Use of "Minority" question

[sandnsea]

I posted a thread about a white supremacist sarin trial in Tennessee and I have a question.

As I was writing up the sentence about the guy wanting to kill black people, I wanted to use a broader term to indicate all racial "minorities". Him reassuring folks that he wasn't "any al qaeda" seemed to cry out for a broader reference. But here's the thing, people of color are not the minority race in the world. Using the term "minorities" really doesn't drive it home to the supremacists, that truth be told, whites are the minority on this planet. I'm wondering if the use of the word "minority" actually feeds the superiorty complex of whites in the US. Know what I mean?

But I couldn't think of a good word. Ethnic? Seems like it would have the same result. Any ideas, thoughts, etc?

Here's the story, by the way. There really is a white supremacist on trial in Tennessee for trying to buy sarin, who wanted to nuke DC, and mustard gas black people. You'd think that would be at least as important as Natalie Holloway. :crazy:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=919805&mesg_id=919805

[Brewman_Jax]

1. I see that it went straight to the bottom

I think that the term "minorities" is accurate in this case since whites are the numerical majority overall in the US. The superiority complex is well-entrenched and verbage will not change that anytime soon.

[sandnsea]

2. But if you wanted a different word

What would it be, that's my question. A word that said people of color oppressed by whites, like in South Africa when whites were the minority. What's the word? :shrug:

Yeah, sunk like a stone. I was actually surprised on that one, because of both the media burying the white supremacist terrorist part, and the mustard gassing black people part. Just goes to show that DU is just as full of sheeple as any other group, the annointed ones didn't tell them to get upset about that, so they didn't.

[alarcojon]

3. Reminds me of the Audre Lorde poem

The US and USSR are the most powerful countries
in the world
but only 1/8 of the world's population.
African people are also 1/8 of the world's population.
1/2 of the world's population is Asian.
1/2 of that is Chinese.
There are 22 nations in the middle east.
Not two.

Most people in this world
are Yellow, Black, Brown, Poor, Female
Non-Christian
and do not speak English.

By the year 2000
the 20 largest cities in the world
will have one thing in common
none of them will be in Europe
and none in the United States.