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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
Wow, thanks for telling me what I think about the word racism and that I think I own it. I never knew that. I guess you learn something new everyday 
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It's just a theory, don't let it bother you too much. This more or less related back to Mr. Farrakhan's groupies. I don't believe word ownership is really keeping too many folks awake at night.
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WRONG!
Race is a PURELY SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION. There is no scientific basis for it, it is created wholly by individuals. The same way that the meaning of racism is relative, so is the meaning of the word RACE.
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Ok, until you can accept the opposite side, i.e. that racism can ALSO be considered the physical characterstics of an individual, whether you see it or if it's genetic, then we are at a stalemate here. Some would say it's purely social, others will argue biological.
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She never said or implied that. What she SAID was
Your ONE experience and that ONE Militant Black Man, and any other SINGLUAR example CANNOT...
let me emphasize that...
CANNOT
be used to indicate any sort of alarming trend.
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Actually I was referring more to librasoul22 statement that followed that one above:
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Now when the original poster of this topic or ANYONE can come up with SEVERAL instances of African-Americans/Blacks/etc. committing hate crimes on a Caucasian-American (or any sort of widespread form of discrimination/oppression), then maybe there will be a valid issue.
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A statment like that just sounds ridiculous at best
librasoul22,
The only reason why I even went to that whole "ownership" scenario, which I regret now because it's really just making this post a big ugly mess (my fault), is because this has been a problem before with the n-word. Apparently on a different debate, there is this whole ownership argument that has to go with who can use or freely say the n-word, and i felt there was a correlation between the two.
I also just want to say, i make no assumptions about anyone here, so take from that what you wish. Formal apologies should go out to librasoul22, lovelyivy84, and neicy81 for making this worse than it really should have been...
RUgreek