The question is, when do you say "black person", when you're trying to
identify someone in a crowd or in a memory, using their most
distinguishing identity, like you would say "Scottish person" etc.?
Because of course we don't say "person with blackness", but we might,
if we thought about it, say "that person who happened to be black", or
"the person who wore the hat" (they may have been black) or probably
best of all "that person, the one whose name I remember to be John, or
Louise".
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:27:08 +0100 Susanna Hancock
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> I can never resist joining in a semantic debate so ...
>
> On the other hand, we don't say "people with blackness", we say
> "black person", don't we?
>
> Susanna.
>
>
> Susanna Hancock
> Equal Opportunities Officer
> QAAS
> ext: 6873
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