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[quote=Anonymous]This thread raises a very important question albeit unintentionally - how long are we going to continue to enable and embrace the social construct of race which was invented for the sole purpose of determining who should have access to privilege, power, status, and wealth, and who should not? Interracial relationships are not an anomaly anymore and more and more children of the up and coming generation are products of these relationships. So what are we going to do - are we going to force these biracial children to identify themselves as being one ethnicity or another? Are we going to take that decision of self-identification out of their hands and institute some sort of hue-scale to determine whether or not they're light enough to be considered white? Are we going to bring the "one drop rule" back into effect? Or can we begin the process of at long last ridding our society and culture of these harmful labels and the stereotypes that accompany them?[/quote]
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