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The term 'minority' has never made sense. Let's cancel it.

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The term 'minority' has never made sense. Let's cancel it. Grist Derrick Z. Jackson writes: "Nearly three decades ago, I wrote the following sentence in a Boston Globe column: 'Let us bury the term 'minority.'' Silly me, thinking in 1991 that I could eliminate this amorphous, diminutive label for people of color with a few taps on a keyboard. I excised it from my own writing, as government, businesses, and the media continued to employ 'minority,' 'minorities,' and 'minority communities' as lazy shorthand. In 2020 as the entire nation edges toward becoming majority people of color, the word remains deeply embedded in our political discourse and discordance." READ MORE

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