Pardon my ignorance, but what or who is POC?
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> I assume it stands for an organization called, People of Color.
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It might also be an organization, but I think shag used it in the more general sense of the term.
In some circles, it also means "prisoner of conscience."
When someone uses the acronym meaning one, and someone else hears it and thinks of the other, you have what Arabs call a "mushkula."
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."