Tim May wrote...
"Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?"
Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard.
I hear them using this _frequently_. Just about any time I see a fat negro chick on one of the talk shows (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) I can count on her using the phrase "blahblah of color" several times.
Likewise with "physically challenged". My black karate Sensei used to periodically laugh at the shame and embarassment associated with any speech "coloration"...to the point where some people won't even mention skin color when describing another person.
Again, I hear the cripples using the phrases "physically challenged" _frequently_.
It's not enough that cripples always get the best parking places, by law, but they want all "Handicapped" signs replaced with more PC terms.
(I may start pulling cores on their tires after seeing so many apparently-fully-mobile persons getting out of their cars and vans with the "Handicapped" placards. Here in California, an entire industry of scammers and willing doctors has emerged to get more and more people declared "Disabled" and thus eligible for the special placards and, of course, taxpayer-paid-for free stuff.)
--Tim May
