JULIE (08/25/2008 - 6:12am), exactly that kind of manipulative behavior that you displayed is a good example of what I was talking about. Don’t try to critically think and understand what someone is saying just try to lie, manipulate, fallaciously attack with spite and snide behavior and implications and racial discriminating insults and TRY and divide to get what you want. I can definitely see you voting for manipulative and racially discriminating Obama.

The word “black” is in quotation marks when referring to skin color because first of all a statement of referring to someone by summing up their humanity by skin color is wrong, when describing someone’s features it’s fine sure but to sum people up by skin color is fallacious. It is also fallacious and a misnomer to describe people’s skin color as black or white as there really are no large demographics of white skin colored people or black skin colored people in America yet you imply you want to call all darker skin colored people “black”? Look at an accurate color chart and then go around town and look for “black” people. Brown, sure. Yellow tinged, maybe. Not many “black”. Yet you want to describe all the darker skin colors of people’s skin color as “black.” “Black” more commonly refers to a subculture and mind set of behavior in America not a universal skin color. Maybe you can remember about a year ago we had some people of darker skin color going on to national television and saying Obama wasn’t “black” or wasn’t “black enough” for them to vote for him.

Not to mention that in the realm of defining a person and their humanity and people who, this may surprise you, are real people, and which, this may surprise you too, voters are real people, their behavior and character is what should be of paramount importance - not skin color statistics. So when I quoted CNN, I used quotation marks. They weren’t my words and I don’t call people “black” or “white” when seriously describing a persons skin color and definitely not when describing a person’s or group of people’s character and behavior - they aren’t accurate words. And when you thought the word “black” above wasn’t in a quotations, it was in the quotation of the entire statement that was quoted which is describing the behavior that you displayed by a person who wouldn’t quote it.

People who want to call themselves “black” or “white” when they are actually closer to brown and tan can call themselves that if they choose. From my visual experience, most people who happen to be of lighter skin color do not have skin the color of white and most people who happen to be of darker skin color do not have skin the color of black. And note, yes us reason pursuing people have to take the burden of communication and justice and be extra thorough because your behavior refuses to do so, to address your manipulations before you have a chance to bring em out again, black is not in quotations marks in the previous sentence because I am not quoting anyone and I am not using the color as sole word to refer to and sum up a real person or to refer to and sum up a group of people, I am not referring to people as skin color I am actually referring to the color black which needs no quotes.

You can also get an accurate color chart and go around town and look for white colored people. You won’t find many. Also, if I am giving a description of someone’s skin color I do it in a more accurate way than just describing all darker skin colored people “black” and all lighter skin colored people “white”. That is reality. They all aren’t black or white - but seems like that doesn’t divide people enough for you. Open your eyes and stop racially discriminating, treat people with respect no matter what skin color they are and start pursuing reason.