Pile of patchwork quilts, in black and white. (Photograph from iStockPhoto.)
A couple of days ago someone got all politically correct on me while I was talking about ‘coloureds’.
Walking in on the end of my conversation he pulled me up for my vocabulary, “They’re not called ‘coloureds’ these days, they prefer to be known as ‘blacks’,” he said.
“Do they?”, I replied.
“Yes.”
“Do they indeed.”
So, apparently when I’m washing my clothes from now on (which is what I’d been talking about) I now have only two hues of clothing: whites and ‘blacks’! It was so much easier when I could refer to the latter pile of clothes as ‘coloureds’.
Tee hee! Do you separate your whites into “White British”, “White European” and “White Irish” too?
Laugh Out Loud!
Maybe I should label the laundry bins Caucasian and Afro-Carribean just to be on the safe side.
I’m White Welsh thank you very much… we’ll have none of this one basket for all your brits thank you…