Coloured person used to be the polite way of describing @ras. Negroes was the official name. It was french for black. Then they wanted to be called blacks in the late sixties and seventies. They were also called African-Americans during this time. But that was considered a perjorative by the militant negroes who wanted to be called black. Black lasted till recently. Now they want to go back to African-Americans and in case you haven't noticed, the news media is going along with this.  I've decided to call them Negroes, once again, because they keep changing it to suit their whims about it and don't deserve the honor with the behavior they engage in. Plus, they feel that they can freely call themselves @ers while it's almost against the law that whites do. Even I try to go along as you see.  That level of total BS freed a double murderer.  Persons of Color is general term that both proclaims hey, I'm not whitey and can mean hispanic or any mud color not white. It's a political term, one that attacks whites for lacking enough skin pigmentation, as to bolster the Negroe's pride in something, anything.  Negroes have serious pride issues and look for any possible way to aleviate that. That's why you have so much BS about Africa, with names and colors, when most real Africans hate American Negroes. That's a good point. Most real Africans look down upon American Blacks as being lazy, materialistic, gang banging, cry babies looking for a hand out from White man, and I would have to agree with them.:)      I met an African guy once, he was Nigerian or something I think...if I remember correctly. He was saying how he always gets upset because when he's in America everyone always just thinks he's an African American but he said I am not a ni##er, I am an African! :roflEven the Africans don't like the American Blacks.      Blacks adopt African names and culture simply because Blacks were completely assimilated to White American culture. The assimilation process began on the boatride over. Then the slave owners would purposely suppress any signs of retaining African culture and identity. Because it's easier to control and manipulate people when they have no sense of ethnic pride and identity. ZOG knows this very well..... Slavers and conquerers always suppress the native cultures of their slaves or subjects. Blacks were completely assimilated to White Southern culture. They adopted our Western aka White clothing styles, our food(Creole,Cajun,fried chicken etc..) our instruments, our names, our music!! etc......     So in the 60s and 70s you started seeing the African Revival movement where Blacks were trying to get in touch with their African culture that they had long since been removed from. The slaves were assimilated to White Southern culture nearly from the second they stepped on American soil. That's why they go out of their way now to play up their non existant Africaness, wearing dashikis and adopting African names and calling themselves African Americans :rolleyes: