There is no DNA test to prove you’re Native American’ By Linda Geddes “People think there is a DNA test to prove you are Native American. There isn’t” DNA testing is changing how Native Americans think about tribal membership. Yet anthropologist Kim Tallbear… tells Linda Gedde[...]
Posts Tagged ‘race’
December 27th, 2015 - 7:39 pm § in Misc.
So I have to say I’ll kill you
David Preston So I have to say I’ll kill you . . . in a song: The fine art of threatening to blow someone’s head off. Here’s an example of screwed-up people trying to drag others into their quagmire of moral confusion. A high school student in Mississippi was suspended after he r[...]
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[...]
November 17th, 2015 - 7:41 pm § in Misc.
How come no one here is flying the Nigerian flag at half mast?
Leonard Lawrence FACEBOOK WHILE EVERYBODY IS MAKING NOISE OVER WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE , LET US ALSO PRAY FOR THE 2000 SOULS THAT WAS MURDERED AND BURNED IN NIGERIA IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. BUT YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT BECA– USE IT DIDN’T MAKE THE NEWS[...]
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 26th, 2015 - 9:59 am § in Misc.
Spelman College Drops Bill Cosby Professorship Spelman’s move follows the release of a document where Cosby admits getting drugs to give women for sex Posted: 07/25/2015[...]
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[...]
“Funny you do not look Jewish?”
Is There a Jewish Race? Dear Aaron, So much of what I read today is about a racial divide. My problem is I do not understand how there can be a racial divide without someone telling me how to define “race.” So am I, a “Jew,” part of a Jewish “race?” Can I[...]