I am people of color

[Ostap]

In response, the board president, a professor of ethnic studies at a local college, called me anti-people of color. I am people of color, I'm half Jamaican.
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Hello. Is "people of color" here an adjectival? Otherwise, why is it not "a person of color"?

 

[Glizdka]

This is more about taking the exact words someone has used. and using them as a counter. The exact words thrown at you are "You are anti-people of color", so the most powerful response is to take these exact words and throw them back at the protagonist in your response.

 

[Ostap]

This is more about taking the exact words someone has used. and using them as a counter. The exact words thrown at you are "You are anti-people of color", so the most powerful response is to take these exact words and throw them back at the protagonist in your response.

Like when we use quotation marks: I am "people of color"?

 

[jutfrank]

The prefix anti here means something like 'against'. So the whole phrase means 'against people of colour'.

 

[Rover_KE]

This is more about taking the exact words someone has used. and using them as a counter. The exact words thrown at you are "You are anti-people of color", so the most powerful response is to take these exact words and throw them back at the protagonist in your response.

Exactly. It's like when an off-duty or plain-clothes police officer is told by somebody 'Get away from me or I'll call the police', and he replies 'I am the police'.