Host Apologizes for Saying “Colored People” Instead of “People of Color”

Amy Robach, Host

GMA Host Receives Criticism for Her Wording of Racial Term

by Josh Guckert

Recently, Good Morning America host Amy Robach issued an apology for her on-air use of the term “colored people.” It came during an interview segment with Zendaya, who is rumored to star as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Said Robach:

We all know Hollywood has received recent and quite a bit of criticism for casting white actors in what one might assume should be a role reserved for colored people.

Many on social media expressed outrage over the fact that Robach used the “outdated” term. She insisted that she meant to say the more modern and accepted term of “people of color.” She called her terming “a mistake” which was “not at all a reflection of how I feel or speak in my everyday life.”

ZsaVette Ellis-Frye, a management leader in Atlanta, said on Twitter that “colored people” is “outdated, antiquated, and offensive,” not just to “people of color, but many people.”

The term “people of color” has only in the last few years become a fashionable way to describe black Americans, in some ways overtaking “African-Americans.” The latter was popularized by Jesse Jackson during his Presidential run in 1988.

Some even went as far as to state that Robach had used a “racial slur” in referring to “colored people.” However, it does seem odd that so few letters could make the difference between being racist and politically correct.

No doubt, “colored people” has an extremely negative history and connotation. However, by encouraging the use of such a similar terminology, social justice warriors come off looking just silly. Rather than attempting to discover the most sensitive way to describe certain groups, perhaps “black” ought to be good enough. At the end of the day, these superfluous designations are minimal. Skin color is an extremely minor difference, as opposed to the many more similarities which all human beings share.

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