I have read the entire thread. And still I ponder why anyone would state
that Egyptians are not black?
What criteria is used to determine the race of an individual? Would that
include geographic location, skin color (range of shades), hair textures or
other physical features, or DNA? Hmmm....let's see what a person's DNA tells
about race:
"Race is a social construct, not a scientific classification," Robert S.
Schwartz, M.D. wrote (in "Race Is a Poor Measure," *New England Journal of
Medicine*, Vol. 344, No. 18, May 3, 2001). "Any attempt to establish lines
of division among biological populations is both arbitrary and subjective."
The Human Genome Project determined that 99.9% of the human genetic
complement is the same in everyone, regardless of race. This means that the
DNA of any two people will differ in one out of every thousand nucleotides,
the building blocks of individual genes. With more than 3 billion
nucleotides in the human genome, about 3 million nucleotides will differ
among individuals. While statistically small, this does allow for some
variation. "Admittedly," wrote Dr. Sally Satel, "race is a rough marker. A
black American may have dark skin - but his or her genes may well be a
complex mix of ancestors from west Africa, Europe and Asia. No serious
scientist, in fact, believes that genetically pure populations exist. Yet an
imprecise clue is better than no clue at all." ("A question of colour" in *The
Guardian*, 9 May 2002) But these differences between people are relatively
insignificant: skin pigment, eye shape, and hair texture. The physical
"stereotypes" of race, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza wrote in *The History and
Geography of Human Genes*, "reflect superficial differences."
That's the story and I am sticking to it!
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> IF you had read the discussion, you would have seen that we were doing
> exactly that.
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:09 PM, trish simon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Since I am an American citizen, I am merely pointing out a weakness that
> > needs to be addressed. We need to start changing our attitudes towards
> > people we deem inferior because of something as silly as skin color
>
>
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