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31 October 2015

9:00 AM

31 October 2015

9:00 AM

Self-indulgent race discrimination commissioner

African American is not an accurate descriptor of Americans of Negro racial origin. North Africans, for example, are not grouped into a ‘pan-African race’ along with Sub-Saharan Africans. Ethiopians, for example, are considered sometimes Caucasian and sometimes Negro. Difference between peoples, the sort of thing that race discrimination commissioners take offence at on behalf of others, is as or even sharper, once ethnicity is taken into account.

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