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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[UWNBM]

WHATEVER!

[IMMA WAKE]

Why would anyone take offense to being called colored if they are of color. Black people are identified by many descriptions. If you ask many African Americans many of them prefer any one or each of these. Her comment was not noteworthy. She meant no harm. Lindsey is beautiful. Give her a break.

[UWNBM]

I agree...drama not necessary.

[Lurker50]

Why go back in history and pull out an outdated term and use it for a group of people who already have two names to identify with - Black and African American. Especially when we are working on all being called Americans. I guess if she had called him a "boy" that would have been fine too. After all she voted for him and she is "beautiful." Yeah, give her a break.

[shaaronie]

I guess N egro would have made your head explode!

[rbryanh]

The problem here is not determine the preferred euphemisms for ethnic groups, but that we're consuming media coverage of a culturally inert nonentity.

Any chance we'll ever judge media by the quality of its content, rather than the quantity? Or said another way, why are people writing this bilge when there are sock drawers to reorganize and nose hairs to pluck?

[anicca]

Very well said. Politics may have changed, but not the media.

[twokidsonecat]

I live in a part of the country with very, very few African-Americans. Is that an okay word to use? Anyway my point being......I have no idea what words are appropriate, or inappropriate. So, seeing the article I'd say the word colored is inappropriate? Excuse my ignorance, but I need to be educated here.

[NewtonSylmar]

"Colored"...not O.K.

[mesut]

it really isn't. Try having it typed on your birth certificate in this day and age.

[badger500]

"Colored" is these days not considered appropriate, and is associated with the history of racism in the country. However, "person of color" is considered acceptable, and can be extended to any non-white person--not just black people--and is a term that came into vogue in the 1980s/1990s.

"Black" is simple, elegant, and considered fine (despite few people in the U.S. having a truly black skin tone; in the same way, few "white" persons are actually white-skinned), and is often used to describe people who are either of full African descent or of mixed descent (African and European, like Mr. Obama).

"African American" is a particularly respectful and thoughtful usage, though a little awkward to say repeatedly. Thus "black" is often used. And so, "Barack Obama is our first black president-elect" is an uncontroversial and perfectly respectable statement.

[twokidsonecat]

Thank you for your respectful response. I appreciate it.

[crutnacker]

Who gives a ????

Of course, I did watch it.

[bubbuh]

Cmon, Lindsay Lohan any aspect of politics? Quite picking on the girl. Give her the privacy to grow up and straighten out.

By the way, the "survey" should have a check-off for "who cares."

[DeeW]

Yeah, it does kind of sound like that's what she said. More importantly does this matter?

I've actually never seen her in a movie or heard her sing ... I only see or hear about her in articles like these. That doesn't bode well for her career, I guess.

[twokidsonecat]

Not really newsworthy, is it?

[Adrienne Williams - Huffpost Blogger]

She said colored... and.... a bad choice of words but not deafening -- I wasn't upset by it, just correct her that word is dead and move on... my mother still uses the word, so someone at her household told her it was a normal word to use, perhaps as a child.

[UWNBM]

It is still used by some older people...are they to be condemned? I think not. Let's focus on more serious racial offenses that happen daily, OK?

[bobbysgurl]

My Mom is in her late '80's, and she doesn't use the word colored. We are from South Carolina. It was what whites called us back then, so we adopted the word. It is as simple as that. Not that it was okay, but that it was acceptable because whites called us that instead of the N word.

[tossytosser]

blah blah blah

[gisellestwocents]

Well, he is biracial and a person of color. He doesn't have a problem with that being acknowledged. It's just one aspect of who he is. It's nothing to get all hypersensitvie about. Relax people. He's cool with who he is...really.

[bobbysgurl]

I could not understand what she said.

Come to Kansas. You may hear colored, light complected, or dark complected. I've heard the terms from whites, blacks, and hispanics. Maybe it's a midwest thing.

[PJNoir]

Its Lindsay Lohan, folks. How important is she? Ignore her. Learn to ignore.

[MRSCLOONEY35]

I've never heard anyone younger than 80 use that word and not since the 70's. Isn't she from New Jersey? I didn't think they used that word that far north. Who raised that woman? Oh, never mind I just remembered.

[UWNBM]

Isn't she from New Jersey?

Long Island...so?

[Sock]

She looks awful. The hard living has really aged her beyond her years.

She did say colored but she obviously did not mean to be offensive.