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Old 05-15-2008, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS View Post
I was just trying to place your hypothetical in a realistic context. When people say that "race will no longer be important"/"less of a need...." they are usually thinking of cultural absorption of some degree. If not for that, why would these organizations' niches substantially diminish?
I think he's thinking about things like many cities used to have what was basically an Irish ghetto, and they no longer do.

But the thing is, you can change your name from Colleen O'Toole to Candace Towers. You can't really change your race (unless you're Eddie Murphy in that old SNL skit ).
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