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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: \"Implicitly racist language\"
Message-ID: <360@unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 22:52:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.360
Posted: Mon Jun  3 22:52:44 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 07:38:38 EDT
References: <2039@decwrl.UUCP> <mnetor.569>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <2039@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes:
>
>Lucius Chiaraviglio refers to 'implicitly racist language which always 
>associates black with evil and white with good.'
>
>Better to get rid of associating 'black' or 'white' with race!  How about
>'round eyes' and 'dog face' to use the old American Indian term for the
>black troopers.  That way black can still be used for evil as it was in
>ancient civilizations long before it came to mean anything to do with race
>in some people's minds.

Excellent point!  Black will always be a synonym for complete darkness;
Any preschooler knows that darkness is scary.

Furthermore, there are no real white people in this world
(except perhaps certain red-heads and they don't count if they have freckles),
and no black people, either, though some are very dark brown.

I, personally, am a very tasteful beige.

	Frank Silbermann