[dammage79]

People dancing on eggshells on how to reference ethnic groups in conversation is definitely an issue that IMO causes unwarranted anxiety.

You could be having a perfectly fluid and reasonable conversation about current affairs and then that pause, uncomfortable look around, in your head you're flipping through what was acceptable yesterday to reference say, a Black person (is it African American? African Canadian? Black? ), and is it acceptable today, because it changes as we roll along.

Its all so weird.

Reminds me of an early family guy episode when Stewie wants to tell a black joke and scours the whole city too see if a black person is within earshot and when he tells the joke a black person pops out of the plant pot beside him.

2nd guessing doesn't help. If its Black with a capital B, good. I mean Chappelle's covered this exact thing on Chapelle show before. Let's all get on the same page and move on. I find PoC a little on the wrong side of the coin. Still has a racist connotation to me.

I don't see an issue with Black as a reference point if they're good with it. African American definitely never made much sense to me even when I was under the impression that that was the safest descriptor for North American Black people. It was what I was instructed to use when writing police statements back in my bouncer days. So it was just that.