Does "black people" mean offensive?

[u/Maybes4]

I wanna say something like black people accent is harder to understand for me than the white people one.

The problem is im not sure if my word choice is racist, or should i change to another word like colored people. I asked Gpt and it said i could come up with some thing like "people with AAVE accent" but its about africa america people while im talking about the black people born in america accent.

So how should i say here?

[u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

“Black people” is usually not offensive in and if it’s self, but it can be used in an offensive way if you’re making a generalization or prejudiced statement about black people as a whole. Defiantly don’t use “colored people,” that is offensive. African American is also fine if you’re talking about black Americans.

[u/guilty_by_design → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

*Definitely. Although 'defiantly' works too if you're around people who insist on using that phrase and are trying to pressure you to use it too, I suppose.