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Old 2009-05-01, 11:01 AM   #1961
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Originally Posted by Dean View Post
So the color of their skin is not what they were referring to when they said they were black or white or that a piece of furniture was good for a black or white person? That was just a coincidence? And was the woman who said she was a black woman, not a woman?

Are black and white more a state of mind or belief system than the color of their skin?

The two guys singing were white (color wise, not sure what they were internally), what should we take from that?

Is there a device like the Scientologists E-meter that can tell a person's level of blackness or whiteness, or does that require a Jedi master? Wait, that is darkness. Are blackness and darkness related?

I am so confused...

And did you see the Behind the scenes footage? 10 Gauge is really a 30 aught 6? I could swear it is Nick is right at the end...

And is any of this related to being a PC or a Mac? I think I'm a Commodore Pet or a PDP 11(teletype) if it is the first computer you used.
Whether or not you believe in "race", it is an actual anthropological concept, and the races have names. Hispanic is a race. White is a race. Black is a race.

Just because black and white as names for races happen to sorta match the color of the skin of people of those races, does not imply that "hispanic" must also refer to a color. The hispanic race is not named after color the way white and black are, so the question "what color is hispanic" is nonsense.

That's like assuming that bananas should be called "yellows" because oranges are named after their orange color. Does "what color is banana?" make any sense?
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