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I think according to Darwin ,there were White people in Africa thousands of years ago along with Black people but the white people got ate up because they couldn't run Jump or climb as fast as the black people, I think?
REALLY?!?
You really think Darwin said that?
Is that what they are teaching about Darwin in Intelligent Design textbooks?
I see the most "homogenizing" in blacks. I do admit to missing the dark-skinned blacks like the ones I grew up with. And I shudder at the thought of everyone "looking the same" centuries down the road.
However, I still think mixing is part of evolution.
Im confused, are there no more dark skinned black people where you live?
Well, ideally we would get rid of bigotry, but that's not likely. So I guess homogenization is second best.
Hold on a second and think about that question before you automatically dismiss it as a racist question.
Several years ago I had to take a class in "sensitivity" for my job in corrections. One of the case workers (a Female born in Porto (sic?) Rico) made the statement that when her Grandchildren were grown that the races would be so mixed from interracial marriages that there would no longer be easily identifiable races but everyone would be a light brown color. I had to think about that for a while but after contemplating the idea it made sense.
I see examples of that every day here in Lincoln, Nebraska. The typical African/American is a totally different complexion than the recent immigrants we have from countries like Chad, Somalia, Nigeria etc. Those recent immigrants are a pure racial strain as a rule. The typical African/American that is a descendant of slaves has mixed blood for the most part. Japan is a good example of a population with little racial mixing.
If we lose that "uniqueness" of racial purity it will be lost forever. The variety of the Human Race has always amazed me and the mixing of Races has never bothered me. However I am not sure if having a "Homogenized" population is really a worthy goal. Compare the variety of the human races to a field full of flowers. Would we appreciate flowers nearly as much if they were all one color? I think the analogy can be made with the Human Races.
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We are already a "homogenized" population Race is a genetic non-issue
One study showed we are in fact more genetically similar across the planet than two troops of chimpanzees living on opposite sides of the same mountain.
In America mixing the classes is much more of an issue than mixing races. When was the last time you heard of a son or daughter of a family whose wealth goes back many generations married some one who grew up on welfare? Or a Harvard or Yale graduate marring a state college grad or some one with out an education.
White working class men that I know personally forbid their high school daughters from dating Black boys not because they are black but because they think only lower class Whites let their daughters date black boys around here.
Well, ideally we would get rid of bigotry, but that's not likely. So I guess homogenization is second best.
I don't think that's gonna happen. The only place it is happening at all, is in White countries. Nobody else is being pressured to. The idea here is The White Race has got to go, but not the other races.
"The white race is the cancer of human history." Sontag later issued a partial apology for her statement, saying it was insensitive to cancer victims." ~wikipedia
In America mixing the classes is much more of an issue than mixing races. When was the last time you heard of a son or daughter of a family whose wealth goes back many generations married some one who grew up on welfare? Or a Harvard or Yale graduate marring a state college grad or some one with out an education.
White working class men that I know personally forbid their high school daughters from dating Black boys not because they are black but because they think only lower class Whites let their daughters date black boys around here.
You're correct in that a Harvard or Yale graduate won't generally marry a person who grew up on welfare, or someone with no education, but somebody who's a state college grad as opposed to a Harvard or Yale grad? Not so sure about that.
I also think that many white people, be they working class, middle class or upper class, still don't want their high school daughters to go out with black guys, at least in part because of race. Some people are genuinely concerned about interdating and/or intermarriage between whites and blacks, however, because, even today, there's still a great deal of stigma attached to it, as well as much hostility towards the idea, which can and does sometimes put a couple in a very tough position.
pay attention to the other dynamics and take a wider view and you will notice something. as every country and society will end up being industrialized and living in modern conditions, what dictated the various races of the past is going to be moot. the world is global, so is exchange of culture etc and we live in modern shelters. in other words, people are going to end up looking the same and being more similar than different in the distant future because they are going to have similar lifestyles and live sheltered from the elements.
this is understood, of course, by those who understand cause and effect and evolution.
so relax, there are greater things that move and shape the world than someone's provincial and in the greater scheme of things, rather myopic and petty concerns and erroneous beliefs.
I'm old enough to have seen the civil rights movement on TV, to have drank from whites-only fountains, and everyone in my high school was white (or in a very few cases, oriental) when I graduated from there. My parents and grandparents were out-and-out bigots. My father lived long enough to shed some of that when a black couple, a CPA and an engineer with two kids who went to college on full rides, moved next door to him, and was man enough to admit he had been wrong.
There's something about seeing the phrase "racial purity" that I find deeply offensive. I cannot help but believe that at some level, the person who finds "racial purity" to be somehow important finds a need to differentiate, on a qualitative basis, between the races, with the necessary conclusion that his or her race is somehow superior. Otherwise, why would "purity" be at all important?
I am cheered by the thought that my great-great-great-great grandchildren stand a good chance of being a nice cafe au lait color...and if not them, then it will happen, eventually. Get over it.
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