When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn't categorised by the colour of her skin

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. I think

some Brits only just got past saying "coloured". /s (Which was in use here when I was young.)

And speaking of which, there was a guy whom some of us old folk may remember called Harry Golden, who back in the 1950s and early 1960s was the editor of something called The Carolina Israelite, and also wrote some books that were memoirs of his youth growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, as well as humorous observations on the world. One comment of his that I particularly remember concerned the labeling of accommodations of water fountains and such as "Colored". He queried, "Shouldn't ours say 'Colorless'?"