Lots written on the terms BME or BAME, which I agree with. Good to see some critical thinking. A reminder though, that no terms is w/o problem bc the classifications they rely on are inherently problematic & in essence the foundation of white (capitalist) supremacy.

I prefer black & brown these days but even these are racist terms... Categories as the binary opposites of the European norms.

Same with people of colour, which I use but which kind of normalises the absence of colour & sets white people as the people ‘of no colour’, we could easily argue reproduces whiteness/white supremacy.

Global north/south...dies not solve these issues. Even though the categorisation is geopolitical & economic, it creates an homogeneity which is illusionary and ignores racialised hierarchies within the ‘the global south’ e.g. neo-colonial politics by brown folks on black folks

In a nutshell...this is where we see who is thinking & who needs to think a little bit more. You can’t have perfect language for imperfect & nebulous categories...

We will never have perfect terms...b4 anyone says how about using Africa...or the precise geographical locations...well until you dig into the imperial origins of many country’s names & links to colonisers. And these locations are themselves the products of colonial demarcations

There is a naïveté I think in many of these conversations. Partly I think because many are jumping on the bandwagon, and it’s shows.

The best we can do, I think is* be transparent about our choice of language, it’s limitations & be reflexive on our positionality & how it links to language & power*. And remember dismantling white supremacy is not merely a matter of changing the language...

By and large I am not longer referred to a N...within institutions.

I am still treated as such, by and large.