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Default Re: Enoch Powell: the Great Lie survives

Also, maybe it's a lost-in-translation kinda thing, but one thing everyone should know is that in this day and age, you cannot call Black and Asian people "coloured" without coming off as racist:

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Originally Posted by roberto View Post
Because he did not blame coloured people per se
The correct term is to call them "ethnic minorities", or to call them "black". Yes, as strange as it may seem to some, it is acceptable to call Asians and blacks, "black" when referring to them as a group, but definitely not "coloured".
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