Popular Nigerian singer, 2face Idibia has said using the phrase ‘people of color’ to describe black people is total bullsh*t to him.
He stated this in a post shared on his Instastory on Tuesday, November 22, adding that the phrase doesn’t sit well with him except white is not also a colour.
He wrote,
“Unless we are all saying that WHITE is not a colour. The idea of saying PEOPLE OF COLOUR is total bullshit to me.
#2babarandomthoughts”
Meanwhile, his post has sparked different reactions online as Nigerians and other Africans share their two cent on the concept behind the phrase ‘people of colour’.
Read some comments below,
@toba_popoola wrote, “Basically and factually, nobody is really BLACK or WHITE in its entirety. It’s the fabrication of the western world to make us look barbaric, backward, archaic ,uneducated and uncivilized and seeing themselves as WHITES (pure, forward, civilized and industrialized). They simply want to rewrite history by manipulating it. Civilization started in Africa 👌”
@est_thony_ wrote, “According to them, they call us people of color because we come in different shades of brown unlike white people, they don’t have shades of white 🤷🏽♀️”
@longdiva_bigwan wrote, “I prefer the people of color to the term “blacks” Look the reason we are referred to as people of color is because we are actually people of color, for Christ sake, what color is a European man? No human is practically White in color,but you see the Africans have all the skin colors, light brown,dark brown, coffee brown and maybe black.”
