It's not derogatory here in the U.S. either. We have the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I know lots of colored people who belong to the organization. But in the U.S. the population is being trained to focus on HOW something is said rather than WHAT'S being said. Notice how a thread about crime is turned into a semantical witch hunt by the hateful thought police. If the members of the NAACP are willing to let themselves be called colored in exchange for money, that's good enough for me. Freedom of speech and all that.