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The Sum Of Our Parts

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

People of color have a diverse set of interests, experiences, backgrounds and cultures. And the way we experience race and racism can be really different. So why do we continue to use big umbrella terms like "POC"? And what do we risk if we lose them?

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0:00.0

People of color.

0:01.6

POC.

0:02.8

I've personally been using the term people of color since the mid-90s.

0:07.4

I was not, but...

0:11.2

Jareen, I mean, we use it all the time on the pod, like...

0:15.6

Yes.

0:16.6

All the time.

0:17.6

POC women.

0:19.0

POC media.

0:19.8

People of color.

0:20.7

People of color.

0:21.6

For the POC, PIE Win.

0:22.9

Women POCs.

0:24.2

People of color feel in a white supremacist society.

0:26.6

Being a Republican in a POC.

0:28.2

People of color, right?

0:29.0

Yeah, a world tour of the POC experience.

0:33.0

But...

0:34.0

After the protests for Black Lives reignited this past spring,

0:37.6

I saw a lot of people online saying they were over it.

0:41.8

On Twitter and people's IG stories,

0:44.3

people were saying,

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