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Nebulous
Minmatar
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan |
Posted - 2008.11.05 17:57:00 - [ 1]
Not that it really matters of course, but with lewis hamilton being crowned the first black formula one champion and obama crowned the first black president, I was just wondering why a mixed race person (white and black parents) is being described as black? |
kor anon
Amarr
FISKL GUARDS
RED.OverLord |
Posted - 2008.11.05 17:58:00 - [ 2]
no idea. But since when was black a race? i always thought it was a skin tone |
Jim McGregor |
Posted - 2008.11.05 17:59:00 - [ 3]
Edited by: Jim McGregor on 05/11/2008 17:59:23
You got a better word? White? :)
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Caldari Provisions |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:01:00 - [ 4]
Mocha |
Falcon Troy
Caldari
Best Path Inc.
Atlas Alliance |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:06:00 - [ 5]
There's only one race: Human. The discriminations we have are against ethnicity and skin color.
Obama is black. |
Jim McGregor |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:06:00 - [ 6]
 Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Mocha
 If only our creator had made everybody the same color. Maybe it was a human IQ test. Will the humans start fighting about the color of their skin? If so, classify as morons and move on. Maybe thats why Jesus hasnt returned?  |
kor anon
Amarr
FISKL GUARDS
RED.OverLord |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:08:00 - [ 7]
Originally by: Falcon Troy
There's only one race: Human. The discriminations we have are against ethnicity and skin color.
Obama is black.
Ill give you a cookie for that. and obama is mocha as deitrich aptly pointed out  |
Benny Hill
Caldari
General Thrusters |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:11:00 - [ 8]
Originally by: Nebulous
Not that it really matters of course, but with lewis hamilton being crowned the first black formula one champion and obama crowned the first black president, I was just wondering why a mixed race person (white and black parents) is being described as black?
Liberals in the US try to create victim classes whenever they can, and then they need to pad the numbers of their victim classes. |
Galen Naranek
Galactic Patrol
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Posted - 2008.11.05 18:16:00 - [ 9]
Originally by: Falcon Troy
There's only one race: Human. The discriminations we have are against ethnicity and skin color.
Obama is black.
Race (noun) Etymology: Middle French, generation, from Old Italian razza Date: 1580 1: a breeding stock of animals 2 a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics 3 a: an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species ; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b: breed c: a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traitsRace is one of the ways human beings are categorized. Get over it. |
Falcon Troy
Caldari
Best Path Inc.
Atlas Alliance |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:19:00 - [ 10]
Originally by: Galen Naranek
Originally by: Falcon Troy
There's only one race: Human. The discriminations we have are against ethnicity and skin color.
Obama is black.
Race (noun)
Etymology: Middle French, generation, from Old Italian razza
Date: 1580
1: a breeding stock of animals
2 a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
3 a: an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species ; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group
b: breed
c: a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits
Race is one of the ways human beings are categorized. Get over it.
Isn't the world a great place? |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2008.11.05 18:20:00 - [ 11]
Originally by: Falcon Troy
Obama is black.
He's mulatto. |
Falcon Troy
Caldari
Best Path Inc.
Atlas Alliance |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:22:00 - [ 12]
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baltec1 |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:27:00 - [ 13]
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Fifi LeFume
No Trademark
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Posted - 2008.11.05 18:36:00 - [ 14]
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Jim McGregor |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:37:00 - [ 15]
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Verx Interis
Amarr
SkyNet.
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Posted - 2008.11.05 18:37:00 - [ 16]
Put Obama into the 1950's.
Looking the way he did, would he be able to walk into a "Whites only" restaurant? |
Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Caldari Provisions |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:40:00 - [ 17]
Originally by: Verx Interis
Put Obama into the 1950's.
Looking the way he did, would he be able to walk into a "Whites only" restaurant?
Find me a time machine and we'll test it. In the mean time lets stick to the present. |
kor anon
Amarr
FISKL GUARDS
RED.OverLord |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:40:00 - [ 18]
Originally by: Verx Interis
Put Obama into the 1950's.
Looking the way he did, would he be able to walk into a "Whites only" restaurant?
neither would the japanese but that doesnt make them black |
Midge Mo'yb
Bat Country
Goonswarm Federation |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:40:00 - [ 19]
Originally by: Verx Interis
Put Obama into the 1950's.
