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October 21st, 2017 - 1:50 am § in Uncategorized

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Adam and Eve .. she was a Neanderthal!

Neanderthal-Human Hybrid Unearthed DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of a modern human found in Europe contains Neanderthal genes. By Bob Grant | June 22, 2015 DNA taken from a 40,000-year-old modern human jawbone from the cave Pestera cu Oase in Romania reveals that this man had a Neandertal ances[...]

June 11th, 2017 - 3:40 am § in Misc.

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Ending Racism

 “Race” is a term with no definition outside of bigotry. As for as I know, none of the world’s bibles define humans as anything more than one species.  Our ancestors certainly identified by tribe or people but those distinctions were not based on the bizarre idea of distinct hum[...]

March 11th, 2017 - 10:52 pm § in Misc.

The Ave Challenge: What race were the Neanderthal?

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February 11th, 2017 - 1:44 am § in Jews, Misc.

Four months after the Colonies received 100 White children as slaves, the first shipment of Black slaves arrived.

American slavery has a unique flavor, the flavor of race, the idea that African humans were a different race, a lesser race that could be owned like cattle.  But Whites were also treated as slaves, under another name. (Based on an essay at Radio2Hot.com.  Parts of this text are from that essay.) T[...]

October 7th, 2016 - 9:12 pm § in Uncategorized

‘The Atlantic’ Endorses Republican For President

The Atlantic magazine has endorsed a candidate for president only three times in its history. Here is their endorsement in its entirety. While all of us have been watching, with that admiring sympathy which never fails to wait on courage and magnanimity, the career of the new Timoleon in Sicily,—w[...]

June 18th, 2016 - 9:56 am § in Misc.

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Extinction of humans.

A study of the maternal genes of skeletal and mummified remains of 92 South Americans dating from 8,600 to 500 years ago shows that all those lineages were wiped out. No living person descended from any the individuals tested is known to be living today.   In a time where people loosely use the wo[...]

March 25th, 2016 - 1:26 am § in Misc.

SMS on racism

Obama’s obvious resemblance to  his “white” grandfather makes a point.   Yes humans .. modern humans, arose in Africa. They spread quickly over the world and diversified. Diverse feature arose by Darwinian selection and by interbreeding with other human species.     As[...]

December 21st, 2015 - 1:16 pm § in Misc.

How folks got to be “white”

What is “race?” You may tell people that race isn’t real and doesn’t matter, but they can’t catch a cab,” Ota Wang said. “So unless we take that into account it makes us sound crazy.” By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 16, 2005[...]

September 25th, 2015 - 11:11 am § in Misc.

Of Jews and Race

The idea that Jews are “white” is racist and deeply offensive to me.   I grew up as a Jew in a very antisemitic part of Boston.  After my Dad returned from his service in WWII Germany, his life was threatened by toughs.  I still treasure the German “head breaker” cane he [...]

July 9th, 2015 - 1:02 am § in Misc.

HuffPost Interview: “So from a biological standpoint, it doesn’t seem to make much sense to use the term “race.”

There’s no doubt that different groups of people can look very different from one another. But to contemporary anthropologists and sociologists, the notion that there are distinct “races” of human beings, each with its own specific attributes, doesn’t make much sense. Dr. Mar[...]