@Hunter
That way (for example without the word 'person' added ["gay person", "black person"]), they are being dehumanized as a stereotyped object.

@93 BiDanFan: I get choked up over the Whos' holiday classic song, Welcome Christmas, too! For me it's up there with A Charlie Brown Christmas. My favorite part of How the Grinch Stole Christmas is when the Whos---the tall and the small---come out of their houses and, with Christmas bells ringing---the Whos one and all, start singing.
Fun Grinch trivia fact: Thurl Ravenscroft, the TV commercial voice of Tony the Tiger from Kellogg's Frosted Flakes sang the song, You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.
You can't beat or remake the classics.