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"NEW YORK (AP) — Lindsay Lohan referred to President-elect Barack Obama as the country's "first colored president" in an interview on "Access Hollywood." Describing her experience on Election Day, Lohan said: "It was really exciting. It's an amazing feeling. It's our first colored president." A spokeswoman for Lohan didn't immediately return messages left Wednesday.

Interviewer Maria Menounos didn't question the 22-year-old actress on her use of the term. "Access Hollywood" also didn't cite her remark in its online story, but did post an "extended interview" video on its Web site that included the remark.

Lohan blogged about her support of Obama during the presidential campaign. "

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I am intrigued today about the uproar over Linsay Lohan's use of the word, 'coloured' when describing president elect, Barack Obama and it got me thinking about the hypocrisies involved in the uses of words whether referring to black people or women. The two most prominent examples in my mind right now are the uses of the words 'Nigger/Nigga' and 'Bitch/Biatch'.

Black people call themselves and each other 'Nigga' all the time. The word is rooted in an extremely painful past so it is very much understandable when a black person becomes offended if a white person or non-black person refers to them as such, but if its so painful to hear, why do black people use it so often? Is it that the word ITSELF is offensive or is it that it only becomes offensive when used by what I call a non-black?

Ditto for the use of 'bitch'. Regardless of the changing society Id never want to be called bitch. Its extremely offensive to me so even when people use it as a 'joke' it will still offend. When did it become a term of endearment? Women get offended when men call them bitches but if u look at quite a few facebook pages ull see those same women writing things such as 'Hey Bitch!' on each others' walls! Again, I ask, is the WORD itself offensive or do you only get offended when people you don't know use it?

And then we're surprised when people get confused as to what to call us.