Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: Rev. Wright is Right!: white people suck at rapping Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/rev_wright_is_right_white_people_suck_at_rapping#24691 Post contents: No one denies that race in some form exists, after all if it didn't we would all look alike. Perhaps race is nothing more than a group of people living in a geographic area for such a period of time that they start to look different, but it still is real and tangible. But what worries me is those who will use race as an -all-the-time factor in how they deal with people, without looking at an individual. This attitude of lumping people into groups is what both mainstream liberals and, sadly, many paleocons do. For example, one thing many white supremacists will use as "proof" that lighter people are genetically better than darks is the fact that dark people in Africa were still in tribal stages while Europeans were very advanced when they made contact with those tribes of lower Africa. Problem with that theory is that the regions we call the British Isles were also stone-age tribes when the Roman's came over, so are the White supremacists going to admit that Mediterranean folk are better by blood than those living on the western edges of the European continent? And what does one make of North versus South American Indians, where in the North the best ruins we have are the canyon brick towns, while in the South and Central America we had giant cities of stone and Astronomers? Also how does one square Cambodian Ancient Angkor with nearby people who were much less developed. Clearly race and Culture do not go hand-in-hand, and I do not think we will ever know what factors and mixture of factors leads a man in a cave from sticks and loin clothes to making roads, stone monuments and agriculture Sent at: 2008 07 24