Monday, March 06, 2006

On Racism

I love how people have different opinions and to make a person change his or her ways they swear and tell the person they are going to burn in hell. Wow, how original, how thought out, how defining of an era....or maybe not. [this comment was heard from someone arguing against racism, not that I want to attack someone attacking injustice, but wish that they would do so tactfully]

The fact of the matter is that when we look at the genetic makeup of people at the 6% of difference that there is, and begin to categorize people into those differences, we get 4 categories that somewhere inside of a box they can be charted. There are definitely 4 groups that can easily be made, and follow very closely to cultural background.

Those categories however, are made up all of various skin pigment groups. Skin pigment makes up one of the smallest differences in genetics that there is. There is a much higher degree of difference between people of Gaul and Celt background than between black and white, or any other group.

The bell curve was debunked, you have no legs to stand on. Racism is a socio-political farce.