her mouth and saying the words. It’s the sort of thing I do all the time. It’s like saying “grood” when you start to say great and then decide on good.
It’s a dual diagnosis.
I figured that Lee used the phrase “Negro soldiers” because that’s what the polite term would have been for such people during World War II. Similarly, Jackie Robinson was hailed in 1947 (two years after WWII ended) as “the first Negro in the major leagues”*, since Robinson had played Negro League baseball before signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
I was born in 1959, and remember reading that Haiti was “the world’s first Negro republic” and hearing that Thurgood Marshall had just become “the first Negro on the Supreme Court”. My mother’s parents, who had voted Socialist in presidential elections and were devoted to the rights of minorities, used the term “Negro”. My father’s mother (a widow since before I started school) was somewhat less enlightened, and employed the term “(the) colored” when she wasn’t using one of various Czech synonyms thereof.
As a result, I’ve always considered “colored” old-fashioned and cringed a little when I heard it used to describe people. Meanwhile, I still have no problem with “Negro”, even though the term “black” (as opposed to “Black”) is my “default”. “African-American” is the natural terminology for some speakers, but I generally only use it in direct quotes or if I’ve already used “black” and “Negro” in a piece of writing and wish to add another synonym to the mix.
- I realize that Moses Fleetwood Walker played in the American Association (then a major league) in 1884, and that other big-leaguers who preceded Robinson are thought to have been “passing” for white, but Jackie did break the color line which had stood so long that he was, for all practical purposes, deserving of the accolades he received as “The First”.
I used to frequent a bookstore that had a poster that said, and I paraphrase as closely as I remember: “White people turn red when they’re hot, green when they’re sick, blue when they’re cold, pink when they’re embarrassed–and they call us colored?!”
The name of the bookstore was “Hue-Man Experience” but it had a preponderance of literature about, and of interest to, people from Africa.
Oh, and Lindsay Lohan is spotted.
Right, because Gareth’s dad isn’t the hip, cosmopolitan guy that Gareth is. 
It’s funny, as soon as I read the OP, that particular scene from The Office was the first thing I thought of.