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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (51120)	3/1/2008 10:11:13 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 544047

Black is a skin color. It has meaning for someone who has it in terms of biology, and genetics. It confers some advantages and has some limitations (biologically) when compared to white skin. That's pretty much all I was saying. YOU said it had no meaning. Not me. I wasn't talking about races- just about genotypes and phenotypes, and the importance thereof. Race can be a shorthand way of alerting people to dangers within their phenotype group- and PC shouldn't force us not to use that, if it works. Being fat also has advantages and disadvantages. It can also be genetic. It also has meaning for the people have the genetic predisposition to be fat. Same type of thing. It's not as if "fat" is "bad". The storage of fat is a survival mechanism. It's a good thing. But we live in times of plenty, so if you have the genes to pack on the pounds, you have to control them. It's JUST about biology. It's not bad or good. You know your genotype, you know more about your risks. You work with your phenotype- since you're stuck with it. I'd love to be a nice light coffee color myself (sort of a cafe au lait)- if I could choose any skin color, that would be the one I'd choose. But I can't. I'm stuck with what I have, and I work with it.