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Originally posted by Seraphim_Serpente
What is the difference guys? This is all just Superficial Characteristics!
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by df1
Originally posted by Molloy XX
The reality of racial differences...
A number of years ago in a college sociology class we were administered an IQ test developed by blacks. The results of the test indicated that blacks in the class had a higher IQ than whites. The whites in the class howled that the test was bias. It seems that your "facts" are most likely guilty of a similar bias.
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mind you, that sort of reinforces the racial differences argument
Which word is most out of place here?
(a) splib, (b) blood, (c) gray, (d) spook, (e) black.
Originally posted by BlackGuardXIII. If white people are mutants, the mutation has not improved the lot of humanity at all, but more likely has done the opposite.
Originally posted by halo_aura
Actually, what is reinforces is the role of environment in human development.
I can guarantee you that if you took a Zulu baby at birth and raised him as a member of the royal court that child would speak the Queen's English and do as well on tests as his lily-white peers.
Originally posted by nim_rod_13
'White' people originated from Mars and came to earth after a cataclysm (venus) to enslave the original inhabitants(the 'blacks') of 'earth'(EA), working them away for gold and other minerals, hence the government. Over the years 'modifiers' traveled/came from under/shifted to earth to 'genetically' 'enhance' and some to manipulate mankind through whatever means. Evidence of this ancient outside contact,if you will, is everywhere if one seeks hard enough.
also There were few who were discussing the first establishment of flight/aircraft and something to do with the french being the first or the wright brothers...
www.ufoarea.com...
www.world-mysteries.com...
www.lost-civilizations.net...
www.geocities.com...
peace.
[edit on 9-2-2005 by nim_rod_13]
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by OpenSecret2012
[ As some one mentioned on one of the past posts, then explain why Eskimos (or Inuites) who have black skin are able to survive near the North Pole?
And why when Ghenghis Khan was invading Europe he was leader of 3 armies - two of them made up of people with black skin. (The Khara Khitai, and the Kusanas.) People from India/Asia, and from modern day Africa. When they were pillaging, ravaging, and plundering, the eastern, and centrial Europeans, non of the black skinned Indians, or Africans, were keeling over from Vitamin D defencies during the years they spent taking over Europe.
[edit on 1-2-2005 by OpenSecret2012]
When referring to the term "black skin", this would be in reference to sub saharan africans, not eskimos and the soldiers of Ghengis Khan, just as a point of order
Originally posted by OpenSecret2012
Hmm... so now the term "Black" strictly means people from only the southern area of the continent of Africa? Or people who look like the people who live in the southern area of the continient of Africa?
Why is Mariah Carey called "black" then? Her skin is pale. Why is Brad Pitt called "white" then? His skin is darker than Mariah's.
There are Indians (from India), Asians, Indonesians, Chinese, Mongolains, etc.. with skin that is jet dark "black". Ahhh but they are not from the southern area of Africa. So are they then "white"?
Eskimos have skin that is as dark as say... Charles Barkley, and Laurence Fishbourn. Eskimos have skin that is 100 times darker than Mariah Carey's skin. If those Eskimo's are not black then Charles Barkley and Laurence Fishbourn are not black.
[edit on 14-2-2005 by OpenSecret2012]
Originally posted by Seraphim_Serpente
What about "Alicia Keys"?! Now I am a "White Guy" - but she is a
"Soul Sista" that I would DEFINATLY like to get to know Personally - if you know what I mean!
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by BlackGuardXIII. If white people are mutants, the mutation has not improved the lot of humanity at all, but more likely has done the opposite.
and in one fell swoop you indulge in a bit of "racism" yourself
*nods sagely at the hypocrisy*
Originally posted by Growling Lion
I remember reading a story once that said we all come from Africa and that white people are nothing more than a genetic mutation. I wonder what would happen if black albinos were to all stick together and to try to get away and form a new group. Would all of the people stay white or if they interbred would they all stay white? I always felt that nationalities look they way they do because they interbred many years ago and all are related from a long time ago. Please put in your two cents.
Originally posted by SkipShipman
Originally posted by Growling Lion
I remember reading a story once that said we all come from Africa and that white people are nothing more than a genetic mutation. I wonder what would happen if black albinos were to all stick together and to try to get away and form a new group. Would all of the people stay white or if they interbred would they all stay white? I always felt that nationalities look they way they do because they interbred many years ago and all are related from a long time ago. Please put in your two cents.
