maybe, just maybe, as a function of the depressing and shameful history of racism explicit and institutionalized in the states, african-americans have been aggregated differently than have euro-americans, such that there is a different weight to the term, and a more tangible sense that it refers to a discrete culture (i don't like that word because it implies something more self-enclosed and self-enclosing than seems appropriate in most cases, this included)---so that would mean, as a function of the history of racism explicit and institutionalized in the states, african-american and "white" are *not* parallel terms, that they refer to different senses of identification--and so the analogy that ustwo seems to like repeating--"if the situation were reversed..." is as ridiculous as is the logic of this entire thread--and it encapsulates that logic, such as it is.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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