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22484, RE: Yall missed the point i think
Posted by DJ_scratch_N_sniff, Sun Jul-30-00 12:05 PM
People wanna make it seem like a long time ago, there was a black tribe and a white tribe and anyone, say in North Africa or Arab peninsula is a result from mixing of the two. A blonde Austrian would be descended only from that white tribe, and a black Ethiopian only from the black tribe.

But let's face it. There's always been an in-between complection. There's always been that in-between wavy hair. Every person is genetically different from every other person. So maybe every person ought to have their own racial category. But then again, we're all related to each other, if you take it back far enough... so let's all be the same race. So many folks wanna find an in-between that separates "us" from "them", talks about "pure" and "mixed"... It's all ignorance... People talk about black and white like they really are any bigger of a difference than appearance.

Well, unfortunately around here, there is another difference. It's culture. People have been separatist to the point where "black" and "white" imply cultural and political differences and conflicts way way deeper than the trivial and scientifically unnoticable genetic differences.