'People of Color' as a "minority" . Thoughts?
I can agree that the term "people of color" is used by an overshadowed vocal minority, but to whom the phrase refers to aren't, statisically, a "minority".
It's another misnomer which I feel we've used towards each other to inadvertently displace ourselves as insignificantly numbered outcasts, and we use it interchangably with words that actually have weight: overshadowed, marginalized, etc.
We are minorities contextually, but when it really comes down to it, aggregated linguistically, globally, we are a quite powerful majority. Let's give ourselves some credit!
It's another misnomer which I feel we've used towards each other to inadvertently displace ourselves as insignificantly numbered outcasts, and we use it interchangably with words that actually have weight: overshadowed, marginalized, etc.
We are minorities contextually, but when it really comes down to it, aggregated linguistically, globally, we are a quite powerful majority. Let's give ourselves some credit!
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