Shemp wrote: > ...why should he apologise? > Reid had to apologize because Obama was offended by the remarks. Apparently during the 2008 campaign, Bill Clinton said that people like Obama would have been 'serving him coffee'. He will probably be apologizing soon too, for that remark!
It's not politically correct to mention a person's race anymore - it's no longer accepted. Trent Lott found this out the hard way. It's not really a good thing to group people together like that, into races calling some people 'Texans' - pointing to a person's birth circumstances tells us nothing about their character. Calling someone 'Negro' does nothing to explain the differences in people. > And there are other distinguishing characteristics > amongst groups... > That's assuming that there is such a thing as 'race'. Not all 'groups' are 'racial' groups - and some social scientists and anthropologists don't support the 'racial profiling' theories at all. None of the characteristics you mention are part of the definition of a 'race'. Social scientists don't usually see any connection to a persons race and their ability to make money - that's an example of racial profiling used to justify persecution of Jews, who are not a separate race of people in the first place.
