That had to be an awkward exchange. Them: "Um...well...here's your prize" OP: -___-

#13 I'm not trying to be rude but "someone of color"? Why not just say " a black person"? OP did, and no one has any problem saying anything about selling the prize to "a white person." Just kinda irks me when people are so PC about everything. But like I said I'm not trying to be rude, just curious why someone wouldn't just say black. :)

@37, well it would be the same situation if anyone with darker skin won, not just a black person, so person of color is more appropriate in the context of #11's comment.

I guess that's true, I didn't think about it like that.

Because black people are not the only people of color. @37 I think

@40 Yes it's been explained, I wasn't thinking in that context and it never crossed my mind.

Guys, OP labeled himself as "black". Therefore, "black" would be acceptable. We're not talking about a population, demographic, or even an ethnic group, here. We're talking about OP. He, by himself. Brown, yellow, red are irrelevant here.

@45 Actually were discussing #13's comment which was about what the organizers should have taken into consideration when setting up the competition.

In this instance "a person of colour" is correct as they were talking about more than one colour, however I understand you point 37. Sometimes I think people take "political correctness" way to far. For instance someone who was mentally challenged (which probably isn't even the correct term now) used to be know as "retarted", then people would use that term to make fun of people, so they changed the PC term to "handicapped," then people used that term to make fun of other people, so then they changed it to "mentally challenged" and so on. Till it gets to the point where we don't even know what's politically correct and we say the wrong term and are labeled as rude or discriminatory. Unfortunately people will always use a word (such as black or mentally challenged) as a derogatory and rude word, & I don't know that changing the word really solves anything. For instance if I say Merry Christmas, I am actually wishing people a good holiday and if people don't celebrate Christmas there is no reason to be offended that I said it during that season. In reality I don't know a single person that doesn't celebrate Christmas & is offended by that term, yet we assume people will be offended so now we can't say Merry Christmas in stores but only "Happy Holidays." Some people need to be less sensitive and some people need to realize that most people don't take offense to things as much as we think. *sorry, rant over*

Just to add to the validity of the above rant, I actually don't celebrate Christmas because of my religious beliefs but I couldn't care less if someone says merry christmas or happy holidays. It's not being offensive, if anything they think they're being nice to you by saying it. So I completely agree with the comment above and don't know why people get so dumb about EVERYTHING nowadays. (side note- dumb started as a term for mentally challenged ones as well. The more you know)

Thank you 79! I'm glad you don't take offence when someone says Merry Christmas to you, as they are just trying to be polite and it is that time of year. You don't see people freaking out when someone says "Happy Halloween" to someone who doesn't celebrate Halloween. There's no need to not be allowed to say those greetings in stores in my opinion.

#67, You misspelled retarded.

It's definitely better than actually tanning.

@26, Sure but that doesn't mean people want it. Most people aren't vain enough to care about tanning of any sort or do care but would rather not be tan (plenty of people don't find it attractive). It's really just a shit prize.

Have you actually MET body builders? It is as much about looking pretty as being strong and sculpted! Yes, they are all orange, and I work with them every day...it's not a bad thing.

Actually the spray tans have changed a lot in the past years and look like a real tan now. I complimented someone on their tan and they told me it was a spray tan and I was shocked. Of course there are the exceptions and if you do it all the time or really dark then it may look awful. But I bet there are a lot of people you know or see that do spray tans and you aren't even aware it's fake.

Wishi could thumbs up this more! Brilliant.

Damn you beat me to the punch line.

Damn it, just when I had a good joke too!

Someone who finally decided to use the prize instead of selling. Progress people, progress.