Since I've been incredibly busy this weekend and haven't had a chance to read everything, has it been said how old the poster is? While it doesn't excuse their fail, I just wondered.

I'm old enough that when I was the age that I started paying attention to these issues, 'colored people' had nearly been replaced by 'black'. Over my life, I've heard the same group of people called blacks, colored people, negros, Afro-Americans, African-Americans, people of color, I can even remember a couple of little old ladies from my childhood who still used darkies. So I wondered if maybe the poster's fail had its origins in the same, "Why is what I said racist when I was only using the term people said they wanted used? Yesterday it was okay but today it's not," that I've heard from some of my age-mates.