Looking the way he did, would he be able to walk into a "Whites only" restaurant?
he could walk wherever he wanted... wether or not he would have walked out is another matter :P |
Davina Braben |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:42:00 - [ 20]
Once upon a time it used to be " one drop". |
Ebon Desire |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:45:00 - [ 21]
Speaking of skin colour.
There is a Thai saying.
When god created mankind, he used dough. He baked his first batch but left them in the oven too long and produced the black man. He tried again but didn't leave then in the oven long enough and made the white man. On his final go he got is just right and produced the Thai people.
(Something along those lines)
Skin colour means sod all, unless it's green, then call a doctor :) |
Ryan Scouse'UK
omen.
IDLE EMPIRE |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:55:00 - [ 22]
Originally by: Ebon Desire
Speaking of skin colour.
There is a Thai saying.
When god created mankind, he used dough. He baked his first batch but left them in the oven too long and produced the black man. He tried again but didn't leave then in the oven long enough and made the white man. On his final go he got is just right and produced the Thai people.
(Something along those lines)
Skin colour means sod all, unless it's green, then call a doctor :)
So when he made the 1st batch did he use to big a knife to make such big features as there nose etc? The second time around did he use the perfect knife , the third time around he thought a smaller knife would give him the perfect result which gave little tiny slit eyes.. Can you see were am goin with this ur logic is flawed. |
kor anon
Amarr
FISKL GUARDS
RED.OverLord |
Posted - 2008.11.05 18:58:00 - [ 23]
he didnt say he belived it he was just saying its a thai saying, which says quite a few things tbh |
FOl2TY8
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation |
Posted - 2008.11.05 19:01:00 - [ 24]
Originally by: Ryan Scouse'UK
Originally by: Ebon Desire
Speaking of skin colour.
There is a Thai saying.
When god created mankind, he used dough. He baked his first batch but left them in the oven too long and produced the black man. He tried again but didn't leave then in the oven long enough and made the white man. On his final go he got is just right and produced the Thai people.
(Something along those lines)
Skin colour means sod all, unless it's green, then call a doctor :)
So when he made the 1st batch did he use to big a knife to make such big features as there nose etc? The second time around did he use the perfect knife , the third time around he thought a smaller knife would give him the perfect result which gave little tiny slit eyes.. Can you see were am goin with this ur logic is flawed.
Dude he totally busted you... People aren't made of dough... |
baltec1 |
Posted - 2008.11.05 19:07:00 - [ 25]
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Thorliaron
Brutor Tribe
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Posted - 2008.11.05 19:14:00 - [ 26]
well him and hamilton are not white so |
Xen Gin
Silurian Operations
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Posted - 2008.11.05 19:20:00 - [ 27]
Originally by: Nebulous
Not that it really matters of course, but with lewis hamilton being crowned the first black formula one champion and obama crowned the first black president, I was just wondering why a mixed race person (white and black parents) is being described as black?
My cousins (four of them) who are mixed race deem themselves black because they are not white. Whether that's because they chose to or because of the society they live in (South London), I don't know. |
Magorath
KR0M
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Posted - 2008.11.05 19:24:00 - [ 28]
Considering how 'tolerant' people are meant to be that people still make a fuss about 'the first black' whatever. Wow they are black, big freaking deal... |
Khemul Zula
Amarr
Keisen Trade League
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Posted - 2008.11.05 19:30:00 - [ 29]
Edited by: Khemul Zula on 05/11/2008 19:30:57 Originally by: Davina Braben
Once upon a time it used to be "one drop".
This. Maybe not that exactly, but what that evolved into. It's used a lot for changing demographics to prove different arguements. Prison statistics are big one (ie: you want to prove black people make up a higher percentage of the prison population so you include anyone with any 'black', sometimes even spanish, background). In reality 'black' is not even about skin color anymore outside of the stastical use. It's more about culture and behavior. Hence why the question came up months ago on whether Obama was truely 'black'. It wasn't about his skin tone, it was about his background and the way he behaved. For some people he wasn't 'black enough'. |
Nebulous
Minmatar
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan |
Posted - 2008.11.05 19:44:00 - [ 30]
Going off topic slightly it may interest some of you that being anything other than what we describe as "black" due to our ancestors moving to less sunny continents is actually a mutation rather an evolution change, therefore all people who are classed as white (me included) are actually living, breathing human mutations, it is not a humans evolutionary path to turn white. |
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