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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundiata: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Miguel Antunes: "Thing is, AE, afaik didn't call other "blacks" Black. That was the name they reserved for themselves. Or did they?" Poorly phrased it might have been, but an answer from you Wally would be appreciated. [/QUOTE]Rasol answered you actually.. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Rasol: [b]In the Book of Gates the Rm.t and the Nehesi are labled Km.t[/b][/QUOTE] :) [QUOTE]Originally posted by Miguel Antunes: The oldest use of white that I know off is by Benjamin Franklyn, who says that only an handfull of Europeans are white and the rest are swarthy. White identity seems to have appeared in the colonies, and frankly should have stayed there. [/QUOTE]Your ignorance is bewildering Miguel, though slightly entertaining nonetheless. :) As it turns out, you're hopelessly wrong. The Greeks referred to women as white and also designated this trait to many of the Persians. Many Arabs of the Middle Ages referred to Europeans as whites and the Songhay referenced the Berber and Arab merchants at Timbuktu as "white minorities", who were under the responsibility of the Korei-Farma. "White person" is not a new concept, sorry to inform you. Once again it is apparent that you're a rebel of practical knowledge and common sense, and expect everyone else to go along the same lines of thinking as in your isolated, radically unique world, devoid of blacks and whites. [b]Black person[/b] - [i]a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)[/i] - thefreedictionary.com ^^We have pointed out repeatedly that your worldly delusions are completely irrelevant to the real world and how things operate here. On earth, we have a system of nomenclature that us humans use to simplify and differentiate. In this case, the universally accepted appellation, "black person", literally denotes a dark-skinned native of Africa; the designation is well defined. In the english language, which is also a part of earth culture, we have something called a homophone. A Homophone is one word that sounds exactly like another, yet has a different meaning/connotation. "Black" is a homophone, in which it can mean all sorts of things, from "wicked", to "gloomy", to a descriptive for an extremely dark color, to African natives and descendants who posses a relatively fair amount of pigment. For you to deconstruct this concept of black people in Africa, one must simultaneously deconstruct everything else that literally doesn't suit your definition of "pure black".. Is "wicked" equatable to the color black? If not, I'd think according to your criteria that the definition be changed. Same with "gloomy", "black budget", "black market", "black balled", "black comedy", etc. Since none of these apply to the purity of the said color in which you attribute it. Disregard "black" being applied to disaster ("Black Friday") also, or security ("black operations).. The only "black" that exists is the black which is devoid of light, even though this is contrary to everything anyone else understands about the english language, I guess your opinion is valid since it is YOUR opinion right? :rolleyes: Let's try this once more: [b]Black person[/b] - [i]a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)[/i] - thefreedictionary.com Unless you can give a good reason as to why a standard English definition of a word or phrase should be thrown out at your convenience, and until you provide evidence that this definition does not apply to AEs, I see no point whatsoever to your "Never-Ending Babble".. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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