&quot;Person of color&quot; is essentially a tortured, PC, language construction intended to enable people to avoid saying &quot;non-white&quot; (which, while descriptive, is apparently insensitive or something like that).<p>So, for example, mixed-race President Obama is a person of color, his African father is a person of color, and his White mother is not a person of color.<p>It&#x27;s fairly situational and the lines are relatively blurry - for example, if I have one Japanese grandparent, am I a person of color or a White person?