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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree we should get back to the topic. I think BIPOC could mean either:

Black, indigenous people of color (so, black people who were born here and are descendants of slaves, right, not recent immigrants from, say Nigeria.
This would not include the traditional definition of POC, which would includes people of Asian and Hispanic descent.

Black + indigenous + other people of color (so black people, Native Americans, and other people of color, including Asians, Hispanics...)
So this would include the old POC group but put extra preference and emphasis on black POC and Native American POC. 
Is this right? [/quote]

Okay, I read a bunch more websites and the conclusion I came to is that it is the latter. The whole point, like someone else said, is to emphasize how black and indigenous peoples have suffered MORE than other people of color. It is an acknowledgement thing. [/quote]

So we’re playing the suffering Olympics? Got it.[/quote]

WHY DON’T WE JUST SAY ‘POC’?

The term BIPOC stands for ‘Black, Indigenous, People of Color,’ it is meant to unite all people of color in the work for liberation while intentionally acknowledging that not all people of color face the same levels of injustice. By specifically naming Black and Indigenous people we are recognizing that Black and Indigenous people face the worst consequences of systemic white supremacy, classism and settler colonialism.

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/bipoc-gnd-crash-course
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I thought “black and brown” did this and in a more inclusive way. I like that “black and brown” also acknowledges that darker skinned POC, including Hispanics and South East Asians get treated more badly on the whole than lighter skinned. [/quote]

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