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Originally posted by Charles:
Ethnicity pertains to races or peoples, not to skin colors. Not all black people share the same ethnicity, some blacks are African, others Jamaican, Carribian, etc. The same with white people. There are Italians, Germans, English, Scottish, Polish, Jewish, Russian, etc. These are all different "white" ethnicities.
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First of all you are so waaaay off, Ethnicity DOES not refer to a race of people. It refers to a shared and common cultural heritage amongst groups of peoples. The example you just made about being Italian, German, English, Scottish is NATIONALITY, for crying out loud were you awake in global history class. I was born in Jamaica so my nationality is Jamaican, Carribean(this is the correct spelling thank you) denotes the region on the map describing the countries situated by the Carribbean Sea, but because of the distinct, rich and blessed pigment of melanin in my skin, I am UNEQUIVOCALLY PROUD to be Black...always capitalize the first B in Black if you are addressing my people, thank you very much.
Once and for all let me try to school some of y'all ignorant folks. When you suscribe to a ideology or "game" where the rules, playing field and players, tools etc... are dominated by one sector of the population, anything differing from that status quo will be recognized and described based on their unique characteristic by those people....hence the distinction of gender or color or religion. Oh by the way Jewish is not a race because there are people from around the globe of different skin tones who ascribe to the Jewish FAITH.
ZetaAce dont worry sista because there are a million of those "l-dawg's" out there who when feeled threatened by the resilience and tenacity of anyone normally viewed as according to their terminology the "underclass". So they start creating smokescreen arguments to try and justify there widely accepted and indoctrinated racist practices that they never feel the need to justify.
Charles and L-dawg, if you wish to debate this with me at length, go right ahead. I love educating and illuminating the not so knowledgeable and please save your myths, cliches and cries of reverse racism diatribe for someone else and bring the the knowledge of the WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
Thank you and enjoy YOUR independence day because Black slaves not were not granted their independence in 1776. Know your history people...or you will be doomed to repeat it.
[This message has been edited by nicci19 (edited July 01, 2000).]