Racists note:Sometimes Your Own Worst Enemy Is Yourself
Gabrielle Bluestone 3/30/15 11:30pm
Once upon a time a man started hitting his head against a wall. A passerby asked him, "Why are you hitting your head against that wall?" "Because it feels so... Well, I guess because I don't have a weirdly strong mirror like that cute little goat."
The man stopped for a moment and then he started again because as it turned out, it had felt rather good when he stopped.
.. the above was prompted by the "A Native American's Warning to the White Race" in yours .. two quotes ..
"Your worst enemy is white people" "I agree" .. the video ..
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Still I Rise - Poem by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
The Origin Of European people - white race debunked!
so beautifully and gracefully presented it might surprise you, if you haven't seen it before .. lol, cool, eh .. that one runs into Why White People are Called Caucasian (Illustrated)
University of California Television (UCTV)
Published on Mar 13, 2014
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Nell Painter combines the discursive meanings of scholarship with the visual meaning of painting, to answer, literally, why white people are called 'Caucasian,' what that looks like, and how they all relate to our ideas about personal beauty. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 26025] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZDapgQdFo
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This Australian anti-discrimination video which not coincidentally
deals with the culturally inspired and conservative media driven neuron set of implicit/unconscious racism mentioned in the very good Tim Wise video 15 down in yours, i didn't get to on the first visit ..
Chuckle .. your Chris Rock is a funny guy .. a fellow .. George Carlin on white people
Scroll down below any viral video and you will find users waging war in the comments section, dropping racial slurs and epithets from another time. Curious about his haters, Theo E.J. Wilson did the only reasonable thing – he went undercover and joined their ranks. In this insightful and downright hilarious talk, Theo shares some surprising discoveries about both sides of the aisle.
Slam poet Theo E.J. Wilson, a.k.a Lucifury, is a founding member of Denver’s SlamNUBA team, which won the National Poetry Slam in 2011. He began his speaking career with the NAACP at the age of 15 and has always been passionate about social justice. Theo is currently the Executive Director of Shop Talk Live, an organization that uses the barbershop as a staging ground for community dialogue and healing.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
The continued prominence of racism is explored through the prism of white privilege in the engrossing documentary White Like Me. Based upon a book of the same name by anti-racist advocate Tim Wise, the film explores the many advantages afforded to whites throughout the history of the United States, and the extent to which they have defined a culture of racial discrimination that continues to this day.
The shameful days of blatant segregation thankfully exist in the rear-view mirror of the country's history. But although great strides have been made in the arena of racial equality, the residue of discrimination still reverberates in nearly every corner of society. The film argues that the promise of a post-racial society has not yet been realized, and that the deeply embedded traditions of white privilege are largely to blame.
"For more than twenty years now, I've been trying to better understand for myself and to raise awareness among others how dangerous and damaging it is when white people like me are blind to racial inequality and our own privileges," says Wise in the film. That search for understanding begins in a study of the laws, policies and institutions that have long informed America's identity, including the Naturalization Act of 1790, and the initial enactments of programs that ensured social security and veteran benefits.
Whether obvious or insidious in their approach, the documentary contends that each of these instances catered to some level of racial discrimination in their formation, and set a foundation from which individual attitudes and governmental policies continue to operate.
White Like Me goes on to explore avenues like education, housing, the prison system, the government-waged War on Drugs, and additional aspects of American society in which racial discrimination still plays an informing role. Along the way, the film also tackles the notion of reverse racism in the age of affirmative action, and the belief that America has moved beyond matters of race in the wake of electing its first president of color. White Like Me handles these potentially inflammatory subjects with great sensitivity and frankness, and supports its assertions with a wealth of enlightening facts and data.
Scientists trace modern humans to a single giant wetland in southern Africa
One of F6's (Mark's) large ones, headed "Negrotown"
By science reporter Suzannah Lyons Updated about 8 hours ago First posted earlier today at 04:25
Jul'hoansi hunters have some of the longest living lineages of our human history. (Supplied: Chris Bennett, Evolving Picture)
Today, the land south of the Zambezi River is dry and inhospitable. Only a collection of large salt pans hint at what the area was like in the past.
Key points
* New research traces the earliest ancestors of modern humans to a specific location in southern Africa 200,000 years ago
* They lived in a wetland the size of New Zealand for 70,000 years before the first migrations out of the homeland when the climate changed
* The evidence came from mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mothers to children
But if you could travel back in time 200,000 years, you would see a lush wetland the size of New Zealand stretching across what is now northern Botswana, heading into Namibia in the west and Zimbabwe in the east.
