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That's what I regularly put on my loan applications and such. In the US
they have government "monitoring" to ensure equal opportunity, so at
the end of such things as loan applications there is a race and sex
section. It asks if you are male or female, and then your race. Finally
it asks if you are or are not hispanic or latino. Not sure why that
question is seperate. One can check as many boxes as apply. I encourage
my children to do the same thing at school where they ask such
questions. We all respnd to such things by marking "all of the above" -
so we're caucasian african american asian native american latinos. Of
course that may not be entirely accurate. I can't say for certain that
I have native american or asian heritage. It's more likely that my
ancestors diverged prior to the seperations that caused the
distinctions attributed to these "races". But it's also very possible
that someone in my ancestry was asian and/or native american given the
number of ancestors I have. <br>
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<pre wrap="">"Lee Corbin" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com"><lcorbin@rawbw.com></a> declared:
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<pre wrap="">Yes, there are racists who'd maintain that the reality is that
because she has "some black blood" that makes her black.
They're using the words in the way that we describe clean
water and contaminated water: if you mix three gallons of
of clean water with one gallon of contaminated water, then
you have four gallons of contaminated water.
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This is hilarious. Or it would be if it wasn't so tragic.
It also means that we are all black. Every one of us, without exception.
(reminds me of Steve Martin in one of his earlier films, when he was
still funny. The Screwup, or The Failure, something like that, where
he's surprised to learn that he's not black. (See? Spike was right! I'm
composing this offline, and i don't have any god-like powers of knowing
what Steve Martin's films are called!))
ben zaiboc
(The Klutz?
The Lame-o?
The Retard?
The Upfuck? - ok, clutching at straws now)
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