01-19-2009, 02:20 PM
In response to the "colored" term being old and insulting: when my great-grandmother (who is 95, has alzheimer's, and is in a nursing home) was shown the cover of a magazine with Obama on it and was told that he's our next president, she said "It's called the White House, not the colored house". Blame it on her alzheimer's for saying it, but unfortunately I think it represents some long-held racism that still exists today.