Is It Time To Say R.I.P. To 'POC'?

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Suffice it to say, we use the term "POC" a lot on Code Switch. But critiques of the initialism — and the popularization of the term "BIPOC" — caused us to ask: Should we retire POC? Or is there use in it yet?

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0:00.0	People of color POC I've personally been using the term people of color since the mid 90s. I
0:09.2	Was not but
0:11.4	Jarin, I mean we use it all the time on the pod like yes all the time
0:17.9	POC women POC media people of color people of color for the POC
0:22.2	PI win women POCs people of color fail and a white supremacy society being a Republican in a POC people of color right huh
0:29.1	a world tour of the POC experience
0:32.7	But
0:33.9	After the protest for black lives reignited this past spring I saw a lot of people online saying they were over it
0:41.6	on Twitter and people's IG stories people were saying stop calling me POC black folks in particular
0:49.2	I saw a lot of people saying just
0:51.8	Please call me black black be black black not
0:55.6	Call me a person color and all this woke me up to the fact that people of color is this term that I use
1:01.7	It's a term that we say like you said a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot
1:05.0	But it's a phrase that I haven't really given that much thought to
1:11.3	But that's changed
1:13.3	So on this week's episode
1:16.1	What do we mean when we say people of color?
1:18.5	Okay, why do some of us identify with that term and why does it annoy?
1:23.8	So many others
1:26.8	Is it time to say RIP to POC and if so is
1:32.4	BIPOC the new kid on the block. I think you should have said is
1:38.2	Bypuck the new kid on the block just cuz you know, we're on mass reasons bars
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