[A.J.Armitage]

I'll be sure to remember that next time I go to Club Med in Guadalupe, near the Equator. While I am having lunch with my new acquaintances, Sven, from Sweden, and Akiri, from Ghana, I'll mention to them to use the exact same suntan lotion, since, the apparent difference in their skin color is actually a social construct.

But an Italian and a North African aren't very different. And the North African isn't very different from an Ethiopian, and they're black. It's not the case that's you're simply in one category or another.

The idea of simple categories comes from the historical accident that early America was settled by immigrants from northern Europe and slaves from equitorial Africa.

I bet if they'd look specifically at North Africans, they'd have both European and African markers.

[FreedomCalls]

But an Italian and a North African aren't very different. And the North African isn't very different from an Ethiopian, and they're black. It's not the case that's you're simply in one category or another.

The idea of simple categories comes from the historical accident that early America was settled by immigrants from northern Europe and slaves from equitorial Africa.

The existence of ovals does not mean that that there are no such things as circles or squares.

Given that circles and squares exist, we can take square-ish ovals and place them in the category of square-like objects and we can take round-ish ovals and place them in the category of circle-like objects. Questions of race can be handled similarly.

[tallhappy]

I bet if they'd look specifically at North Africans, they'd have both European and African markers.

That was the case. That was one of the overwhelming findings -- that the markers are not static.

[nettlsome]

There is an understandable reluctance to let go of a pride and principal. We are living in the short age in which this becomes all intermingled. No government or specific power to do the oversite or preservation of race for specific attributes to mankind exists,to my knowledge, in this country. Looking at even recent history one sees the sacrifice of one's future for another one's advance but knowinging and trusting there is a connectivity on a level higher than skin color we go further down the road we believe a high road because of compassion and hope.