Black and white people.

[SpecialInterests]

Have you ever found yourself wondering about black and white people? Have you ever noticed that we're not actually black and white? We're more like peach/tan and brown. Language can always tell you things. There is always hidden messages in language. Have you ever thought of why we're actually called black and white people? Black and White are complete opposites. Simple. Black and white could never be mixed up. The people that run this show want blacks and whites to be seperated. They want to create the illusion that we are complete opposites. Keep the racism and stereotypes rollin'. I was also thinking of this politically correct language bullshit thats being thrown around. Apparently the correct term for black people now is "people of colour". Have you ever looked into deep space? what do you see? Blackness. Black is the absence of light. Light is colour. So wouldn't the correct term be "people of no colour"? Besides. Are they trying to say that I - a fair skinned peachy tan dude - has no colour? This offends me. I have colour! I demand change!

[Venomblood]

You're kind of contradicting yourself.

[Grod]

Yeah you are contradicting yourself. But they call Indians or Hispanics brown people, and Asians yellow, so it's whatever. Brown and white ain't opposites, so Indian-Caucasian relationships a-ok? You decide.

[Jeff777]

If I'm not mistaken...Europeans are the first who started calling those who are NOW called african americans...black. They did this way back when and why? Your guess is as good as mine...me thinks the time back then. And yeah you're right...labeling races to a distinct color is bullshit in my opinion, but just the same...I don't get offended if someone refers to me as black. Though I'm more on the brown/mocha chocolate side ^_^. Wesley Snipes, however, is black. Seriously...if you played a game of hide and seek with him at night...all you'd see are teeth and eyes. Btw, I thought blackness was the totality of color, not the absence of it. Whereas white was thought of as devoid of color at all. And people of color isn't an exclusive term to black people, it's addressed to "all people of color" meaning non-whites. Btw, yeah it did always kind of bother me that people referred to an entire race of people by a word used to describe things "Unholy" or "evil". Like black plague, black death, black mambo (which isn't even black ) And things like white this and white that were always seen as holy. It's no wonder why there was racism back then...the stigmas attached to those words for as you put it "people of color" were horrible! Just the same though...I don't think the intent is offensive if you are referred to as black, yellow, purple etc.