The current American 'politically correct' term to call non-white people is 'People of Colour, or POC for short. Because 'black' isn't politically correct, and not an 'accurate' description.
But then, 'white' isn't an accurate description either: the skin of a 'white' person is actually a bit pink, maybe a bit red, maybe a bit brown.
Essentially, we are all 'people of colour', it's just that some people like to exclude lighter-skinned people and bully them.
In any case, the term can't have been coined by a 'POI' (Person of Intelligence). Let's think of the logical conclusion to this...
In the English language, plurals are generally made by adding an 's' to the end of words. Acronyms are no exception, even though this is technically incorrect (e.g. DUIs for 'drivers under influence': note where the plural is).
This means that although 'POC' should technically be used for both 'person of colour' and 'people of colour' (much like the words 'sheep' and 'fish' which are both singular and plural), it gets transformed to 'POCs' for the plural.
And the problem with this is that 'POCs', when said as a word, sounds exactly the same as 'pox'... which is a term for a variety of diseases.
So, essentially, certain black people want to drive out supposed 'systematic racism' by demanding all black people are called something we use for diseases.
Now there's irony!!
But then, 'white' isn't an accurate description either: the skin of a 'white' person is actually a bit pink, maybe a bit red, maybe a bit brown.
Essentially, we are all 'people of colour', it's just that some people like to exclude lighter-skinned people and bully them.
In any case, the term can't have been coined by a 'POI' (Person of Intelligence). Let's think of the logical conclusion to this...
In the English language, plurals are generally made by adding an 's' to the end of words. Acronyms are no exception, even though this is technically incorrect (e.g. DUIs for 'drivers under influence': note where the plural is).
This means that although 'POC' should technically be used for both 'person of colour' and 'people of colour' (much like the words 'sheep' and 'fish' which are both singular and plural), it gets transformed to 'POCs' for the plural.
And the problem with this is that 'POCs', when said as a word, sounds exactly the same as 'pox'... which is a term for a variety of diseases.
So, essentially, certain black people want to drive out supposed 'systematic racism' by demanding all black people are called something we use for diseases.
Now there's irony!!
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