This is an intresting thread... and although I was around for that conversation, I totally forgot about Alex mentioning that she would start a thread on the forum. Glad you remembered!

There has been a fair bit written about "race play" lately--as it seems to be a kink that has slowly surfaced, or come out of the closet, so to speak.

Here is a link to an intersesting article...

http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story7_4_01.html

As far as racial terminology... my weekend job entails spending a heck of alot more time with blacks than whites, and since most of these are Carribean in origin, we don't use the term Afro-American. Now, of course it is arguable that most of the people in the W.I. are *originally* of African descent, if you trace it back. To anyone who brings that up, I would point out that we are ALL Ethiopian if you trace back far enough. (An apology for those of you hanging on to the picture of blue-eyed J.C. on your wall, but I'm not inviting a debate here, lol)