I understand another Republican redneck Representative is in trouble for racist slurs at the nation’s podium. But since when is the term “colored people” racist? What about the “CP” in NAACP?

I’m really disappointed about this nit-picking about trivia when the country is undergoing a virtual orgasm of resurgence of racist, neofascist ideology. “Colored” is a useful and inclusive term to describe individuals who are not “white”. “Colored people” can be black, brown, or of Native American, or Asian origin. (Yeah, I’m hip. I know its not cool to say “Oriental” or “Indian” any more.) What errant nonsense.

Colored people can even be fair skinned, blonde, blue-eyed if they are from certain ethnic or religious categories.

As for my own ethnicity, I don’t know whether to call myself “Hispanic” or “Latin”, I refuse to say “Latinx”. While growing up, my family called people like us “Hispano” (of Spanish origin) or “Latino” (from the speakers of Latinate tongues), sometimes affixing the hyphenated suffix “-Americano”. “Latino” included people of Italian, Iberian, Romanian or even French descent. Incidentally, “American” is not a correct term, synonymous with a citizen of the USA. “Americano” is anyone from the Americas, the New World, from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska. Citizens of the United States are referred to by either the cumbersome “estadounidense” or “norteamericano”, the latter includes Canadians as well. For a US citizen to call himself “American” while implying the other half billion of us are mere South Americans is patronizing and insulting. We were here way before you showed up, gringo.

It is nice to know that many Norteamericanos now recognize and reject their racist past. That is a good thing, and we welcome it. But you don’t fight racism by waving a dictionary at it, or insisting on “correct” usage. (That seems to nevertheless change day by day). The mentality that inflicted genocide on the red man, slavery on the black man, and imperialism on the brown man is not going to be swayed by a polite grammar lesson.

Remember, The C in NAACP stands for “Critical Race Theory”.