Ok, perhaps I'll rephrase it for you. Because you did make such an assertion. By providing numbers about how many blacks are in prison, jail, how many represent the overall population of the US, etc.

Then you made the remark in your personal deffinition of what you felt it ment.

So in the same manner, wouldn't using the term 'Colored People' possibly have something to do with race as well?

I mean, since having white skin could be argued being a 'color type' of people, why are you viewing the term 'Colored People' as being?

Does that termonology, in that specific group mean that I can go to them to help me when I feel I'm being discriminated against? Or would they not tell me that their useage of the term 'Colored People' means for a specific race skin color, as in the African American race that they represent?

You're focusing on the numbers of people within a specific race. Not the termonolgy of each individual race. You're focusing on who's a minority and who's a majority, to define the meaning/purpose of a racial name.

I understand perfectly, that African Americans have been discriminated against. I understand perfectly that in many cases, that the numbers are present. But to me, those numbers are not represenative of THE PEOPLE, their culture, or their importance to our society as a whole.

I consider them a group within the group we all share. That of the human race.

But despite all the uneveness in numbers, the incidents of discrimination against that particular race, and their need to be protected from such treatment...That doesn't take away the fact that their not the only ones experiencing the discrimination. So are many caucasian people. Yet, while other racial/ethnic groups have protection and services to help them equalize the discrimination, those of us who are 'the wrong color' do not.