On 07/13/09 11:03, Warp wrote:
>> The whites set the rules. If you were a little black, you could be a slave.
>> Simple, really.
>
>    I certainly do understand that some hundreds of years ago when oppressive
> slavery and extreme ideological racism was prevalent in the US, that is,
> when non-whites were considered inferior races, people who had non-white

	Hundreds of years ago?

	Try double digits. There are light skinned people alive in the US today 
who were once discriminated against when it was discovered that they had 
a black ancestor. Not all are that old (you know, 60's or something).

	When both the victims and the racists (KKK, etc) are still alive in the 
country, it may be asking for a lot to expect everything to be "color 
blind", as they call it.

>    IMO racism will never be eradicated as long as a mulatto is considered
> "black" and things like this are allowed to exist:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Black_Journalists
>
>    (Imagine the outcry if there was a "National Association of White
> Journalists".)

	While I get your point about NAWJ, I wouldn't necessarily oppose the 
existence of certain groups that are for African Americans, including 
perhaps NABJ. Issues of color are still present in parts of the country, 
and such organizations may prove useful in countering them.

	(I have no idea if this one does, though, and I'll grant some of these 
organizations may create more problems than solving them).

	Also, I think you're looking at it from too narrow a lens. Unlike, say, 
Europe, the US doesn't have as strong a "fixed" and "known" culture, due 
to its history (mostly immigrants or slaves, etc). It's not unusual to 
see groups related to Italian Americans, for example. Or Central 
Americans. Or of various East European background (e.g. Russian). There 
are also groups of Irish background. I'd be willing to bet there are a 
bunch of Asian background.

	I don't know if any of these are professional oriented (lawyers, 
doctors, etc), but I don't think it would raise too much of an eyebrow.

	And so you have African American groups as well. Most likely in the era 
some were formed, AA was not the usual phrase, but black was.

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