03.04.26 Update
So the question remains. When Greenlanders say they are people of color, what color are they talking about?Are they saying they are colorful people, color-full people, people with color in them?
What does people of color mean?
What does it mean to you?
Clearly you Greenlanders are speaking of ancestry.
Where do people of color come from?Are you saying, “I'm every color, it's all in me?” “I have color naturally.”
One of the things you are clearly saying and clearly said is, “we are not white people [colorless]!”
No one who is clearly not white-skinned, has to assert they are a person of color.
So to me, when Greenlanders say, we are people of color, the subtext is, I know you can see me, and I know you're looking at me thinking I'm white, but I'm not, I'm a person of color, not just me, this is our collective assertion. We know who we are. We know we are not white.
So then, where you from, son?
You must be saying you are not European.
Now to say, we are people of color, could be considered a statement of solidarity with other “people of color.”
It does not.
And it definitely does not means we are colored people. A term recently reserved for black people, Africans, Negroes, and even the conflicted African-Americans and recent fractures.
So the question remains, what is the point of saying we are people of color?
While writing down these questions, this just came to me.
IQ can be used as a stand-in for Identity Quotient.
Identity awareness is a better measure of intelligence.
