Re: CHAT: geographical nomenclature [was Re: Language of Tetril]

Padraic Brown:

> It all depends. Race is a stupid thing in this country, and
> wastes a lot of the nation's time and effort. There are those who
> will call you "A-A" based on the "one drop rule" (a nonexistent
> rule which more or less says you're black if you have any African
> heritage in the last several centuries). Yet they will _never_
> call anyone White based on the same rule. Africans fresh off the
> boat are also A-A; really dark Indians are, too, it seems. Same
> with really dark Berbers or Italians; not to mention Australians.
>
> I'd like it if we could just drop the whole nonsense. Those who
> bitch and whine most about the deplorible race relations in the
> US are generally those that play the race card every hand and
> constantly stick their raciality in everyone's face all the time.
> If they'd just let up and let everyone be American, I bet the
> whole thing would die a timely death within a generation or two.
Hear, hear!

-Tone, colorblind