Background: I'm white and my bosses are white. I'm late 20s one is early 40s the other is 50 something.
I have been told off today for using the term 'black' (we were talking about political correctness and labelling a SAHM and how for decades it was housewife, he said why would it change... I said things do eg coloured is now black)
Anyway, they went mad saying you can't use language like that, that's unacceptable. I know they are of a different age and they have been bought up using 'coloured' but I have always been told 'black' is correct. This sparked a twenty minute debate with my boss getting angrier and angrier saying his best mate would hate me. He's coloured and nothing else. I resorted to google blah blah blah.
Now I'm being branded racist because I use a word my generation has deemed appropriate! Grrrrr
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TwittyMcTwitterson · 13/02/2014 09:36
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