Glenn Beck: Is Calling African-American "Colored" Really Such A Bad Thing?
Glenn Beck: Is The Term “Colored” Really Such A Bad Thing?
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck tackled a particularly sticky issue when it comes to race. How does it make any sort of sense, he wanted to know, to refer to all Black persons as “African American,” particularly when so many Black individuals don’t live in the U.S.?
Beck notes that, in South Africa, recognized races and ethnicities include Black and “colored” (Wikipedia explains the term thusly): “In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruin Afrikaners in Afrikaans) refers to an ethnic group of mixed race people who often possess some sub-Saharan African ancestry but not enough to be considered Black, either by themselves or by others.”)
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