To: Modernman
When I say that with inter-marriage you'll eventually see white people with SSA, I really mean to say that you'll eventually see people who look white, but who have one or more black ancestors, with the disease. My point is that SSA is now almost excusively a disease found in black Americans (though, is there really such a thing as a "pure" black American? There was a lot more mixing of blood going on in America's history than a lot of people are willing to admit), but there is nothing preventing white, or Asian, or hispanic Americans from getting the disease.All you have really said is that humans, like various dogs cats etc., can interbreed. This has nothing to do with the existance of race per se.
100 posted on
02/09/2004 6:19:41 PM PST by
briant
To: briant
All you have really said is that humans, like various dogs cats etc., can interbreed. This has nothing to do with the existance of race per se. That's because, as has been pointed out on this thread, there doesn't seem to be any objective way to define race.
111 posted on
02/09/2004 7:00:34 PM PST by
Modernman
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