I Can Solve The Race Issue With One Simple Law...

[SteyrAUG]

I've also learned folks are not what I define them as, they are what they define themselves as

You are correct on a personal level, I'm talking more about the official government endorsed classifications. You can believe anything you want about yourself, but if the government considers you "Asian" you aren't as valuable for reasons of diversity than other categories.

If college admissions were based solely upon SAT scores most universities would look like Hong Kong.

[currahee]

My son refers to people as "not peach"

This is after a dedicated attempt to have him not learn any racial references... he got his own.

He is my own little experiment in "post racial America."

[VIP3R 237]

Country of Origin. Problem solved.

Switzerland is where my family is from, so I'd rather not take sides in this discussion

[Mjolnir]

Yup, TR said it best:

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

But Teddy Roosevelt was a[n interminable] bigot...

If only we could actually believe and internalize all the beautiful sayings and poems we create. The fact that we can create them gives me hope.


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"One cannot awaken a man who pretends to be asleep."

[Mjolnir]

It's simpler than even darker & lighter- We are all a child of God. We are all human.

I've also learned folks are not what I define them as, they are what they define themselves as

You've got it.


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"One cannot awaken a man who pretends to be asleep."

[DrMark]

This might be the only viable solution.

Turn all the animosity that never seems to leave us to something not of this earth.

...or to the Dutch.

[Mjolnir]

Funny that it is true, they can call themselves a n$&*a but if you come around and call them like that then you a racist. Had that argument with one of them until I told him to man up and stop being a p$&@y. Bunch of fakes.

You can call your family all manner of names but I'm not stupid enough to call your family the same horrid names.

Think a bit...


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"One cannot awaken a man who pretends to be asleep."

[Caeser25]

Country of Origin. Problem solved.

This. The race pimps would be all over the news about how we're suppressing culture Which is retarded, you know, because, while I'm Caucasian on a piece of paper to the government means all of a sudden my culture and nationality are thrown out the window.