With the possible exception of "brown," all the English words we use for skin color are terribly inaccurate.
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A valid distinction
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That said, these race words started as (poor) descriptions of skin tone rather than arbitrary symbols like "red" and "blue" in politics.
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The race words might be better called "labels" than "descriptions."
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TAWNIES FOR THE TAWNY GOD
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