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To: William Terrell

Blacks and Whites are meaningless terms at the fringes of the population. Very many people can't be fit into any enthnic category. Maybe it would help if some absolute authority established the midpoint of Sherwin Williams brown paint color shades. To qualify as Black or White a person's skin tone should fall on either side of that scale.

In truth, No one is truly Black and no one is truly White. We all have varying degrees of the same brown pigment. In terms of genetic characteristics, I'll wager that a European/American like me has more in common with Jesse Jackson than Jesse has with the average inhabitant of Senegal today.

The racial divisions amount to relatively arbitrary lines in the sand that were drawn by anthropologists at least a century ago. They have little scientific merit.

It's mainly libs that want to keep the concept of race alive. Without racism, liberalism would dry up and blow away.

Donning flameproof suit.


70 posted on 09/19/2004 12:26:16 PM PDT by doblin
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To: doblin
Racial characteristics involve much more than skin color.

71 posted on 09/19/2004 12:31:27 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: doblin
It's mainly libs that want to keep the concept of race alive. Without racism, liberalism would dry up and blow away.

Certainly without the race card to play, many leftist politicians would be out of work. I will use the term Black, its no different than White. I long to see the day when forms and applications don't even bother to ask what you are. (Nanimo, English, Jewish, but many generations American.)

73 posted on 09/19/2004 12:34:33 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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