If POC is offensive now
What is the term that should be used to refer to a group of non-white people?
Asking as a non-white
Where were all the "people of color" then?
Never saw a Latino or Asian identify themselves as "colored".
Might want to ask a white person...black people don't get to make the rules when it comes to racism.
Deeper Dive:
The short answer is that Asians were considered “colored”, and are still considered to be “colored” by certain parts of American society.
That is an oversimplification. In truth, Asian Americans have had a complicated history with classification
Until 1952, Asian American immigrants couldn’t naturalize. They couldn’t become citizens. So, they couldn’t vote. Children of Asian Americans who were born in America were citizens, though, and could vote. Apart from that, whether Asians were white or colored depended on who you talked to, and whom you were talking about. Chinese Americans were white in some places, colored in others. Arab Americans were mostly white. Indian Americans were white if they looked white, but colored if they had a hint of brown. There was actually a guy named Bhagat Singh (not related to the martyr) who argued in front of the Supreme Court that since he is “Aryan” by descent, he should be considered eligible for naturalization. The Supreme Court scratched their collective heads and said “Not all Aryans are white”
At the same time, Jim Crow era laws restricted many African Americans from voting. This eventually lead to the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s, which resulted in the Voting RIghts Act that eliminated discriminatory practices during voting. Naturalized Asian Americans got the right to vote as part of this act.
Whole idea is ridiculous under the slightest scrutiny - yet institutionalized racism still prevails.
Classifying people by the color of their skin is their thing not ours.
All we are saying is be humble with that lumping us all together thing.
We took the hits during the civil rights movement so that they could have the right to vote too...but they wasn't with us shooting in the gym.