John VanSickle wrote:
> Actually, it's the tribes themselves who set the rules on claims to 
> anything tribal nowadays.

Now, yes. :-)

> The moral of the story:  Greed is not genetic.

Or at least not racist. :-)

>> On the other hand, Americans wanted black slaves, so if you're even a 
>> tiny bit black, you're "black".
> 
> Since there were not a few non-whites who owned black slaves in the 
> south [1] and since not all blacks in the south were slaves, it was not 
> a simple case of black=slave.

Certainly. But it helped.

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   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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