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: “The black and Indigenous was added to kind of make sure that it was inclusive,” Ms. Frisby said. “ I think the major purpose of that was for including voices that hadn’t originally been heard that they wanted to include in the narrative, darker skin, blacks and Indigenous groups, so that they could make sure that all the skin shades are being represented.” Charmaine Nelson, an art history professor at McGill University, said that the history of black and Indigenous people in Canada calls for the distinction between them and other people of color. In some parts of Canada, mainly east of Ontario, Indigenous people were colonized but not enslaved, she said, unlike Africans who were subjected to chattel slavery everywhere. “We understand that under colonialism African and Indigenous people had very different experiences,” Dr. Nelson said. “ To conflate everything in one is to erase, which is the very nature of genocidal practice.” If the intention was to help spell it out, some aren’t getting the message. On social media, many assumed the term stood for “ bisexual people of color .” Others read it as “biopic,” the shorthand for a biographical movie. The term has caused confusion, and there isn’t universal agreement about what it means or whom it actually includes, but to most, the people of color includes Latinos and Asians.