‘People of colour’ is just ‘coloured people’ flipped round—and still racist.” – Howard Dean Johnson

In this candid Q&A, the audience presses the speaker to justify calling the phrase “people of colour” a racist term. His answer digs into how language itself reproduces white supremacy.

✅ “People of colour” = inverted “coloured people,” a polite-sounding racial epithet

✅ “Black and brown people” keeps the same pigment hierarchy alive; he opts for “Black and other non-whites”

✅ Global North / South wealth gaps expose a world ordered as white vs non-white power blocs

✅ Even whites “who may not be practising individual racism” still benefit from structural racism baked into that system

🗣️ Words can dismantle or reproduce racism—choose the ones that expose power, not hide it.

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