Lindsay Lohan Calls Obama "First Colored President?" (VIDEO)

Lindsay Lohan is happy Barack Obama got elected after campaigning for him this year. But, she referred to the President-Elect with a mumbled adjective at the beginning of an interview with Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos that some say is offensive. Does she say "good" or "colored?"

"It's an amazing feeling. It's our first [mumble] president."

Perez and Defamer think she said "colored."

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[davibaby]

I'm black. What she said was no big deal. She has a good heart. She supported the better candidate whole-heartedly, which is a good thing. We don't need another trivial controversy. I say SO WHAT?
Lindsey, thank you for supporting Barack.

ps. We're ALL colored. If you aren't, you must be transparent.
Peace to you all from Davibaby!

[Kikaida1]

"We're ALL colored. If you aren't, you must be transparen­t."

Right ON!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!

[Strywever]

Thanks for your generous attitude about this, Davibaby! Peace right back atcha.

[shaaronie]

Exactly!

[cdub1991]

She probably meant to say "president of color" and it just came out wrong. So what. Assuming of course that's what she said, since it is unintelligible.

Folks on this board really like to get their anger on, it seems.

[Topgun2]

And so what?

[wmafoune]

> When I was born, I was BLACK,
> When I grew up, I was BLACK,
> When I went in the sun, I stayed BLACK,
> When I got cold, I was BLACK,
> When I was scared, I was BLACK,
> When I was sick, I was BLACK,
> And when I die, I'll still be BLACK.
>
>
> NOW, You 'white' folks....
> When you're born, you're PINK,
> When you grow-up, you're WHITE,
> When you go in the sun, you get RED,
> When you're cold, you turn BLUE,
> When you're scared, you're YELLOW,
> When you get sick, you're GREEN,
> When you bruise, you turn PURPLE,
> And when you die, you look GRAY.
>
> So who y'all callin'
> COLORED folks?

[groucho]

You are great, this was the best comment i've heard in 2 days!!

[Kikaida1]

Ha, ha -- BRAVO!

[Takae]

> When you're scared, you're YELLOW,

How nice. :/ That's the only line that doesn't work at all. When 'white' people get scared, they pale or go white, don't they? So why 'yellow'? Yeah, that line doesn't work for me.

[oliviasmommi]

I think it goes back to Westerns..­.you hear them saying, "what's the matter, are you yeller?" meaning, "are you scared?" Or you hear someone called "yellow bellied", meaning they are a wuss. But, I could be wrong...LO­L

[Strywever]

ROFL! Fantastic!!

[Ms Fu]

What the heck is this? I'm also a black person, and your comment frankly reads as insensitive. Please, be mature about this.

[Fredo777]

She most definitely said "colored".

[Aroura]

She said Colored, who cares? It's an old term, but I don''t think it's derrogitory, necessarily. My grandma used to use it (not in a bad way) and so once in a great while, I'll say it too. I feel stupid when I do, but I don't mean anything by it either.
I hate how everyone needs to be SO pc they can't even utter a sentance without ridicule.

Get over it, she didn't say anything wrong. (for a change, haha)

[westreal]

I don't think she meant anything by it. Black people called ourselves colored at one time. Now we've progressed from calling ourselves African American to just black. And even white people are getting comfortable with just saying black. Who coined the term African American I'll never know because I hate that. I prefer just black. But Lohan didn't mean anything malicious by "colored" because of the context it was used in.

[penn2008]

African American isn't P.C. anymore? I just got used to calling myself a Belgian American because I don't like to be refered to as white! All kidding aside, I agree with you and don't think it was meant as malicious.

[kothian1]

I don't really see the need to get all hostile on Lindsay about this. I know from my own experience that "white folk" have a real problem keeping up with what the word of the day is when referencing people with dark skin (see?). The need to reference it at all SHOULD be unnecessary, but then again when you're talking about the historic aspect of this election,race is going to come up. Not all 'blacks' are 'African Americans'; I saw some baseball player making this assessment on Tim McCarvey's sports show. There's "people of color", which is/ was presumably preferable to "colored", although I don't know exactly why. Quite honestly, you put a lot of us pasty white people in the situation where we have to politely refer to some other person's skin color...an­d we just plain don't know what to say that won't offend someone. Certainly.­..if it was her intention to offend...s­he might have chosen a word that makes no mistake in its ability to offend. With any luck we'll get past the need to have such descriptors in our language. Maybe when we're all the same sort of mid-range cafe au' lait color.

[bobbysgurl]

"People of color" refer to non-caucasion people. "Colored" refers to African Americans in the United States. "Coloured" refers to non-African people in some African countries.

In Lohan's defense, I couldn't make out what was said because the sound was not clear.

[kothian1]

Is that how it works? I can't say that I ever noticed such subtle distinctions. We need a graduated color chart. Then I can accurately be referred to as a pale-blue, sunblindne­ss-causing­, white guy. All of the fuss just gets very frustrating. I'm an artist, and never once have I grabbed a tube of Titanium White to paint a white person, or a tube of Lamp Black to paint a black person. Nor have I been able to particularly figure out why Asians are considered to be "yellow". Some of them are whiter than I am, many just look brown. The really offensive words are pretty well known to everybody.­..it's all the other little color descriptors that people always feel the need to dance around.

[Blue in NH]

Before everyone gets all excited here, remember that it much of the world the word "colored" is used to refer to people of mixed race. In that context it is not necessarily perjorative. That said, Ms. Lohan could have used better judgement.

