On Jan 25, 5:50*am, dave wrote:
On 01/24/2011 04:12 PM, RHF wrote:

On Jan 24, 5:38 am, John *wrote:
On Jan 24, 10:59 am, *wrote:

In a pub quiz the other day I lost by one point. The question was where do
women mostly have curly hair? Apparently, it's Africa.

--
Burr

- Ah! that's bad luck you lost Burr. The Afrikaners here in the
- apartheid years had the "pencil test" to see whether you were
- classified white or black. If the official put the pencil in your
hair
- and it fell out, then you were classified white. If the pencil stuck
- you were classified black.
-
- John Plimmer, MONTAGU , South Africa

- - The "Brown Paper Bag" Test and 'Colorism'
- - in African-American Culture
- - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloris...paper_bag_test
- -
- - Also called the Wooden "Ruler" Test
- - http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...paper+bag+test
- - .
- - 1. 'Brown Paper Bag' Test
- - 2. 'Pencil' Test
- - 3. 'Bible Balance' Test
- - 4. 'Pronunciation' Test : Axe -v-Ask
- - 5. Special Test *{Hello Honey :-}
- -
- - ...and... the 'One Drop' Rule
- - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
- - .
- - .

'Special-Dave' All the above have to be viewed in
their Historical Context of the former Official Racist
White Culture in the USA; and the Self-Imposed and
Internalized Racism {Colorism} That the African-
American Sub-Culture Adopted as it's own unofficial
Racist Black Culture for nearly 100 Years after the
Civil War.