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I've read that sentence countless times and I disagree with its content. Moreover, it shows how deeply racism is rooted in our media and in us.
What we owe it to is the undue emphasis on political correctness.
Once there was the derogative slang word of "Niggers", which rightfully was replaced by "Blacks" or "Colored People".
These terms had to make way for the monstruos construct of "Afro-Americans" or "Indio-Americans".
Two of the victims in the campaign were the ethnologically correct terms:
mulatto (the offspring of European and African) and mestizo (the offspring of European and Indian).
Now, a person born of a white and a black parent is still stamped as "colored" or "Afro-American". Why so?
If the decendency of Obama is 50% white and 50% black, I must be allowed
to call him "white" with precisely the same justification as have those who insist on calling him "black".
We are no longer allowed to call him what he really is: A mulatto - thanks to the hypocrisy of political correctness.
Even if the black influence is further diluted in the offspring of a mulatto
with white parents, they are still considered "Afro-Americans".
Apparently, a minor amount of Afro-American DNA is enough for the broad
public to see a person as "black" rather than "white".
The beauty of Halle Berry who has, say 25% "African blood" in her veins making, even her an "Afro-American" in the eyes of the media.
A covert form of racism we all seem to be trapped by.
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