Bobert commented,

White is made from combining all of the basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet... You mix them colors allo together and you get white...

Black, howver, is an absence of color..

Irrelevant. NOBODY here is really white, in the sense of what you said, and NOBODY here is really black in that sense. Take me, for instance: I'm a sort of a mottled pinkish color. I've never seen Zeez, but I'd bet she's some shade approximating the color brown. And so what?

My biological forebears were all from Germany, but I don't think of myself as "German-American". I'm not culturally particularly German. I'm an American (United-Statesian?), who shares a lineal background going back to Germany at a certain period, but even that doesn't say much, because Germany contains (and did then) a lot of mixed streams of peoples going back to ancient, ancient times.

If "African-American" means that one's United States biological ancestors came at some point from Africa, then all of us in the US are "African-American", just because we're homo sapiens.

But of course none of that really relates too much to Azizi's thought, problem, whatever you want to call it. I think she's said pretty much that what she's talking about is more rooted in the culture she has a great historical stake in than race as such. If I'm wrong, I stand to be corrected.

Dave Oesterreich