The moors were not black
They were arabs.
shareWho are almost black
shareThe heart of the Moorish empire was in Northern Africa, and while people from that region tend to be darker than whites, they are still lighter than those from sub-Saharan Africa. Moors are more middle eastern than they are black as we like to think of it.
"Gold buys a mans silence for a time. A bolt to the heart buys it forever"
Who are almost black
I don't know where you get your facts from, but middle eastern/Arabs are white in ethnicity. do some research. share
So by that logic. I guess the 9/11 hijackers were white huh?
shareFor government record keeping (e.g. the Census), Middle Easterners are classified as white/Caucasian, but I think we are all in agreement that they are not white as it is typically thought of - being of Northern European descent.
Probably appropriate as outside of being slightly darker and largely embracing a different religion, they are remarkably like whites in other aspects. Much more so than blacks, Asians, or even Latinos (who also often self-identify as white)
"Gold buys a mans silence for a time. A bolt to the heart buys it forever"
it's always funny to watch young people talk as if they're educated about stuff like this.
shareFor the Census, Middle Easterners are whatever they self-identify as when they fill out the Census...the government does not classify them as 'white'.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
For the Census, Middle Easterners are whatever they self-identify as when they fill out the Census...the government does not classify them as 'white'.Speaking as someone who worked for the Census, that isn't exactly correct. It's true that anyone filling out a Census form can put in any answer they want. But that doesn't mean that "the government" doesn't have guidelines for these things, and for the record, the manual given to enumerators instructs them to explain to respondents that "White/Caucasian" includes people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, not just European descent. share
I'll take your word for it...and I'll also let you ponder why the US government would want to classify someone in the US, particularly those non-citizens, as "white" versus "Middle Eastern" or "North African".
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
I'll take your word for it...and I'll also let you ponder why the US government would want to classify someone in the US, particularly those non-citizens, as "white" versus "Middle Eastern" or "North African".Where did you get the idea that Middle Easterners are "non-citizens"? share
Boy, your reading comprehension is lacking....not all slick, but 'particularly' those that are....as a professional census peddler, surely you know we count non-citizens, right chief?
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
Why bring citizenship into the discussion at all? How is that possibly relevant to the question of whether Middle Easterners are classified as white? Of course not all Middle Easterners in this country are citizens, but the same is true of Europeans. You made it sound as if citizenship is some kind of a prerequisite for whiteness. If that isn't what you meant, I'll take your word for it, but if so, the problem isn't my reading skills--it's your writing skills!
shareI bet they were ghost white just before those planes hit the buildings.
shareI don't know where you get your facts from, but middle eastern/Arabs are white in ethnicity. do some research.
Arabs are Semitic. Persians are Aryan. share
Says who? they are a semitic people. Not european at all.
share"middle eastern/Arabs are white in ethnicity"
Eh, not really. Perhaps in ancient times, as Phoenicians (semites) settled on the coast of North Africa, but there were also indigenous people that were darker, so it was a mixed society. The arab invasion that began in the 7th century overwhelmed the northern coast of African and extended all the way into southern europe (including Sicily) where they stayed for centuries. This invasion did result in a more swarthy complexion for inhabitants of Northern Africa (and Sicily). But no, they weren't sub-saharan black, just darker than northern European whites.
cameron diaz is a down trodden minority.
shareNorthern Africa is not part of the Arabian Peninsula. At the time, those people were called Berbers and eventually they were absorbed into the Ottoman Empire. They didn't have the very dark complexion of sub-Saharans, but a complexion similar to what you will see in the region now.
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