Oklahoma University newspaper apologizes after referring to Missouri students as 'colored'

[Newsjock]

Source: OU Daily

The Daily ran a photo caption with a story on Thursday that referred to Missouri students as "colored."

It was an egregious mistake that we deeply regret. The Daily is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and this error is not reflective of our organization as a whole.

Read more: http://www.oudaily.com/news/the-daily-apologizes-for-racially-insensitive-photo-caption/article_c78ba262-89be-11e5-b752-434336a61943.html

[malaise]

1. Yeh right

[redgreenandblue]

2. What is the difference between "colored" and "person of color"?

This is a serious question. Excuse my ignorance, I lived outside of the US for large parts of my life.

There is obviously some subtlety here that makes one term acceptable and the other one offensive.

[Recursion]

3. The former is painful to people and the latter is not

There's no real great need to ask much beyond that....

[Iggo]

7. A punch in the face.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Did We Jump Back To The 50's?

Colored people? Really? Who says that anymore?

[GOLGO 13]

5. White folk do.

Mah coffee cup is just red now? WTF?

[ProfessorGAC]

8. I'm White And So Are Almost All My Friends

And i've never heard any of them say it. It's just so 60 years ago

[Greybnk48]

6. The Republican Party has emboldened the racist pigs

in this country with their rhetoric. They were cowed for a little while because it wasn't safe to let their vile ignorance show in public, but no more. When we Dems win in 2016 we need to crush this and chase them back into their cockroach holes.

[KamaAina]

9. Does OU outsource publishing its paper to South Africa?!

In SA, "coloured" means a person of mixed race. Cape Town has the largest coloured population. By no means all coloured people vote ANC!