[general_re]

There are Asians who are darker-skinned than some black people, and some black people who are light enough to pass for white. Anyway, it doesn't matter - lemme ask you this. If there were such a test, that could definitively show someone's ethnicity, should taking that test be a precondition for, say, black folks to receive affirmative action benefits?

[Hajman]

There are Asians who are darker-skinned than some black people, and some black people who are light enough to pass for white.

What's your point here? The terms we give for ethnic groups may or may not represent actual skin tone, or genetics. There's not necessarily a direct relationship in what you're comparing.

Anyway, it doesn't matter - lemme ask you this. If there were such a test, that could definitively show someone's ethnicity, should taking that test be a precondition for, say, black folks to receive affirmative action benefits?

The real question is, should there be such a test? If there should be, and we have an easy enough way to test everyone genetically, then the answer would be 'yes'. Otherwise, the answer would be obviously 'no'. However, we don't need such a test for most people, because we can usually tell, through skin tone, or the family tree, what ethnic group they belong to. However, I'm still not sure what this has to do with homosexual behavior. There's no comparable benifits homosexuals should, or do, recieve.

-The Hajman-

[Dr. Frank fan]

If there were such a test, that could definitively show someone's ethnicity, should taking that test be a precondition for, say, black folks to receive affirmative action benefits?

I haven't followed the entire argument, but the answer to this question is Yes.

Which of course illustrates why affirmative action should be abolished.