Going back to the beginning, consider your question about mutation. In my thoughts mutation equates to genetic diversity. In the African population we have more genetic diversity, than in the European Caucasian population. Considering the population bottleneck some seventy thousand years ago that narrowed the genetic diversity to near non existence, this is a profound point of understanding the development of human beings. There are still more "mutations," or points of genetic diversity within the African population than within the latter Caucasian population.
[edit on 14-2-2005 by SkipShipman]
Originally posted by BlackGuardXIII
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by BlackGuardXIII. If white people are mutants, the mutation has not improved the lot of humanity at all, but more likely has done the opposite.
and in one fell swoop you indulge in a bit of "racism" yourself
*nods sagely at the hypocrisy*
Does my opinion on the current global state of humankinds gross fiscal inequity and cross the board red flags of scientifically calculated cases of various impending unavoidable total resource depletion realities qualify as racist? I am truly convinced that there is only one race, the human race. My hypothetical suggestion that it appears to me that the colonial and imperial nations that have defeated, occupied, and economically directed numerous foreign nations in all areas of the world, for their own gain, have not been as forward thinking and responsible as was necessary to avert a disaster, can be interpretated as being racist, yes. However, I only made known my hypothetical opinion in the context of the mutant-white people conjecture being assumed to be correct. It is not, imho.The idea that bronze and wooden tools could have done the job in any amount of time is my take on it. The sarcophagus in the Kings chamber is a mystery all by itself. As is the 200 ton granite block in its ceiling is over 200 feet up off the ground. Modern crane operators are not able to do that with the biggest cranes in the world. those bronze tools must have been really sharp. to have so perfecty finished the facing stones so expertly. I look forward to your proofs that the logisticalk, physical, and mathmatical feats they successfully solved are indeed feasible.
I wonder how I missed this epic newsflash...oh well.
Originally posted by SkipShipman
Originally posted by Growling Lion
I remember reading a story once that said we all come from Africa and that white people are nothing more than a genetic mutation. I wonder what would happen if black albinos were to all stick together and to try to get away and form a new group. Would all of the people stay white or if they interbred would they all stay white? I always felt that nationalities look they way they do because they interbred many years ago and all are related from a long time ago. Please put in your two cents.
Going back to the beginning, consider your question about mutation. In my thoughts mutation equates to genetic diversity.
In the African population we have more genetic diversity, than in the European Caucasian population. Considering the population bottleneck some seventy thousand years ago that narrowed the genetic diversity to near non existence, this is a profound point of understanding the development of human beings. There are still more "mutations," or points of genetic diversity within the African population than within the latter Caucasian population.
So to answer your question, no the "white people," are not mutants at least within their own population if there is one, but more homogenous or evenly distributed as to genetic diversity. You may Google search on this issue of genetic diversity.
The fact that Caucasian people are derivational from African people is not the point, when one accepts the "out of Africa hypothesis," that is backed within studies of mitochondrial DNA. There appears to be no "counter migration," to Africa, to support any other theory.
I am satisfied with my earlier commentary that Caucasian people developed within the ice age and northern migration position,
that Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets narrowing the hips of women.
If one accepts natural selection, then it is entirely arguable that lighter skinned migrating people survived over many generations, whereas darker skinned people did not due to inefficiencies in the production of Vitamin D.
While there may be countless other factors identifying "mutation," it appears the population of African people originated the lighter skinned "mutation," and rather the lighter skinned sensitivity to sun hence Vitamin D production. It arises out of the African genetic diversity and survival selectivity, and it is a quality that appears to develop over time. It is not strictly any sense of immediate mutation.
Hopefully this clarifies the original commentary and question, while the answer is no in some respects, and yes in other respects. Genetic diversity is not necessarily mutation, for example an immediate divergence from the overall population which is usually considered a defect, a non survival quantity.
[edit on 14-2-2005 by SkipShipman]
Originally posted by BattleofBatoche
I live in Canada! Eskimos, or the Inuit do not have black skin, nor do they have brown skin. Most are actually pinkish so there!!!