>>> John Boone on Black and White 
 WE>  JB> Notice, not white makes no statements or distinctions 
 WE>  JB> amoung the various classes of not-whites.  
 
 WE> Indeed, that's why 'not white' is not equivalent to 'black'. 
 JB> You got it, but notice the reason such is the case, there 
 JB> are -MORE- divisions of -non-white. 
But black is not equivalent to not white, now is it?
For the same reason, that there are -more- divisions of non-black?
... Agnostics have the benefit of the doubt.
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