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Originally Posted by northtexas
Poor fellow??? Seems like you like to demean anyone who has a differing opinion!
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You are rather easily demeaned, my poor fellow.
Look: to see skin color as a category difference among human beings--that is, to lump some humans into one category labeled "black" and others into a category labeled "white"--is racism. The idea has a history, you know. It is not a natural or obvious way to differentiate among human beings. "Race" in terms of "skin color" was unknown prior to the rise of black slavery and the shameful effort to defend it.
See Jacques Barzun,
Race: A Study in Modern Superstition (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937).