Youneverknow: "half-black"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Isn't that pretty common to say?

If those people who commonly say that a white individual is
"half-black," "half-African-American," or whatever accept such a
person as wholly white to the same extent that those people who
commonly say that a black individual is "half-white" accept such a
person as wholly black, then, clearly, a difference that makes no
difference is no difference and my previous remarks on this point are
nothing but reverse-racist nonsense and I apologize.

The claim that the girl had had sex with both half-black twins at the
same time struck me as being a cutting remark made by an angry
boyfriend - after all, he had just denied that he had ever dallied
with the darker sister and *wouldn't* do so, unless she met a certain
criterion, or should that be "criteria"? - and not a statement of
fact.

And, IMO, the girlfriend was *denying* ever having had sex with a
black guy and not *affirming* it. That is, if you define _black guy_
as "Wesley Snipes" or "Tyrese," then admitting to having had sex with
a set of  Barack Obama-looking, "*half*-black" twins is clearly *not*
equivalent to admitting to having had sex with a single _black guy_.

Close, but no cigar.

Gnome sane?
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