13. "I'm part of the short race" In response to In response to 0 Sun Dec-21-03 02:27 PM
I'm 5'5, and there's a whole race of people my height and under.
Just like blacks and whites can be socially turned into different races, us shorts can be separated from you talls. The genetic differences are the same, we just look at it differently.
Think of it this way:
Tall=white Short=black
Say talls believed that shorts' lack of height is tied to a lack of intellectual growth.
Or that talls didn't want shorts dating their kids.
Or that talls brought a boatload of shorts over from a nation where shortness was rampant, sold the shorts into a system where they weren't people but property, and then freed them 300 years later, only to keep them from having any chance of regaining any chance of having an equal opportunity to compete with the talls in any area of life, financial or otherwise.
When you think about it this way, race is just a phony system designed by society to keep people that look alike superior to people that don't look like them.