Caucasian actually - from the same branch of the Caucusoid as the ancient Phonecians and Hebrews.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are Arabs black? > > -----Original Message----- > From: trish simon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:10 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: 5000 year old wooden door found buried in Zurich > > > 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 >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329938 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
