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All Michigan fans are raving about something.  I think everyone in the entire state is that way.  It stops at each state line, and the folks in the UP are pretty reasonable.  I think being surrounded by all that water makes it so.

I sort of bristle at times when someone says some group is not "white".  None of us are white.  Some of us are a rather pasty pale color that often we try and modify with sun light exposure.  That usually makes us red.  Not Indian red, just ugly pasty red.

What the heck does "white" mean?  Or black?  Do you know how far the Mongols intruded into Europe and the Middle East?  They weren't just there for the loot.

The race concept is inherently destructive IMHO and separates us for no good reason.

I objected to the census form.

Pretty sure there is Jewish ethnicity

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/498027/jewish/Are-Jews-a-Race.htm

All that geneticists know so far is that there is certainly a “cluster” of typical Jewish DNA. They’ve also been able to identify several distinct haplotypes—markers in the chromosome structure that cropped up in one individual and have been passed on ever since. That allows them to approximate the age of these unique features, along with a good guess at the geographic origin. The time machine of our genes show that most Jews have a shared ancestry that traces back to ancient Israel. Any competing theories will have to argue with hard science.2

We confirm the notion that the Ashkenazi, North African, and Sephardi Jews share substantial genetic ancestry and that they derive it from Middle Eastern and European populations, with no indication of a detectable Khazar contribution to their genetic origins.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/12/19/is-judaism-an-ethnicity-race-nationality-trump-signs-an-order-provokes-an-identity-crisis/

In the 1970s, according to General Social Survey data, 99 percent of U.S. Jews were categorized as white. Most of them were Ashkenazi, a European ethnic lineage specific to Jews. In this decade, data shows that 11 percent of U.S. Jews are not white — and some say that is an undercount, since people of color are sometimes overlooked by researchers trying to tally Jews. There are Jews of Ethiopian descent, Sephardic Jews from countries such as Iran, Iraq and Egypt, converts from across the racial spectrum, children of color adopted by Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews — and all of their children and grandchildren.

Pretty sure there is Jewish ethnicity

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/498027/jewish/Are-Jews-a-Race.htm

All that geneticists know so far is that there is certainly a “cluster” of typical Jewish DNA. They’ve also been able to identify several distinct haplotypes—markers in the chromosome structure that cropped up in one individual and have been passed on ever since. That allows them to approximate the age of these unique features, along with a good guess at the geographic origin. The time machine of our genes show that most Jews have a shared ancestry that traces back to ancient Israel. Any competing theories will have to argue with hard science.2

We confirm the notion that the Ashkenazi, North African, and Sephardi Jews share substantial genetic ancestry and that they derive it from Middle Eastern and European populations, with no indication of a detectable Khazar contribution to their genetic origins.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/12/19/is-judaism-an-ethnicity-race-nationality-trump-signs-an-order-provokes-an-identity-crisis/

In the 1970s, according to General Social Survey data, 99 percent of U.S. Jews were categorized as white. Most of them were Ashkenazi, a European ethnic lineage specific to Jews. In this decade, data shows that 11 percent of U.S. Jews are not white — and some say that is an undercount, since people of color are sometimes overlooked by researchers trying to tally Jews. There are Jews of Ethiopian descent, Sephardic Jews from countries such as Iran, Iraq and Egypt, converts from across the racial spectrum, children of color adopted by Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews — and all of their children and grandchildren.

Technically, I'm a Jew. It's passed down on your maternal bloodline, and my mother's mother was Jewish. 23andme has confirmed it, too... I'm a little over 20% Ashkenazi genetically, which makes perfect sense if 25% of my bloodline was actually Jewish.

I sort of bristle at times when someone says some group is not "white".  None of us are white.  Some of us are a rather pasty pale color that often we try and modify with sun light exposure.  That usually makes us red.  Not Indian red, just ugly pasty red.

What the heck does "white" mean?  Or black?  Do you know how far the Mongols intruded into Europe and the Middle East?  They weren't just there for the loot.

The race concept is inherently destructive IMHO and separates us for no good reason.

I objected to the census form.

The college world series?

(I wouldn't mind a return to the rules at some point. But for the moment, the lack of sports is making me shrug it off)