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To: Cogito who wrote (51096)	3/1/2008 8:41:05 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 543765

In this country, he would most likely be seen as black by just about everyone I think we're talking about two different things. Of course he would be seen as black. But how we are seen is different from how we identify ourselves and how we choose to present ourselves. For example, people become Jewish by having a Jewish mother. But they choose with whom they culturally associate and they choose whether to practice the religion and the variation of that religion. An excellent athlete chooses whether to identify with jocks. A beautiful woman chooses whether to be a beautiful woman or a woman who happens to be beautiful. Look at the fuss in the deaf community about choosing between the community and the broader world. Black people will accept mixed-race people as black, but white people will not accept them as white. This is not a binary choice. Or course they can't choose to be white. But they can choose to be multi-racial. They can also choose to be brown. And those who have an African parent can choose to be part African rather than part "black."

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