Why are some people so offe..

If most people are so much against being prejudice, why are some of those same people so offended when someone says colored, black, the N word, or any other sort of word like that? Why does it matter? It's just a simple word... For example, I get bad feedback on some of my questions just b/c I said 'colored'... and I know that 'color' is black, white, green, red, or yellow, and everyone's considered colored, basically, in a literal way. But I don't mean it literally. I just figure it's nicer to say that than 'n*****' or some such other bad sounding words b/c I know a lot of people would be offended... Why don't those people just drop it, if they're not prejudice? I'm not prejudice, and I wouldn't care if someone called me a cracker or a white person or whatever... It's just a word... Nothing more.... It's just a way of identifying someone. For example, "The girl with the brown hair, the boy with the blue shirt, or the black boy or the boy with the dark skin."

I like to color with black crayons!!!!!

well, it just has something to do with history. Black ppl (like me) don't like it b/c white ppl used to call us that when we were slaves.