Tuesday, March 12, 2019



British conservative politician apologises after calling Diane Abbott a 'coloured woman'


How about "fugly" as a description?

Amber Rudd has apologised for using “clumsy language” after she described Diane Abbott as a “coloured woman”.

The Work and Pensions Secretary sparked outcry after she used the term - widely regarded as a racist slur - during a radio interview in which she discussed abuse and racism in British politics.

Ms Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said the term was “offensive” and a “revealing choice of words”.

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"Coloured" is actually a more accurate description than black.  In the weird world we inhabit, most blacks are brown.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't confuse the issue even more by mentioning the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.


AIB/44

Anonymous said...

Some people are oh so sensitive.

Anonymous said...

Person of Color, fine.
Colored person, offensive. Ya right, whatever. The perpetually aggrieved can't make up their "minds."

C. S. P. Schofield said...

Fugly works. So does 'south end of a northbound mule'

Anonymous said...

"widely considered a racist slur"
By whom?
Who is keeping the rule-book on this nowadays?
I certainly can't keep up.

Hinchey said...

Abbott has described herself as a woman of colour on many occasions so it seems a woman of colour is not a coloured woman . You could not make this up its so absurd .