"...of colour” was a convenient tool for White folks to hide their prejudices ..."

Bravo and I stand with you as a brown person. I cringe when I hear the term "of colour", as it mollifies centuries and beyond of racism, patriarchal oppression and classist societies.

I have no idea where this term came from, as though "coloured" isn't of itself a descriptor for white people to describe non-whites. While I acknowledge non-Apartheid language is a linguistic and semantic minefield, the "People of Colour" (or "P.O.C.") designation smacks of an attempt at aggrandisement whilst setting apart a subset of the human race from "us white people". That coloured people adopted this phrase alarms me.

Trump will make life more difficult not just for the USA, but the rest of the world. What we don't need is divisive language and epithets which seek to divide by well-intentioned (or otherwise) paternalism.