[Kyle]

Originally Posted by DanaC

It's also because saying they are 'coloured' suggests that, rather than simply being a different colour to white people (ie two different colours) it suggests that whte people have no colour, they are simply the norm, whereas black people have a colour.

I think it's best if we as people never ever mention anybody's skin colour as anything in case the old PC brigade wheel up and frisk you off for a seminar.