Does anyone feel racist when they refer to their horse as 'coloured'?

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I do sometimes! I know it sounds silly! I could call him skewbald but that sounds silly too! I think we should think of a better name for multicoloured horses!
 
i didnt untill now !
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Do you know what, i had never even thought of it! What about: browhit (as in brown and white) and blacwhit (as in black and white)????
 
i'm potentially about to get a skewbald, and my non horsey in laws were a bit taken aback when i said she was coloured!
 
I don't think piebald is as bad though I don't like the 'bald' part, but pie makes me think of pied wagtails (small black and white birds) so that makes sense. Skewbald just sounds wierd, like they are squint and have no hair!
 
In fairness all horses are coloured as they are all a colour, unless you count grey, black and white as not being colours, I am sure there is a word for these but can't think of it.
 
nope, never thought coloured as racist.

What about calling a horse black?

I think nanny state has gone too far when you feel calling a horse "coloured" is racist
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No , never. My non blood relative uncle is 'black' not colured, he says that it is not him that finds these terms offensivse, but other perseeving it as so.

As he puts it, should he be offended by the term chocolate, coco, brown, black, it goes on and on.

I am not offended by white, pink, white board.
 
Good just me then! Racist probably isn't the right word.

When you're describing your horse to a non-horsey person and you say it's coloured they're abit miffed, and if you say it's skewbald they're even more miffed! But then i suppose they're like this with most horse colours, bay (brown), chesnut (orange), palomino (yellow), roan (a mixture), I could go on!
 
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Do you know what, i had never even thought of it! What about: browhit (as in brown and white) and blacwhit (as in black and white)????

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And f*ckwhit for any one who thinks we are being rascist!!!!!!!!!
 
I am mixed race and I have a "coloured" horse and to be honest i have never thought about it. I was raised in Africa and coloured was never a derogatory term out there.

I actually find I am quite happy to be classed as coloured as opposed to black as I feel i shouldn't have to disregard my mother's heritage (she is white) in preference to my father's purely because my skin is brown. I am half and half, and have always been raised under British culture. However I am proud of my black heritage too.

I just resent being pigeon holed as black as you couldn't very well class me as white so why should one take precedence over the other. I think the term "coloured" originated under apartheid in South Africa and has been adopted globally as being derogatory but I don't find it so, personally.

I think political correctness has gone mad personally. You are what you are.

Ironically, in East Africa as a child, the locals classed me as "white" as my mother is white....
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ETS: and yes, I describe my horse as coloured- sorry got on my soapbox there for a mo!!!
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Nah, he is coloured so thats that really!

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ditto,
its not like you can hurt a horses feelings by making a reference to his colour
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I do sometimes! I know it sounds silly! I could call him skewbald but that sounds silly too! I think we should think of a better name for multicoloured horses!

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There is, Paint or Pinto. I have one of each, no coloured horses.
 
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