Thank you.

On 8/14/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dana wrote:
> > you're just flowing with insults aren't you. But you still have not
> > said what you think is wrong with acting like a black man.
> >
>
> It's stereotypical and possible racist.  Why?  Because "black man"
> refers to huge group of people, probably about 6% of our population.
> To say that someone is "acting like" is subjective and therefore
> stereotypical and therefore possibly racist.  That's what's wrong.
>
> You can say factually things like black men are more prone to
> Sickle-cell disease  than white men or There are more black male rap
> artists than Asians.
>
> Or even anecdotal things like:
>
> White men can't jump or Black men dance better than white men.
>
> But "acting like" is broad and implicitly derogatory even if that is
> not the intention.
>
>

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