N-word - def. not covered

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> grouped with "Blacks" in North America.

"Black in Latin America," by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., suggests that
mulattoes are grouped with blacks *everywhere*. By whites. If a person
is non-white, then the degree of his non-whiteness is of no particular
interest to whites *anywhere*.

Has anyone, anywhere, of whatever racial background, hailed the first
mulatto President of the United States? A difference that makes no
difference is no difference.

Money and fame may come together to bleach a random individual into a
kind of pseudo-white status, even here in The World. But that's pretty
much as far as it goes.

BTW, "it's an ill wind that blows no good," to coin a phrase. As
someone else pointed out in the very forum, several years ago, if it
was possible for a person of known, admitted, or claimed sub-Saharan
African ancestry to have any real social status other than "black,"
the socio-political structure of this country would be unknowably
different and, most likely, disastrous for the non-white of African
ancestry. They'd be totally without any genuine political power.
"Divide et impera," to coin a phrase.

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-Wilson
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