I was cruising through these opinions today when I saw this posting. I coudn't help but envisioning the poster as a small-framed man in square-rimmed glasses and a bow-tie. The poster was angry over the use of the term "colored" in the NAACP name, I guess he thought it was bigoted . . . then it occured to me that he was right, but for a different reason!

If you look at black people (and I love 'em), they usually have medium - dark brown skin, dark hazel - dark brown eyes, brown - black hair. Beautiful people, but not exactly "colored".
Nor exactly "black", I guess.

But what about us white people? Again, not exactly "white". Your garden-variety white person comes in a variety of combinations: Blond, red, brown, black hair. Green, blue, hazel, brown eyes. Peach, olive, brown, pasty, freckly skin, etc.

Should it not be we so-called "white" people who are called colored? Remember the color spectrum, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet? Last I checked, we "white" people have all them colors. Shouldn't we be called "colored"? We are colored, for damn sure! So, I agree with the poster. Please stop calling him colored! He surely doesn't want to be lumped in with us colored folks, especially given his deep-seeded, ignorance-based hatred of us.

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