Colored People's Time

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Colored People's Time, Colored-People Time, CP Time, or CPT, is an American expression (potentially pejorative) referring to a stereotype of African Americans or Latino as frequently being late. It is similar to "Bankers hours", in that the time kept is convenient to one person, but not another; dissimilar in that one refers to an authority opening and closing when it pleases, and the other a subordinate group not being as prompt or timely as the authority desires. [1] [2]

[edit] CPT in the media

Aside from the frequent use of this phrase in comedy routines and sitcoms, it has found expression in at least two other forms of media:

Colored People's Time, a 1960s public interest program produced by Detroit Public Television. [3]

Colored People's Time, a 1983 play written by Leslie Lee, consisting of 13 vignettes of African American history from the Civil War through the Montgomery bus riots. (ISBN 0-573-61894-1) [4]