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    Society should STOP Confusing "Race" with 'Ethnicity'

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    • multiracialbookclub
      . MY . Seeing that I do NOT approve of referring to (and / or categorizing) a Mixed-Race person (who just happens to have some amount of Black-ancestry in
      Message 1 of 1 , Aug 26, 2012
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        MY 
         
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        Seeing that I do NOT approve of referring to (and / or
        categorizing) a Mixed-Race person (who just 
        happens
        to have some amount of Black-ancestry 
        in their lineage)
        by the RACIAL term of 'Black' 
        (due to the fact that it is
        an obvious adherence to 
        the racist-`One-Drop Rule')
        -- I also feel a need to 
        point out that I also have issues
        with the general social use and application of certain
        Ethnic terms such as that of 'African-American' (AA).
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        The problem that I have with the general social use 
        of the currently popular term of `African-American'
         (AA),
        is  related to the following facts of the matter:

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        FACT #1) Most 
        people do NOT seem to realize that the
        term of AA was 
        ONLY meant to be applied to a very
        specific ETHNIC 
        grouping of people (which then
        means that the term of AA 
        is NOT a `synonym'
        for the term of `Black American' nor
        was it ever meant to be used as such.)**

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        -- and --
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        FACT #2) The term of AA (even when used `properly')
        is still actually a `misnomer' for and a false descriptor
        of 
        the ETHNIC group to whom it was created to be applied.^^
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        ** According to most historians --- the `proper' application of 
        the ETHNIC term of `African-American' (AA) was both 
        created for, and to be limited in application SOLELY
        to,
         the small number of those people who are: 

        .
        ... "The `Descendants-Of-The-Survivors'of
        the 
        chattel-slavery System that had once
        existed on the 
        continental United States
        during the 
        antebellum-era of it's history".
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        [[[[[
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        The RACIAL term of `Black American' (BA) 
        – on the other hand -- applies to ALL of the 
        citizens / permanent residents of the continental 
        United States (U.S.) – who are BOTH "racially" 
        categorized as being `Black' AND are also 
        NOT members of the AA ETHNIC group.

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        [NOTE: While there are more than 18 Million
        BAs 
        located on the continental United States
        (U.S.) 
        alone (with, largely due to a steady flow
        of 
        immigration since 1968, the numbers both 
        growing and expected to continue to grow 
        larger annually) – there are only 13 Million 
        AAs even found in existence on the entire 
        planet (including those who are expatriates).]  
        .
        Which means that -- since shortly after 1968 --
        there have been more BAs in the U.S. than AAs.

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        In addition to the fact that the ETHNIC misnomer of the
        term of 'African-American' (AA) is often (erroneously) 
        applied to 'anyone who has any Black lineage and lives in
        the United States' -- although nearly `all' of the members 

        of the AA ETHNIC group have been placed in the "racial"
        `category' of "black" (and `some' of 
        the AAs actually are
        of a full racially-Black) --- 
        it is also a well-
        known fact that
        a large number of the AAs are 
        actually of a continually
        Mixed-Race ancestral 
        lineage that the term of AA quite
        simply fails to properly describe or even acknowledge.^

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        Thus, the ETHNIC term of AA is NOT synonymous
        with the RACIAL 
        term of BA; the two (2) terms are
        NOT referring 
        to the same groupings of people; and 
        the two (2) terms should NOT be used interchangeably. 
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        ... is NOT the same thing as "Race"
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        (^Per the research of such notable geneticists as 
        Dr. Luigi Cavelli-Sforza [who was, at the time, 
        the esteemed Executive Director of 'The Human 
        Genome Project' and is still seen as the world's 
        foremost authority in the field of human genetics]:
        .
         
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        ----- ^^More than seventy-percent (+70%) of the
        people who are born to parents who are BOTH
        members of the ETHNIC group
        that 
        is currently
        referred to by the term of AA (a term 
        which,
        once one studies the lineage of this group, 
        really does seem to be a misnomer) -----
        have a continuously racially-admixed lineage 
        containing an ancestry of +20-30% European;
        +25% 
        Amerindian; and remaining Black / 
        West African
        AND 
        a whopping 5% of such
        members
        of the AA ETHNIC 
        group have NO
        traceable amounts of Black / West 
        African
        ancestry
        found in their lineage whatsoever.] 
         
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        RELATED LINKS: 

        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/3331 
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1034 
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1032 

        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/4160 
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/4157 
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        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/4162 
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/4186 
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        SOURCE:
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        https://www.facebook.com/allpeople.gifts/posts/300777016632181 
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