On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Dan Minette wrote: > FWIW, she is not an African-American. She is an African who intends to go > back home to live in Zambia.
So I gathered. I was just trying to point out that in America "blackness" (i.e. racial/cultural authenticity and solidarity) has long been about much more than the bare facts of pigmentation and ancestry. What happened to Nelli is depressing and bitterly ironic, but not very surprising. (Contrariwise, one would hardly expect an African-American who went to an African nation to be considered a "real African" by the citizens there -- his language, expectations, mannerisms, etc. would be all wrong. No more than I, being white and having watched too many BBC sitcoms would expect to be treated as a "real Englishman" were I to visit London.) Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter & Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
