Azizi:

I love ya, darlin', but I don't think those usages -- which were born in the English language before slavery of Africans by Anglo was even imagined, back in Chaucer's time and before -- should have any racist harmonics to them just because they name a color. It would require that you become so enmeshed in the issues surrounding race that you think of yorself as a color, which you are much more than.   I do nt say this to lessen any of the importance that attaches to issues of race, but to say taht those issues should not be made into absolute importances, which they are not. Our common traits are much more important, and so are our spiritual traits, and our ability to see and think and dream.

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