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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Arabian can be considered an ethnic, cultural, and regional grouping. The distinctions they make within that grouping can be based on religion, skin color, and so forth. To use racial subcategories is really unnecessary. But, if people insist on using "black" and "white" categories, a large percentage of people in Arabic countries would fit into AmeriKKKa's "white" category.
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Perhaps, but definately not the case in Darfur/N. Sudan. Unlike in S. Sudan, these people are in every way racially the same; the vast overwhelming majority of so-called "Arabs" are indistinguishable from their neighbors. The only Arabs in Sudan are the Bedouins, and even they're more Sudanese than not.
In fact, I actually believe it does more damage to the situation when reporters, commentators, and politicians enable the "Arabs" by identifying them as such, as if they are a different race, while knowing full well that they are not. Rather, the "Arabs" should be called what they are and asked why they are killing their Sudanese brothers and why they are attacking their
fellow Africans over this territory that they have shared for all their history.