Stumbling Over Political Correctness
One can but wonder where it all comes from, this politically correct language that has so handcuffed our native language. Who was it, first defining blacks and various other non-white minorities as ‘people of color?’'
One can but wonder where it all comes from, this politically correct language that has so handcuffed our native language. Who was it, first defining blacks and various other non-white minorities as ‘people of color?’
I studied my own color in the shaving mirror this morning and was displeased at my winter shade of gray over a kind of pinkish undertone. Summertime, or returning from my less and less frequent winter vacations, I am a kind of boiled-pink, tannish in spots and given to variations of grim splotchiness. I wish I was more even and healthy looking. Really makes me wonder what the hell people of color is meant to mean, excluding me as it does and relegating me to the category of ‘people without color.’
Blind persons are now deemed to be visually challenged, which se…