Andy Driscoll wrote:

> Jason is absolutely right. Black is the absence of color - 
> white is presence of all combined colors.
> 
> Nevertheless, the analogy is valid as I see it.

Out of frustration:  "White" people are not white,
they're shades of beige. "Black" people are not black 
they're shades of brown (or beige). It's kind of ironic 
to think of "Black" people being the absence of color 
when we refer to them as people of color.

Race exists in both a social and legal sense, and possibly 
in a genetic sense (depending on your definition). 
See article in Scientific American:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00055DC8-3BAA-1FA8-BBAA83414B7F0000


Michael Atherton
Prospect Park

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