Why are non-Caucasians called "people of color"?

Guy, once again, for your own sake, please seek help. You are not well. You are living in your own private world which, I’m sorry, is completely disassociated from reality.

Hilarious! This meltdown gets a 9 out of 10 from me. The return of Ted Koppel - classic move. :slight_smile:

Yes, Hippy. This is going to be classic Straight Dope. :smiley:

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You can make jokes because it wasn’t your kid, or you. …

… can kid because it wasn’t my joke:

At the risk of fanning the flames…

Guy I do remember the death of Kime because I was in Seattle at the time and he was a FOAF to one of my coworkers.

He was in the party-stupid-central area of Seattle on a night when many stupid partiers were out. Which in no way excuses what happened to him but there were lots of people there. If things had gone differently, he could have been beaten to death by white partiers from the suburbs.

I don’t think there was ever the racial component to his death that you are trying to attach to it. Mobs are dumb, in general - the color of the mob makes no difference.

What I can’t figure out is why GuyNBlueJeans would be worrying about falling from a position of “power and prestige.”

I use the expression people of color because of a cosmetics counter at a department store. The products were for “women of color.” That’s what the sign said and that’s the term the sales woman used. She was lovely and elegant and I bought three or four lipsticks from her that probably weren’t right for my skin color because of the way they looked on her. I’ve always associated the expression with her and I think of beautiful people when I use it.

At one time I thought that it offended a friend here and quit using it. I had misunderstood her though. I don’t use it out of racism, but I realize that perhaps where you live, other people may use it that way. If Oprah uses it, it can’t be too anti-Black.

GuyNBlueJeans, complaining about the “lies” that are perpetuated in the newspapers isn’t going to do much good as long as you continue to fabricate nonsense yourself. (Kimberly Leach was not killed with a baseball bat.)

What a fun thread…

I hear “People of Color” occasionally and, of course, it refers to people who aren’t white. I don’t see a problem with it.

As for GuyNblueJeans, he can call me a liberal all he wants, all I’d like is to be anything he isn’t.

GuyNBlueJeans, have you ever read about the study on the guestlist of Nightline? Two men spent ten years studying just about every possible aspect of the Nightline guestlist and the transcripts of 865 programs that covered a 40 month period from 1965 to 1988.

From an article about the study:

I was surprised to see who his four most frequent guests were. You may be too. Are you sure you don’t like Koppel?

*Submit * yourself? I think we’ve found the root problem, here. Can we find a nice dom for GuyNblueJeans, please?

Were I mean person I might point out that by melting down in this way - twice now - Guy has lost all his dignity. Which, of course, makes him inhuman. But hey, don’t worry! If you’re not human, that means you have nothing to lose by masturbating up a storm! Go, crazy racist lying guy, go!

And who talks like this?

I hope you people get the world you want to live in … and I get mine.

Nothing more to say. Have a nice enternity.

Ah, clearly Guy is angling for his own recurring column, Ask the BEAUTIFUL CAUCASION!!!

If only. Because dude, seriously… you’re just boring me now.

Look! a black man behind you!

BOO!!

Yeah, and he confusing me. I thought Ted Koppel was GuyNblueJeans’ hero. I mean, isn’t Koppel suppose to break the evening news about the Caucasian conspiracy? :confused:

This is cutest part of his posts. He seems to want to insult people really badly. He seems to want to make them feel bad, but he just doesn’t have the knack. It is like when a five year old gets really angry, but doesn’t yet know words bad enough to express how he feels and just calls people “poopy pants” in the most earnest hate-filled voice he can muster.

This guy is like a white supremacist Care Bear, with about the intellectual depth.

I wish!! How about just a thread in MPSIMS? I can’t wait.

At least my world won’t consist of padded walls.

And hearing…

Yep. Others have already come to this conclusion: GuyNblueJeans is on drugs

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Don’t you mean “Bletch”?