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re: Is "POC" now the new term for Black?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 2:34 pm to Cheese Grits
Posted on 8/13/14 at 2:34 pm to Cheese Grits
Then I am just unlucky 
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 2:36 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I turned 50 shades of red and just hauled arse out of the store. I did check on him later to see if he got an arse whoopin or not 
Posted on 8/13/14 at 2:40 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Then I am just unlucky
Maybe it is just being in Missouri.
In the mountains in NC, TN, VA, and KY you have folks that intermarried between the native indians, white trappers, and free blacks. Wilderness was a great leveler early on. Skin color mattered less than survival skills.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 2:41 pm to brucevilanch
I just asked the question because I literally had never heard POC before. I grew up in the 60's and 70's where you would hear old people say colored and they didnt mean it in a racist way. That was what they were taught.
Anyway, its an old fashioned term, so to see this POC thing was curious. Maybe they mean people of mixed background.
Anyway, its an old fashioned term, so to see this POC thing was curious. Maybe they mean people of mixed background.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 2:59 pm to Cheese Grits
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Maybe it is just being in Missouri
I've only lived here for barely two years
I've been and lived in plenty of places and seen lots of shite, but never have gotten to be friends with such an individual.
I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:07 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
You can be my friend. They call me white chocolate in my neighborhood as I was the token white kid for many blocks. I had a ginger fro that was the envy of the neighborhood. It looked sorta like this but even more ginger.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:10 pm to Cheese Grits
That is a frightful gingerfro
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:15 pm to Cheese Grits
Carrot top is that you before the roids?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:17 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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That is a frightful gingerfro
Back in the 60's mine was bigger and even more orange.
Toughened me up early and I survived. Different era I suppose.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:18 pm to Pavoloco83
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Carrot top is that you before the roids?
Never did roids, and I am way older than Carrot Top.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:42 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Tbird, I've followed your posts and I know you are more thoughtful than this generally. Differentiating dark skin and light skin in South Africa during apartheid was pretty important. They were all African. Skin color was the factor. If we find a need to distinguish, ancestral continent doesn't cut it.
Posted on 8/14/14 at 6:14 am to Aux Arc
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Differentiating dark skin and light skin in South Africa during apartheid was pretty important. They were all African. Skin color was the factor.
I am aware of all of this, and never intimated otherwise.
I'm strictly talking about those AMERICANS who trace their ancestral roots to the African continent, not the intricacies of South African rave relations during apartheid. Not diminishing the significance of that, of course, but it has no bearing on what I'm saying.
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If we find a need to distinguish, ancestral continent doesn't cut it.
I disagree. For most black people (myself included), the furthest we can accurately trace our roots for the lion's share of our family tree is the African continent. Specifically west Africa for many of us. Thanks to factors we all know all too well, it's simply not possible to progress any further. The term "African American" doesn't deign to hold the continent of Africa over that of the USA, it simply acknowledges general roots. It's truly not a big deal, but some folks get hung up on the semantics of the thing, and that's unfortunate.
There is no panacea when it comes to discussing heritage for families such as mine and many others, but for anyone to say that AA doesn't cut it is the height of presumption, tbqh.
Posted on 8/14/14 at 7:05 am to Pavoloco83
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Today I was reading articles elsewhere that were written by non-white authors. They referred to themselves as POC. I am assuming that means "person of color" or "People of Color"
I simply REFUSE to change my ID to PersonOfColorHelicopterPilot.
I simply WILL NOT do it!
Posted on 8/14/14 at 7:07 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
Posted on 8/14/14 at 8:44 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
No you change it to HeliPOCterPilot.
Posted on 8/14/14 at 8:48 am to Pavoloco83
Posted on 8/14/14 at 8:49 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
Never made the connection that you were a POC. I thought it was a reference to the black helicopter conspiracy theory, you know... 
I am dumb.
I am dumb.
Posted on 8/14/14 at 8:54 am to Pavoloco83
My old racist neighbor (he's dead now) used to call black folks "colored". It wasn't an endearing term......
Posted on 8/14/14 at 9:06 am to Pavoloco83
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No you change it to HeliPOCterPilot
awsome
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