"People Of Color" Is A Racist Term: And P.S. My Black Neighbor Also Needs Her Sleep
David Horowitz writes at Front Page about why identity politics are anti-American. He turns a light on the grammatically awkward term, "people of color":
What is the purpose of using this ungrammatical phrase at all? To understand it, consider Mexico. Mexico is a country composed mainly of two ethnic groups -- the descendants of the Spanish conquistadors, who slaughtered the indigenous Indians; and the descendants of the survivors of their conquest, the indigenous Indians. But when the conquistadors and the Indians cross the American border, they're all suddenly "people of color," therefore oppressed; therefore entitled to privileges and benefits, and the enormous allowances that we are supposed to make for them as putative victims.Maharajahs in India are persons of color. Beheaders in Raqqa and Syria and Iraq are persons of color. The Japanese imperial soldiers who raped and pillaged their way through Asia are persons of color. Sudanese slavers are persons of color. And so are the Islamists everywhere. You wonder why liberals in this country are so sympathetic to Islamists who regard us as infidels - inferiors - and want to kill us? Because they are people of color.
And who are not people of color? The only people who are not people of color are white people. In other words, white people are oppressors; white people are evil. That's what the bastard phrase "people of color" really means, and why it is racist.
Ultimately, this:
Everybody deserves to be judged by who they are and what they have done, not by their skin color or gender.
That last line reminds me of a little incident the other day.
I had a guy tell me the other day that he hates white people. A black guy saying this to Wite-Out-white me -- as in, he hates white-faced me.
Why would he say such a thing?
Because he was BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!ing his megabass car stereo right across from my house and my neighbors' homes at 10:30 p.m., and I went out to say, "Hey, this is a neighborhood here. People who wake up for work early are sleeping -- or going to sleep."
Apparently, only white people engage in the racist act of sleeping.
Another guy -- also black -- came over to tell him to cool it (because he was yelling at me), and he walked away. Had a great talk with the other guy about people who engage in low-blow arguing and how amazed I was -- as someone who, P.S. has always cared about civil rights and civil liberties for all (man, woman, black, white, whatever) -- that the guy would go there.
I guess it's easier to snarl that you hate white people than to be accountable -- say that horrible statement, "Sorry, I wasn't mindful..." -- that people sometimes say when I point out that they're waking us up or keeping us up with their BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! stereos.
Really, I see this as a character tests -- how people react when I point out that, no, we who live here don't want you to announce your arrival by BOOMING us in our living rooms. (This particular guy -- the white people hater -- had his car stereo on so loud, with his car window open, that it was vibrating my windows.)
PS Dude, there's a black girl on my block you were keeping awake, too. Does that change anything?








Vox Day had a post a while back about virtually identical twitter comments with the races reversed.
First tweet: "I fucking hate white people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Trump. Fuck you!" 1:57 AM 9 Nov 2016
Twitter response to first tweet: "Thank you for reporting this issue to us. Our goal is to create a safe environment for everyone on Twitter to express themselves freely. We reviewed your report carefully and found that there was no violation of Twitter's Rules regarding abusive behavior."
Follow up tweet: "I fucking hate black people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Clinton. Fuck you!" 4:08 AM 16 Nov 2016
Twitter response to follow up tweet: "We've investigated and suspended the account you reported as it was found to be participating in abusive behavior."
Both tweets are horrid, but that's the point. Some people can only see wrong when done by those they don't agree with (or pander to).
Trust at December 17, 2016 6:38 AM
No, only white people have jobs and care about keeping them and being on time to them in the morning.
Boom-Boom apparently doesn't have a job and no one in his circle has one either, so in his worldview, the only people with jobs are white people. Screw them.
He needs to expand his worldview to include black people with jobs and white people without jobs. Then, and only then, he might see that how he defines the world is wrong and myopic.
The heart of racism (in either direction) is a deliberately limited worldview.
Conan the Grammarian at December 17, 2016 7:48 AM
In a grammatical twist, there are still places in the U.S. where you can get your ass beat for referring to "colored people".
The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2044 non-Hispanic whites will be a minority group. Right now persons-of-color have some entitlements and special privileges. If they retain those when they are a majority, will that make them the oppressors? I'd say they are headed down that road already.
Canvasback at December 17, 2016 8:03 AM
"Right now persons-of-color have some entitlements and special privileges."
Some?
"It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the population, the least productive, most criminal, and most dependent on governmental charity, should dominate national politics. Yet they do. Virtually everything revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can’t do. Their power seems without limit.
