The People of Color Issue

The popular phase “people of color” in today’s youth is something I find destructive.

They’re not used in schools of anthropology, geography (what I majored in when I graduated college in 2006), or demographics that much, and the idea has not histoircally been or shouldn’t be all races against white people.

Take my family: My dad is boring white Long Islander (although a religious minority as a practicing Jew). However, my mother hails from a Jewish community in Southeast Iran. My grandmother lost 9 of her 13 siblings before they reached adulthood, they had famine, they were oppressed and outlawed by the government, my grandfather spent a few months in prison for illegal immigration to the British territory of present-day Israel, my mother, both of them were conscripted to fight in two wars, and my mother was born during the Israeli independence war and had a bullet graze her head as an infant.

You can read more about the Masshadi Jewish community here:

https://www.peoplegroups.in...

If you saw people on my mom’s side of the family, you’d see people with olive skin and maybe judge them white or POC, who knows, but why should that matter? if they were born 50 miles to the East, they’d have been Afghanis. Their surname is Kaboli which means “he who does business with Kabul”. It’s just so arbitrary.

It’s ludicrous to suggest that the Kaboli family’s is less worthy of being highlighted, celebrated, or rewarded just because of such an arbitrary distinction.