Members hi.flyer Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 This is pretty long but if you have the time, read it. I found it very interesting. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/end-of-whiteness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members solderjunkie Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 It is interesting... The blending of races was once shunned, but biracial couples are commonplace now. The generations who would have chastised them are dead or dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 15, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 15, 2009 The article is dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 They don't have editors at The Atlantic? That should have been maybe half the size it was. Interesting, but needed trimming. Keep it snappy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hi.flyer Posted January 15, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 The article is dumb. In that case, good job posting in kind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 They don't have editors at The Atlantic? That should have been maybe half the size it was. Interesting, but needed trimming. Keep it snappy! Ever since they changed the name it's been pretty shoddy. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 I guess I'm kind of missing the central point to the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 I guess I'm kind of missing the central point to the article. Have a kid with that Asian chick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 15, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 15, 2009 In that case, good job posting in kind! You'll note that I suggested the article was dumb, not your post. Nice ad hominem on your part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 I guess I'm kind of missing the central point to the article. The majority of America will be light brown soon. Not sure exactly what they consider "soon" but not in our lives, I suspect. Nor the lives of our great great grand children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 The majority of America will be light brown soon. Not sure exactly what they consider "soon" but not in our lives, I suspect. Nor the lives of our great great grand children. More power to 'em. Maybe when all Americans are one color, they'll realize we're also all one race! Say it loud! I'm Ecru and I'm proud!!!!:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 15, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 15, 2009 Have a kid with that Asian chick.But that would be the end of Asia-America, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 It Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Of course, that's the big title of the print magazine too. It's meant to imply something else...to stir up a little controversy when the article itself isn't controversial really at all. Hey, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to sell some magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Can someone please summarize? The first 3 paragraphs didn't warrant me wanting to read more. I've got work to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bryan316 Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 I understand this article quite well. And the quote above the article is something I've thought about before. I'm not really attracted to many women of other ethnic descent than mine. I'm a Slavic bred gypsy from eastern Europe. But I see plenty of inter-racial couples here around Detroit, with the arabic population and black flight out of Detroit. It's an interesting subject. But like that line said, "...will a post-white America be less racially divided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Of course, that's the big title of the print magazine too. It's meant to imply something else...to stir up a little controversy when the article itself isn't controversial really at all. How unscrupulous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J. Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 My current girlfriend is black, so if we have kids I guess I'll be helping the process along. She's originally from Kenya, and when she came to the States she was surprised at how racially divided we are here. Kenya has HUGE populations of Indians, Chinese, Japanese, as well as European whites. Race isn't nearly as big of a deal over there as it is here. Also, if you're a mixed kid (namely one white parent and one black parent), you aren't considered black. Here in the States, we have the "One Drop" rule. For most intents and purposes, mixed kids with black/white parents are considered to be black people. In Kenya, mixed people are NOT black. They are mixed, and that's its own separate legitimate classification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 How unscrupulous! I know! I feel so...manipulated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T. Alan Smith Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 What will the Negro College Fund do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nicolinadepapa Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 The majority of America will be light brown soon. .. Again?! cause just 500 years ago Las Americas (from Alaska to Argentina) it was all "light brown". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Again?! cause just 500 years ago Las Americas (from Alaska to Argentina) it was all "light brown". They didn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Can someone please summarize? The first 3 paragraphs didn't warrant me wanting to read more. I've got work to do. I didn't read a single word of it, so allow me to summarize for you. "If people keep having bi racial babies eventually there will only be one giant race... mixed." It also means the end of natural redheads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thunderbroom Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Here in the States, we have the "One Drop" rule. Officially (not sure it really ever was so), we don't anymore. The 2000 Census allowed participants to pick multiple races for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JeffBass Posted January 15, 2009 Members Share Posted January 15, 2009 Most racial discussions/articles boor me to no end. Focusing on race is a tool of divisiveness, IMO, and I'm quite frankly sick of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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