Keeping whites seperate from your coloureds?

[Dis]

my blood looks blue to me

[Jamski]

Yep, pure red, but it goes black after it dries.

Diss, you are the QUEEN OF ENGLAND! Phone now to CLAIM YOUR FREE COUNTRY! All thrones, palaces and batteries not included.

-Jam

[Provost Harrison]

What about things with stripes? And delicates?

[The Mad Monk]

All doomed to grayness.

[molly bloom]

Albert- have you heard of the British group Blue Mink?

Melting Pot
Take a pinch of white man
Wrap him up in black skin
Add a touch of blue blood
And a little bitty bit of red Indian boy
Oh like a Curly Latin kinkies
Oh Lordy, Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees*, yeah
You know you lump it all together
And you got a recipe for a get along scene
Oh what a beautiful dream
If it could only come true, you know, you know

What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got
And keep it stirring for
A hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score

Rabbis and the friars
Vishnus and the gurus
We got the Beatles or the Sun God
Well it really doesn't matter
What religion you choose
And be thankful little Mrs. Graceful
You know that livin' could be tasteful
We should all get together in a lovin machine
I think I'll call up the queen
It' s only fair that she knows, you know, you know

What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got
And keep it stirring for
A hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score

Coffee coloured people
Coffee coloured people
Coffee coloured people by the score


You should also read 'The Lathe of Heaven' by Ursula K. Le Guin'- its hero is a man who can change the world by thought. He solves the 'colour' or 'race' problem, but unfortunately this is balanced out by an alien invasion.

(Apologies to anyone of Chinese descent- I'm quoting the lyrics as written in 1969, not endorsing the terminology)

[DaShi]

Let's just hope the sensitivity police are lenient.

[Q Classic]

i don't think my decendents will ever be 70% white. 70% isn't a power of 2...

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and about the "miscegenation" ideas... well, although an asian-white relationship gets fewer eyebrows raised than white-black relationship, there are still those who find such mixed-race pairings wrong. often times, there seems to be a sort of ranking on how threatening the mixes are to those people; asians are apparently "white enough" if they're female, a little less so than males, which seems to go a long way towards 'acceptance'.

what's more is that while you often have a fairly balanced ratio of male latino-female white to female latina-white male relationships, you see a great imbalanced between other pairings: far more black male-white female than white male-black female, and although you'll find droves of white male-asian female pairings, the number of asian male-white female pairings i've seen i could count on one of my hands--and that's including mine. these all can play into the generic racial stereotypes, which can enforce the "rankings" so to speak.

even between colored peoples, there's a good deal of ranking--japanese like japanese, koreans koreans, and chinese chinese; hindu indians stay away from sikh and muslim indians. han chinese don't usually go for southern chinese.

no matter what you may want, you'll always have some purebloods. the trick is to not think about race at all; tall order for some, but it can be done. who cares of someone is pureblooded or not if the basic and fundamental idea of different races is irrelevant?

[SlowwHand]

Re: Keeping whites seperate from your coloureds?

Originally posted by Albert Speer
the US is 70% white, right? so if everybody suddenly got all mixed, in a few generations, every American would be 70% white, right? oh and another 12-15% being hispanic which, face it, is white with a tan. if the KKK and what not wants a White America, isn't inter-racial relations the way to achieve it? everyone would be 'white'. ironic...

so whats with that?

You are so weird.
I attribute it more to your being a Yankee than being Black.

[Gangerolf]

It's funny how chinese are labelled as yellow. They're not yellow at all, just slightly darker than white people. Then again whites aren't really white, they're more like pinkish-beige or something. And blacks are more like dark brown really

[SlowwHand]

I honestly thought this thread was about washing clothes.


"Don't hate the Black, don't hate the White.
If you get bit, just hate the bite.
Make sure your heart is beating right.
Are you ready?"

[Gangerolf]

You know what the old Vikings called Negroes? "Bluemen"

[Lefty Scaevola]

"Keeping whites seperate from your coloureds?"


SOP in the laundry room.

[Caligastia]

If one race made up of a mix of all current races is your ideal, then you are basically admitting that racial integration/diversity can never work.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
It's funny how chinese are labelled as yellow. They're not yellow at all, just slightly darker than white people. Then again whites aren't really white, they're more like pinkish-beige or something. And blacks are more like dark brown really

To me most chinese clearly have yellow skin. It may just look like a darker white to you, but when you think about it, that's kind of what yellow is. Some Mexicans seem to have a yellow tinge to them too.

You know what the old Vikings called Negroes? "Bluemen"

Some of the really dark ones do have a blue/purple tinge to them. I lived with some folks from Ghana for a while, and when I saw their skin in bright sunlight there was clearly some blue/purple there.

[Az]

Nah. Only people with hepatitis, or Gilbert's have yellow skin.