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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: Lioness some people.. for example some Indians called themselves Blks not based on oppression from lite-skinned folks but on what they think is cool your distaste for folks calling themselves Blks does not change this.. do we have to go over this again??.. "It is a fact that in this country when a child is born they anoint him once a week with oil of sesame, and this makes him grow much darker than when he was born. For I assure you that the darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than those who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and idols black and their devils white as snow. For they say that God and all the saints are black and the devils are all white..." Marco Polo. [/QUOTE]There is a difference between people who say their skin is brown from them saying they are "blacks" ("browns" being more accurate) as an identity. Also the term "black" as it is used by average people America does not just mean a person of dark skin. As average people and the media and U.S. census use this term it is meant dark skin person of African descent . Darker skinned Indian people in America sometimes experience racism based on their skin color but do they identify themselves as "black people" ? Don't ask me ask an Indian person. Also when there is a grocery store run by a dark skin Pakistani person would the average "black" person ("brown" more accurate) say the this person was black? Also, historically, Africans did not categorize themselves by skin color, similarly Chinese and other Asians living today do not identify themsleves as a color. They might describe the complexion of their skin but they don't identify themselves as a category named by a color. Of course "black" and "white" are not accurate skin color terms. Why is "black" even used when most people are "browns" anyway? So are Indians black white or mulatto? This question assume that these categories "black" "white" and "mulatto" are valid and are a three color method of categorizing people that people have always subscribed to. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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