Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > America's First Black President.
>
>   I don't really get it. Does having *one* of your parents black make
> you also black? Why is it ok to say he is black, but it would sound
> strange to call him white? Is white ancestry "less hereditary" than
> black one?
>
>   If Obama married a white woman and they had kids, would those kids
> also be "black"? If your great great grandfather was black, and everyone
> else in your family tree white, does that still make you black? Exactly
> where do you stop being "black"?
>
>   AFAIK the technically correct term is mulatto:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto
>
>   (Unless that has been officially declared a racist word lately, which
> wouldn't actually surprise me.)
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Well put by my equal or superlative co-user of english.

I was just trying to see it from their "america-ownership" POV point of view.

I only came back because it was dorky of me to not include location for all the
big files, if anyone wants the latest planetarium. And there are still higher
res moon and planets available.

http://home.earthlink.net/~openuniverse/
Peace,
aQ

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