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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] And some believe that Black and White are oversimplified categories which carry a lot of historical baggage and should be abandoned. [QUOTE] This article argues that the use of the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ as human categories, together with the symbolic use of these terms, help to sustain the perception of Africans as inferior, because their categorical use was accompanied by a long-standing set of conceptual relationships that used the terms symbolically to connote a range of bad and good traits, respectively. This set of associations creates an underlying semantic system that normalised the assumed superiority of those labelled white and the assumed inferiority of those labelled black. The use of this dichotomy as a human categorising device cannot be separated from its symbolic use. It is therefore incumbent on egalitarians to abandon either the symbolic or the categorical use of the dichotomy. I argue that abandoning the categorical use is the preferable option because the negative symbolism of the term ‘black’ is deeply embedded in the English language and in Christianity. [/QUOTE][URL=https://tinyurl.com/4u7keskv]Africans are not black: why the use of the term ‘black’ for Africans should be abandoned - Kwesi Tsri[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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