The Term African American

[Sista]

Originally Posted by laylo

No, I said "other posters", not "every poster". And there was no implication in any of my posts that you were the only one doing anything..

Originally Posted by laylo

We are talking about the basic ways in which people understand racial categories and the fact that such things as racial categories were invented

Who is we?

Originally Posted by laylo

Again, I did not say your statements were inappropriate for this thread, I explained that your responses to me included incorrect interpretations of my statements.

Okay, gotcha, gotcha. My impression of you is that you did think that what I was discussing was out of bounds with the idea of social construction but you won't admit to that so let's just drop it and move on. I'm not going to change and from the looks of it neither are you.


Desperately attempting to redirect:

What do people in this discussion think about British settlers who by their own will, settled in South Africa? They were and still are racist against the black people who were already there, that being the black indigenous South Africans.

Those British people for the purposes of political reasons, as well as for many other underlining reasons, they are fighting for the right to become as South African as the real South Africans. They are fighting to be referred to as South Africans. This very same thing happened to the Aboriginals of Australia.

How does the above relate to this idea of "social constructs, social construction?"