Courses of instruction in the schools, academic rigor, codes of dress, rules regarding unceasing obscenity, all must be set to suit them, as must be examinations for promotion in fire departments, the military, and police forces. Blacks must be admitted to universities for which they are not remotely qualified, where departments of Black Studies must be established to please them. Corporate work forces, federal departments, and elite high-schools must be judged not on whether they perform their functions but on whether they have the right number of blacks."
All of this in the face of the plain fact that "African-American" is a manufactured term covering more area and more diversity than most of the rest of the world - a term designed to convey political power in the USA to those who would wield it.
Radwaste at December 17, 2016 8:15 AM
"Boom-Boom apparently doesn't have a job"
Boom-Boom drives a pretty nice, pretty new looking BMW sedan with a personalized plate. He looked not only employed, but well-employed. He was also nicely groomed and dressed and kind of handsome -- until his mouth unleashed all those ugly words.
Amy Alkon at December 17, 2016 9:15 AM
In fact, it seems his car is a 2015 or 2016, judging by the plate color -- the black California "legacy plate" they started putting out again in 2015.
http://www.lamag.com/driver/the-colorful-history-of-california-license-plates/
It's possible he ordered the plate for an older model, but his sedan did look pretty new and spiffy.
Amy Alkon at December 17, 2016 9:17 AM
I make a ongoing series of anti-Social Justice Warrior videos on YouTube (and out of respect for our hostess, I will not link them here). One such video, which I directed to black people, I said that I would never use the term "people of color."
The term simply means, "anyone except white people." So, I said in my video that I'll call it what it is: non-whites.
Patrick at December 17, 2016 9:20 AM
And what did the driver say to the other black man, if anything?
Had the black pedestrian been the only one to complain about the noise, I wonder what type of people the driver would have claimed to hate. "Losers" who don't have a BMW anywhere in sight, maybe. Or "fogeys" who make reasonable demands, even if the complainers appear to be in their teens.
lenona at December 17, 2016 9:23 AM
I'm a person of color. It's a delightful beige-y pink.
BlogDog at December 17, 2016 3:13 PM
The black girl on your block is obviously an Oreo (black on the oustide, white on the inside), so the obnoxious black man's comment is still valid. /sarc
mpetrie98 at December 17, 2016 3:19 PM
"Mexico is a country composed mainly of two ethnic groups -- the descendants of the Spanish conquistadors, who slaughtered the indigenous Indians; and the descendants of the survivors of their conquest, the indigenous Indians"
The wording of this really bugs me. It's not two ethnic groups. Most of mexico is composed of an identity of a third ethnic group: mestizo or landino a mix between the two.
He's making it seem like like Americans tend to do between blacks and whites with the one drop rule. I've noticed Americans do this alot with race but that's not how race is perceived in Latin America. There is no "either or" in Latin America.
There is no one drop rule in Mexico. So no most Mexicans dont perceive themselves as one or the other. Indigenous people are perceived as something wholly independent of them, separate and from what I've seen not in a positive light. That's different here where black people like Halley Berry still perceive themselves as black (in Latin American she wouldn't,).
Pure whites are only 10% of the population. Pure Indians are 20%. Both of those groups rarely come to the U.S.
People of color is a stupid term but when you can't even get shit right about why people use for it Mexicans it annoys me. They use it for Mexicans because most Mexicans don't perceive themselves as white, including white looking Mexicans like Jorge Ramos.
Ppen at December 17, 2016 3:47 PM
> The wording of this really bugs me.
Relax. It gets a lot worse than that.
Crid at December 18, 2016 6:37 AM
"PS Dude, there's a black girl on my block you were keeping awake, too. Does that change anything?"
Probably not. He'd just use a different set of insults.
Cousin Dave at December 19, 2016 9:11 AM
The 600 odd Spanish gold-fiends did not defeat the millions of Aztecs and their buddies by themselves - they had the assistance of about 100,000 other locals who hated the Aztecs worse than the Spaniards. After the conquest many local chiefs who helped the Spaniards were rewarded with large land grants and Spanish names like Don Pedro. So if the new Don Pedro wastes some of his local enemies, it gets blamed on the Spaniards.
If you want to know what happened, an excellent book by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an officer with the gold-fiends, is an eyewitness account:
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 and 2 at the link and in various downloadable formats:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35868
Jay J. Hector at December 19, 2016 4:12 PM
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