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To: a fool in paradise

I was just noticing that myself... also no hispanic although I do understand the controversy with that. I remember when my granddaughter was in 1st grade her black teacher said for the white people to go to one side of the room and the black people to the other. She - Puerto Rican/white mix started crying because she didn’t know what side of the room she should go. My first thought was what if a white teacher had made that request?

Anyway, my other question is about “mixed” how much percentage of Negro does a person need to remain Negro or what percentage makes them white? And so on. And what do we keep on insisiting that race needs to be identified? Can’t we be just people?


42 posted on 01/11/2010 9:07:12 AM PST by myrabach
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To: myrabach

In Africa years ago the measuring tool for whether a mixed race child was Caucasian or Negro was whether a comb could be pulled through their hair without problem. Children in families with the same parents would often be divided as to their race based on that determination.


46 posted on 01/11/2010 9:43:03 AM PST by imfrmdixie
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To: myrabach

That is a play on the teacher who did the same thing with blue eyes and brown eyed kids which did teach them something important.


55 posted on 01/11/2010 10:36:20 AM PST by celtic gal (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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