Title: BIPOC: What Does It Mean? - The New York Times
Headings: Where Did BIPOC Come From?
Where Did BIPOC Come From?
The acronym, which stands for black, Indigenous and people of color, is suddenly everywhere. Is it doing its job?

Content: Show me that you know the difference.” To attempt to represent so many different identities in a single term is a product of colonialism, according to Chelsey Luger, a wellness trainer at the Native Wellness Institute, and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, a tribal nation in North Dakota. “It is a redundant term if anything else,” Ms. Luger said. “ All people of color are Indigenous. A lot of people of color are not acknowledged as and don’t have a connection to that idea because their Indigenous identity has been erased through assimilative techniques or just the connection to our stories and our history has been violently taken from us.” Image
Members of the Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue performed before the BIPOC Mothers March in Minneapolis on June 14, 2020. Credit...
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The Indigenous community critiques the designations of Native American and First Nations, as the Indigenous are called in Canada, because their diversity is not recognized in those terms, according to Ms. Luger. “The fact that people think that we’re one homogeneous group and they don’t acknowledge our diversity contributes to our dehumanization,” Ms. Luger said. “ It is common knowledge that European and white Americans come from multinational complex backgrounds with very diverse histories. It is dangerous when you perpetuate the notion that black and Indigenous people of color are homogeneous.”