Wow. An interesting Snopes link...

[conuly]

Well, not really interesting, but I thought some people might be interested in it regardless. It's about fraternal twins who are, to the naked eye, two completely different races (despite having the same parents).

Of course, this also explains (I assume) why in non-mixed black families, you have children of all different colors - African-American people (excepting recent immigrants from Africa, who often don't seem to fall under the same heading, for reasons I don't understand if race is supposed to be a vaguely scientific instead of social concept) are all, to an extent, mixed (due of course to the tragic nature of slavery, do I have to say this?).

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[marveen.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

And I'd say the sentence "African-American people (excepting recent immigrants from Africa, who often don't seem to fall under the same heading, for reasons I don't understand if race is supposed to be a vaguely scientific instead of social concept) are all, to an extent, mixed (due of course to the tragic nature of slavery, do I have to say this?)" is a little overgeneralized. After all, by "recent immigrants" do you mean everyone who's come over since 1865? There's been time for lots of "mixing" to have happened post-slavery era, you know. (Not that I'm saying "mixing" didn't happen pre-1865 either.)

I don't really subscribe to "race" even as a pseudoscientific construct. Humans come in different shapes and shades. Deal with it.

Now, culture is a whole 'nother hue of equine.

[conuly]

Yes, it is an oversimplification. My apologies. I should've thought.