Re: Reid says Obama and McCain have cut illegal alien amnesty deal, get ready to fight


"Deadrat" <a@xxxxx> wrote in message
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The term exists, obviously, because people use the term. It
also has numerous definitions. This is hardly controversial.

*You* first denied the existence of race.

I still do. I don't deny the ability of people to define
arbitrary classifications of people that they CALL "race".

Are you seriously suggesting that race classifications are
"arbitrary"

Yes.

What "race" is Obama? He is usually labeled "black", but has at
least as much European ancestry as African.

They DO have classifications for mixed races you know BOBBY.
You're busy arguing against things like DNA...

This country uses self-description for most racial
classifications, and self-description is indeed "arbitrary". The
only legal definitions used for race in our history involved the
"one drop rule", where someone was black if there was any
identified African ancestor any time in their ancestry. By the
one drop rule, it has been estimated that something like 30% of
self-described "white" Americans who had an ancestor in this
country before the civil war are legally "black". And of course,
ultimately ALL of us have African ancestry by the prevalent
scientific analysis on human origins.

Bobby - there is a HUGE difference between discussions of race
at your
KLAN meetings and the Aryan Nations, and what is discussed by
geneticists.

Geneticists don't much discuss race, which is mostly a social
construct. The reason is that the genetic diversity within nominal
races is as great as the diversity between races.

They DO and so do ANTHROPOLOGISTS.

No they don't, and neither do anthropologists. Race is mostly a
social construction. What don't you understand about the statement
that genetic diversity within nominal races is as great as the
diversity between races?

<YAWN> Diversionary from evolutionists.

OK, you didn't understand it.

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Race

I hope you don't mind if I don't bother to read a psychology entry in a
wiki for my information on biology.

I am 2,000% sure that YOU won't read ANY source that disputes YOUR RIGID
BELIEFS RATBOI!



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