Which leads to another question. Here in Montana indians get free higher education, so long as they can prove the 1/4 indian. Doesn't that mean that they are 3/4 non indian? Also, tribes have reduced membership requirements to 1/8 indian, because of assimulation. Ridiculous. How long do you trace roots? Eventually, we all come from the same place.
I would define a black man as someone of African descent. I know that strictly speaking on pigmentation, there are non-Africans that are just as dark. But in the context of society, I would say that when a "black man" is referrenced, it is to a person of (or assumed of) African descent.
By the way, I'm 1/1millionth "Garden of Eden." Is there a scholarship for that?
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A black man is someone who has a deep, dark soul. Prozac usually cures that, though.
Ask a thousand people to define a "black man" and you'll get quite a few varying answers. In the end, however, it really doesn't mean a whole lot. We're all people, so categorizations based on color or whatever are just thingswe use to organize and understand the world around us.
In professional peer-reviewed venues today, the terms *****id, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid are used in two different ways. First, they are used in the strict original sense of defined skull types. This usage is found today only in forensics. Second, they are used less precisely as labels for the classification of human populations, classifications that are usually called "races" but are sometimes euphemized as clusters, clines, ethnicities, and the like.
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In addition, about one-third of so-called "White" Americans have detectable African DNA markers that would forensically categorize them as "*****id."[13] And about five percent of so-called "Black" Americans have no detectable "*****id" traits at all, neither craniofacial nor in their DNA.[14] In short, given three Americans, one who self-identifies and is socially accepted as U.S. White, another one who self-identifies and is socially accepted as U.S. Black, and one who self-identifies and is socially accepted as U.S. Hispanic, and given that they have precisely the same Afro-European mix of ancestries (one "mulatto" grandparent), there is quite literally no objective test that will identify their U.S. endogamous group membership without an interview.[15] In practice, the application of such forensic criteria ultimately comes down to whether the skull "looks *****id," "Caucasoid," or "Mongoloid" in the eye of each U.S. forensic practitioner.
So, race is as much a state of mind as anything else.
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The terms "Caucasoid," "*****id," "Mongoloid," and similar ones with the "oid" suffix are also used in several fields as euphemisms for racialist terms that came to be seen as offensive about fifty years ago. Scientific support for the Caucasoid, *****id, Mongoloid terminology has fallen steadily over the past century.
Offensive terms ... I believe that in "offense," the receiver of the term is the one who gets to decide if it's offensive, and not the giver. Am I correct on that?
Racism is when you look only the color of peoples skin and make judgements based soley on that. Black people are the Kings of doing this.
If your skin is black, you're a brutha, you can use the..Edited By Red Hawk....word, regardless of whether you truly are "black" aka "African American"
Colin Powel isn't an African American per sya, he's Jamaican American, the Rock is Somoan I believe, Tiger is Tai American, Charlize truly IS African American, Mariah is 1/2 black/white and of coure Halle is half white/black
But again, funny how everyone talks about racism, and being racist when in fact is has NOTHING to do with race, really its all about SKIN COLOR, isn't it ?
I want someone to define "black man"
