03-02-2005, 06:13 AM | #21 |
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Spectrally challenged?
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03-02-2005, 07:24 AM | #22 |
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I might have spotted niche here. I could get support groups and protest campaigns going.
'What do we want?' 'All labelling and signage in yellow on a black background' 'When do we want it?' 'Now!' And maybe I could write alternative songs and prose for fellow sufferers: "Red and yellow and green and red, A lighter sort of red, a brownish-mauve, and a faint red, I can sing a rainbow...."
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03-02-2005, 09:29 AM | #23 | ||
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Spectrally challenged! lol! I still think you can say colour blind though Draken.
Which reminds me... suggested reading for this thread: "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. EDIT: Oops, I really thought that was a different book. I can see how that would be annoying Arty. Even though I don't think it would bother me, I can't really talk. There's a lot of Swedes who aren't white, and skin colour aside, not all Swedes are blond-haired and blue-eyed either. I'm the foreigner, and it's only obvious when I mangle something in Swedish. (Recalls the ströbröd incident... )
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Here's another angle - I just heard Al Sharpton speak t'other day at an event sponsored by someone whose name I didn't recognize and can't recall, but the only people I saw in the audience were black. There was one white speaker on the podium, and about 6 black speakers. It seems to me that sometimes, the more outspoken black leaders want it both ways - they don't want stereotypes and prejudice, yet they themselves talk as if all blacks think the same way, or at least SHOULD think the same way, on many issues. Do you guys know what I mean? Do you get that impression, too?
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LOL, Draken!
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On an unrelated note, do you think the term 'aryan' is offensive or condescending anymore? I use it among friends, who of course don't care, but would 'blonde-haired blue-eyed' be more politically correct?
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04-06-2005, 03:07 PM | #26 |
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Nice thread Ri, can't believe i did'ne sporrit before now
I went to a school in the main city of the county i lived in, and in my class of 25, there were 4 muslims, 2 indians, 1 afro-european, 3 caribeans (2 from jamaica, one from trinidad) and 15 whites, of the whites 2 were of irish origin, me included, 1 eastern european, the other 12 mostly english origin, |