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No, no doctor needed.
Posh people are better able to 'get away' with being racist
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It came from the term looking at a deep hole which was dark in color, thus blackhole.
Well actually it's origins are more likely to do with it being a black body object.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
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But the name came from a hole in the ground that you could not judge distance, as black holes in space vary with color, which official was name blackbody events.
Ok, didn't understand a thing you've said. A black body in physics has a very specific meaning, nothing to do with distances.
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black people aren't even black (unless you are Wesley Snipes).
John Wheeler used the name blackhole refering to a hole in the ground that has no limt to the naked eye, and once you fell you could not get out..
Apart from the massive classism issue in this thread I think we need to define what racism actually is, then decide whether all forms of racism are "bad".
For example using it in derogatory way is bad, having friends who are black/brown/tanned/whatever and having a joke with them is very different (if it is a two way joke not a put down, see part one of this paragraph). The whole "sooty" article is just like that. If you have friends who joke about their heritage and skin colour and have running jokes with their friends (of all colours) what's the difference between calling some one "lanky" affectionately? There is a time and place for everything.
And yes, all people are racist, same as all people are sexist, doesn't mean everyone is going to put down someone of another skin colour or sex.
For example using it in derogatory way is bad, having friends who are black/brown/tanned/whatever and having a joke with them is very different (if it is a two way joke not a put down, see part one of this paragraph). The whole "sooty" article is just like that. If you have friends who joke about their heritage and skin colour and have running jokes with their friends (of all colours) what's the difference between calling some one "lanky" affectionately? There is a time and place for everything.
And yes, all people are racist, same as all people are sexist, doesn't mean everyone is going to put down someone of another skin colour or sex.
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Why no longer a bossman?
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U mad bro?
Ah, then again with your user name I suppose it's apt.
Had any foster children taken away from you recently?
Sorry for the OTness - Times change, people decide to move on, I'm not the only one.
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That's a hint for politics behind the scenes if ever I heard one.