POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Racism in the US : Re: Racism in the US Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:18:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Racism in the US  
From: Darren New
Date: 13 Jul 2009 12:50:20
Message: <4a5b65cc$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Interestingly enough, there were a number of black pundits and spokespeople 
>> claiming Barak Obama isn't black because his African parent was actually 
>> born in Africa or something.  Basically, his ancestors were never slaves, so 
>> he isn't really an African-American.
> 
>   How does that make any sense?

I'm not sure it does. I think many people thought it didn't make sense.

>   I suppose that when the naming is humoristic enough, the big public
> will let it pass... :)

No, actually, there was quite a shit-storm, with lots of peole screaming for 
heads or at least expulsion for even suggesting such a thing.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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