This, of course, is why Parliament Funkadelic was repeatedly mistaken for ABBA.
--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 10:05 PM
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Carrol Cox
> <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> Even the proposition that "black people are, as a
> eneral rule,
> > are darker complected than whites," would be
> misleading.
>
>
> Somewhat true. Many years ago, when I worked at a Virginia
> summer camp, we
> Italians and Poles (who worked on the waterfront)
> challenged the black
> employees (who worked in the kitchen) to your basic
> "who has more pigment?"
> contest. And of course, we won.
>
> But if we're speaking of "general rules,"
> your statement might still hold
> firm.
>
> Then again, maybe that's why "general rules"
> are rarely very useful.
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal
> þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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