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Thread #150917   Message #3521465
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
01-Jun-13 - 03:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: PC Spanish Class- No 'black'!
Subject: RE: BS: PC Spanish Class- No 'black'!
Q - Osama bin Laden was Black?

Futwick did not mention black. The phrase was "I've never heard of non-white peoples forming groups like..."

From Wikipedia -
The police services of the UK began to classify arrests in racial groups in 1975, but later replaced the race code with an Identity Code (IC) system.[13]

IC1 White person
IC2 Mediterranean person
IC3 African/Caribbean person
IC4 Indian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Maldivian, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, or any other (South) Asian person
IC5 Chinese, Japanese, Korean or South-East Asian person
IC6 Arabic, Egyptian or Maghreb person
IC0 Origin unknown

Osama bin Laden was, by ethnic definition, IC6 and not white so my list stands.

Cheers

DtG