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Black, Asian and minority ethnic.
Also, black is a colour, Black is an identity.
I see the point Habeeb is making and has been said, on an individual level calling someone BAME could serve to erase their individual identity and therefore their specific rights as a person.
I can see it being analogous to calling a transperson an "LGBTQ+ person". Each letter has its own issues and we have fucked over each one differently over time. It is a term that is (unfortunately) useful now to further discussion. Ideally, we shouldn't need to separate white people from everyone else and straight people from everyone else, but it is a product of the issues white and straight people have created by being racist and homophobic/transphobic for so long.