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Do not try speaking for me, if you feel the shoe fits, by all means wear it, it does not fit me, I have never understood racist thinking, even as a child my logic board was working and racisim is illogical in the extreme.
I couldn't believe how much this man's early life was like mine. I lived my first 15 years in a tiny town in Kansas where the closest black people were about 15 miles away. I had trouble figuring out why the black people in that town had to sit in one small section of the movie theater and when I got in high school I found that one black kid could sit anywhere he wanted to sit in that place. It turned out that he was the star running back on the high school football team in that town. That town had one of the biggest, best organized gangs in the state and the town ranked sixth in the whole nation for juvenile delinquency according to population figures. Not one black kid in that gang. When our family moved farther west, by about 180 miles, there still were no blacks in town. However, there was one in a neighboring town who I had to play basketball against and even had to guard. I always called him every derogatory name I had ever heard, and it wasn't many. He fired names back at me and we got to be friends after a couple of games.
Of course, there were some black people in the western Kansas college I attended, but not so many, at that. Then I went to the Army and in basic training my best buddy was a black kid from Oregon. Tex, he liked to be called Tex for some reason, and I had more fun together than any clothed people should be allowed to have and people of both races who worried that we were about to fight when we used those racist names for each other never did figure out what was going on. That was 58 years ago and I can still see Joe's, that was what I called him because it was his name, face very plainly and all the white faces from that time, have faded from my memory. I will never understand how a racist like I am, today, got that close to Joe other than the fact that he didn't have a racist bone in his body. I think that is why I liked Joe so much.
Sure there are. In other animals we call that breeds and it is considered a way to place animals in sub-species.
Breed, is not a scientific term and has no meaningful definition especially as breeds only develop THROUGH SELECTIVE BREEDING, which if you are unaware, humans do not do. And it ABSOLUTELY does not equate to sub-species.
For the term subspecies to apply, organism must be morphologically distinct (which humans are not). Even on the biological level, "race" must be geographically distinct, which humans also are not. Race as a biological, scientific term does not apply to humans. As a more colloquial term, it can be a collective for general physical characteristics but frequently (and IMO inappropriately) includes cultural characteristics as well.
Lewotin proved that there is more diversity between individuals, than between groups thus ending the biological "race" taxonomic classification.
Someone ALWAYS pulls out the Race, Creed, Color, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Vegan, Carnivore, Political card for no particular reason other than they have it up their sleeve and think it is appropriate to use it whenever it is convenient for them.
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