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To: Vendome
Comedian George Carlin talked about the absurdity of race classifications. He also brought up South Africa.

The same would apply to South Africa. Suppose a white racist from South Africa becomes an American citizen,
couldn’t he call himself an african-american, if for no other reason than just to bother black people. And what
about a black person born in South Africa who becomes an American citizen, is he an african-american or is he
a South African American? Or is he simply a South African American African-American?

George Carlin on ‘People of Colour’

19 posted on 03/19/2015 3:03:10 PM PDT by QT3.14 (GRUBER - HARK 2016 /s)
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To: QT3.14

Liberals should be taught that labels divide people, and I think that we can do with fewer labels, not more.
-George Carlin


20 posted on 03/19/2015 3:13:13 PM PDT by Canedawg
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To: QT3.14; Shimmer1

Dunno, and I get the joke but, what if a Southerner traveled to Mnahattan, Yankee territory.

Would he be a Southern American?

A guy from Hatteras goes to Calipornia, is he a Cape Man?

Another goes to Idaho for some fishing and he’s from Jupiter Island....”Out of this World”?

Still, a woman lives on the shore of Lake Ten Killer, while her friend lives on the shore of Lake Mankiller, both in Oklahoma. When they get together is it a family reunion?

If one brother lives in Oklahoma in an area known as Little Dixie and has coffee with his other brother who lives in Georgia, also known as Dixie, is it a Klan meeting (LOL!! I pulled that joke on my brother when he lived in Atlanta and I lived in little Dixie. Was a riot with drinks)


23 posted on 03/19/2015 3:21:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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