Colored People and People of Color are two different things. Colored People was ...

		zuminator on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banning words won’t make the world more just Colored People and People of Color are two different things. Colored People was the polite term for blacks 60+ years ago. People of Color means nonwhite. Also, side point, the founders of NAACP included both black, white, and at least one person (Mary Church Terrell) that we would in 2023 consider mixed race. And initially it was predominately led by white Americans.

As a non native speaker I would have never known this. Learned something today!