After long meetings this past week in Cleveland the Joshua Generation group worked diligently with the term "People of Color." After the last joint board meeting it was determined that many of the racial-ethnic minorities found the term "People of Color" most degrading. We are all different and should not be lumped together because of the pigment in our skin.
In wrestling with this, and understanding that within the Urban context one in encounters so many, the group came up with the term PALANAs. (Just sound it out)
PALANAs
Pacific Islander
Asian
Latino/a
African
Native
Americans
The wonderful piece of this term PALANAs is the A for Americans. We recognized that there are some who feel they will not fit in one of the categories. Our work is for all Americans and we find that this term can be inclusive rather than exclusive.
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