[elbowroom]

LL's not from "much of the world," she's American and knows better. It was a dumb, ignorant thing for her to say, but not surprising.

Thanks, Access Hollywood, for reaffirming that no one need listen to her espouse her uninformed opinions. If only she would stop talking...

[AtlantaBill]

Let me guess - the author of this article does not know very much about black people. With the exception of the "N" word, we could care less what whites call us so long as it is not done in an insulting context or abusive tone. Having been born here in the deep south and growing up at height of the civil rights movement, I have heard virtually every verbal insult that can be hurled at people of color. The worst however was as a small child hearing my father called "thing" by his employer on a routing basis. All the others seem not to matter but that one stands out in my mind even to this day.

Based on what I saw and heard in the video, I suspect no black person would consider her comment as mean or hostile ..... that's the only thing that matters.

[lilkunta]

Atl Bill, u sure you're in Atlanta GA?
We DEF DO care about what Anglos call us.
Coloured isnt appropriate.

[GeekyGirl]

Maybe he just lives in Atlanta because the Blacks I know are definitely not comfortable with being called colored.

[bobbysgurl]

Born and raised in South Carolina. People stopped saying colored in the 60's. Colored was said by the people to your face when they probably called you the N word behind your back.

So, to hear it in 2008 by a very young person is offensive. However, from the video above, I could not tell what Lindsay said.

[TheMoreYouKnow]

I was born and raised in Tennessee, here, and raised by good parents who taught us not to be racial. It was common then, (1960s) to say colored and no, neither my family, nor I ever used the "N" word behind anybody's back. The word meant no disrespect, at least in our world. Actually I don't think I've ever referred to color at all unless there was a particular reason to. My Father and Mother taught us a lot more respect than that.....t­o look at a person's inside, not their outside, and to judge people on their merit. "Black" became the acceptable word, and then "African-American".

Give the girl a break, it's not politically correct, but isn't the "pc" thing an abomination in and of itself, in some ways? Political Correctedness leads to ignorance, too....it teaches you not to think at all. Simple good manners and politeness used to suffice. (By the way, I proudly voted for President-elect Obama) She supported Obama, she meant well here. Move on.

[Kenne]

I debated whether or not to listen to the snippet. I chose not to even bother. I was ashamed of myself for even clicking the link to see what the bruhaha was. Then I thought, "Hey, let me see what others thought and commented about it." At that point I got really depressed. People actually made this an issue!

There was a tangible quote that seems applicable here.

I won't dignify that question with an answer.

I'll leave it at that.

[teemunney]

Ditto.

[fayegibson]

to use the word colored is okay to used ,especially if you are using to describe with good intentions. I'm a black women and I know some older black people using the word all the time in conversations.

[bobbysgurl]

I'm an older black woman and I find it offensive. I hear it being used in the midwest along with light-complected and dark-complected colored. It is not with good intentions, it is with ignorance or stupidity.

Would you walk up to a white person in the south and call him a cracker, and then say it was said with good intentions?

[anghiari]

Colored???? both you and Lindsay ought to read some American history...­guess it is a step up from the N word...but this is the 21st century...­its like still calling Asian Americans.­..Oriental­s...stupid !

[1Smartchik]

I use to work with this older white woman who use to say colored and I told her we no longer say that and she thought that Black was insulting, she kind of got mad because she wanted to still say colored.

[zaza]

One hears the term 'person of color' or "people of color" all the time and nobody has a problem with. So why not a 'president of color'?

[bobbysgurl]

You are either spinning this or you really don't know how offensive it is, in 2008, for someone to call Obama, "a colored president.­" There is a vast difference, like say, "that one."

[sharpy911]

Yeah...I vote for her saying "colored." But I agree that she probably didn't mean it in a derogatory way. Maybe that is a reflection of the upper-class white youth of this country...­they can't come up with any words that are more appropriate than "colored" off the top of their heads. I wonder if she kicked herself after this interview!

[uclafan]

If she voted for him, I don't care!

[ohioan73]

I don't think she meant anything by it. My bf is white and when we first met years ago, he referred to a singer on a Pink Floyd song as "colored". I was in absolute shock. He REALLY didn't know. He thought "colored" meant bi-racial. I had to forgive him because I realized he was one of those kids who really didn't know a lot of black people personally. My white friends who are not ignorant of these things almost spit their drinks when I told them what he said. LOL!

Integration is important because then kids don't grow up with the wrong information. They just get the remnants of race relations from when their parents were kids and when it was okay to say "colored". Kids have to be updated and integrated. My black friend used a epithet that degraded Polish people at a block club meeting in Slavic Village. She got her head taken off. She simply DID NOT know. She didn't have white friends to teach her any better and neither did her mom.

We SHALL overcome. One day. :D

[anghiari]

Duh, its never been okay to say colored...­.it's just that the folks who were called colored didn't have any power...

[1Smartchik]

My brother has 2 degrees and still says Oriental, I nearly fell on the floor when he said that. My son and I talk all the time about words you shouldn't say to describe people.

[Takae]

'Oriental' isn't acceptable in the US, but it still is acceptable (but not commonly used) in the UK where it doesn't have a negative meaning. Also, in the UK, 'Asians' isn't usually used to describe east Asians in the UK, like how it is in the US, because it's reserved for south Asians.

Just a random comment.