You could all read these articles on Wikipedia and see that this argument has been going on for years and will not be settled any time soon it seems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*****
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured
Yeah I know they're longer than 3 lines so some may not bother reading them, but at least it would stop these arguments going round and round on a constant basis.