Is it seen as racist or non-pc to refer to someone as 'coloured'?

[scrummyyummy]

What is the correct terminology these days? I'm sure I heard on the ITV lunch time news today the reporter talking about the recent racism row between the football players and he used the term 'coloured coaches'.

[jno]

sounds a little odd - he wasn't talking about the team buses, was he?

[anotheoldgit]

Very droll scrummy.

[andy-hughes]

I think the term 'coloured' to describe black people is largely obsolete, but language evolves constantly, and as some phrases are superceeded,, they remain in use by older generatrions who have grown up with them, and use them from habbit.

There are no cut-off points when one form of expression changes into another - reasonable people would simply see this as a slightly old-fashioned reference, but hopefully not assume that anything offensive is meant by its useage.

[Zeuhl]

I like Coloureds - it's the transparent people that worry me

[sandyRoe]

I think jno's answer was far droller.

[Gromit]

Alan Hansen

http://www.dailymail....undit-apologises.html

It is old fashioned

[anotheoldgit]

Black and White are not colours.

[craft1948]

I had never worked with any black people until 1989 when I worked in London for a year.................I was then told, in no uncertain terms, that referring to someone as 'coloured' was considered deeply offensive.

[McMouse]

Last time I referred to a black person as coloured they went beige with anger.

[Brinjal]

In. Africa mixed race people are referred to as colored. In fact they are a racial group all of their own now.

[Zeuhl]

<<Black and White are not colours>>

L O L

If not, what are they?

My car registration documents say it is black.
Try telling that to a printer Old Git, or a designer, or Dulux.

You are a treasure you really are.

[FredPuli43]

In the US the word '***' has gone out of favour, regarded as having racist overtones now because of its historical associations . That word was used several times, without any racist connection, by Martin Luther King in his 'I have a dream' speech. That's how language changes. And 'coloured' is definitely regarded as offensive. Use 'black' instead. Not sure about 'people of colour', which is still heard in the US and, occasionally, here.

[ummmm]

pmsl...

[FredPuli43]

i see that the word used by Martin Luther King [cited in my post ] has been censored. Poor man, using such language of his own people !

[d9f1c7]

My Granny still says darky!

[scrummyyummy]

I did wonder if the reporter was talking about the coloured mode of transport but I think not. I'll have to tune in for the tea-time news to see if they put that bit in.

I grew up in the north back in the 70s and the term 'black' was seen as racist so the word 'coloured' was used. When I moved down south, it was the reverse. In fact, I could always tell people (especially the older generation) who had moved down south because they were still using the same terminology but not meaning it in a racist way.

Also, in my youth, mixed-race was known as 'half-caste' then and it's not used nowadays.

[Brenden]

I know what you mean scrummy, they keep moving the goal post.

[maggiebee]

LOL d9f1c7, my dad said "wo*" til the day he died. Nothing I ever said made one bit of difference.

[scrummyyummy]

Does anyone remember the TV programme 'Mind Your Language'? It used to make me laugh! (am I allowed to admit to that?).

[anotheoldgit]

Zeuhl

Look it up and get educated.