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Black , used by Americans, refers to Negroes; but (colonial) Britons have used it to refer to any dark-skinned people, particularly southeast Asians.
Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”
Citing a history of racism, including the historically well-documented Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Reid asks rhetorically whether genetics research will result in a “genetically modified” white upper class and a lower, dark-skinned “natural birth class”?
On Meet the Press , Tim Russert said Putin had called the Chechen rebels "dark-skinned people who must be annihilated" and had warned that "they will be found in latrines and killed."
Then, as the Stone Age came to an end, short, dark-skinned Iberians started to make their way from North Africa to the Spanish Peninsula.