OT African Americans Was RE: Librarians,

I had fun a few years ago. We were living up in Michigan and were having a
dinner party. One couple were on the less enlightened side. I told them one of
the other couples coming would be African American so they could be "warned".
They said "Oh no problem at all".

Day of the party they looked around quite a bit and as we sat down for dinner
the husband took me aside and asked about the African Americans. I pointed to
a an obviously Caucasian couple at the table and said "Tom and Nancy are
African Americans, emigrated here from South Africa years ago.

To their credit they laughed and I think they even got the point.

Bob

PS The above does not mean to be derogatory to any race/color/country of
origin. It is meant as an amusing anecdote to somewhat illustrate human nature
and the strangeness of man.

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and
> black Caribbean subjects (often Jamaican) and culturally they are

> Bob Makowsky wrote:

> I had fun a few years ago. We were living up in Michigan and were

> mom hit on the idea of measuring our heights and, sure enough, the

We had two friend who were both named Mike Green, shared an apartment, went to
the same church, both played guitar...they eventually told people to call them
Light Green and Dark Green.

I could probably wrench this back onto topic with an essay on discrimination
within the IF, PAU, and border territory between the two, but let's just say
that ammo is a popular import and let it go.

Unless we want to do a shared worldbuilding exercise, of course. "Cibola, an
terran world, was discovered by the Alarishi Empire and survey data auctioned
off to the highest bidder. ESU was outbid by a coalition of PAU, IF, and a few
smaller governments or
quasi-governments (megacorps, dissident groups such as the Rajputana
Sikhs, etc). A more detailed recent survey has discovered archaeological
evidence of Kra'Vak inhabitants..."

Okay, someone run with it.