Message from discussion Political Correctness

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From: "Joan F \(MI\)" <jjf...@removethisameritech.net>
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Subject: Re: Political Correctness
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:11:59 -0400
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America has all these weird hangups and color and ethnicity are big ones. 
For myself, I go along with the scientists who say there is no biological 
basis for the concept of "race".  We are all human beans.

jingles wrote:
| I was watching a news report from the US yesterday and was surprised
| to hear Obama described as a man of 'colour'.  Surely we are all
|  people of one  colour or another...
|
| jingles