It was home to giraffes, lions and zebras — and new Australian-led research suggests it was also the birthplace of the earliest ancestors of our own species: anatomically modern humans.
The study, published in Nature .. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1714-1 .. this morning, used DNA sequencing cross-referenced with other information, including geological and climate data, to pinpoint the origin of our earliest maternal lineage, known as L0.
Mitochondrial DNA, which is found in the mitochondria or "batteries" of our cells, is only passed down to you from your mother. Whereas your nuclear DNA, found in the nuclei of your cells, you inherit from both parents.
"We've known for a long time that modern humans originated in Africa, and roughly 200,000 years ago, but what we hadn't known until this study was where exactly this homeland was," said Garvan Institute geneticist Vanessa Hayes, a co-author of the paper.
We also weren't sure where our ancestors travelled to next, and this research sheds light on that too.
"This wetland … was actually an oasis in a desert," Professor Hayes said.
It was completely surrounded by a very uninhabitable area, which led to our hunter-gatherer ancestors staying put for some 70,000 years.
Then 130,000 years ago the climate began to change, first opening up a green corridor to the northeast, and 20,000 years later to the southwest.
This matches the divergence we see in the genetic data around this time as well, so the scientists are confident that this is when the first migrations out of our homeland began.
Longest living lineage of our human history
Professor Hayes with an extended Jul'hoansi family who live in region thought to be the birthplace of modern humans. (Supplied: Chris Bennett, Evolving Picture)
To trace our very earliest origins, the researchers collected blood samples from study participants in Namibia and South Africa, looking for people who carry markers of the L0 lineage or rare L0 sub-lineages.
When a screened participant was shown to have one of these known markers, the team sequenced their whole mitochondrial genome or mitogenome, enabling them to contribute 198 new mitogenomes to the current L0 database of over 1,000.
They already knew that the KhoeSan from southern Africa carried the L0 lineage, but they wanted to look more widely than that.
"We actually set out to look for rare lineages in people who today don't identify as KhoeSan," said lead author Eva Chan, a statistical geneticist also at the Garvan Institute.
This helped Dr Chan and her colleagues unravel the complexity of a lineage stretching back 200,000 years.
"This is the longest living lineage of our human history," said Professor Hayes.
"It can't just be as simple as KhoeSan as one people, so we really had to tease that out,"
Mitochondrial DNA is relatively short, consisting of a modest 16,000 DNA base pairs — compared to the three billion base pairs of our regular genome, found inside the nucleus.
It also has a slightly higher mutation rate, which means geneticists can extract more information from each generation, Dr Chan said.
This mutation rate allows scientists to use the mitochondrial DNA as a clock, to estimate a timeline for how the lineage developed and diverged.
"And because [the mitogenome] is small and abundant in human cells, we can actually sequence a lot of individuals and get a lot of information," Dr Chan said.
Does this settle the debate about where we came from?
The most genetically diverse human populations are found in southern Africa. (Supplied: Chris Bennett, Evolving Picture)
In the long debate about where our species originated, the data always points back to southern Africa. That's because the most genetically diverse populations are found there, Professor Hayes said.
"The closer we get to our human origins, the more diverse the population is going to be because they've had a longer time to acquire mutations," she said.
"Based on the current data, I do believe that southern Africa is the most logical origin … of the founder population of L0 — and everyone walking around today."
While other human lineages may have split off from L0 and then gone extinct, we don't have any information from these people.
"We are just talking about the survivors of the last 200,000 years," Professor Hayes said.
The paper is significant because it reports a new set of mitogenomes, said evolutionary biologist David Lambert, of Griffith University, who was not involved in the study.
But he thinks using only mitogenomes was a limitation of the work, and being able to pinpoint the timing of events using only the sequence of mitochondrial DNA is a "debatable proposition".
"The really powerful stuff is when you use whole genomes, and I think that's the next step," Professor Lambert said.
Archaeological scientist Ian Moffatt of Flinders University was also intrigued by the research, but would have liked to see more information about how the archaeology of the region puts the genetic results in context.
"For me, the big take home message from this paper, and the exciting part of it is to say, this is a question that begs further investigation, both from a geological and an archaeological point of view," Dr Moffat said.
Dr Chan agrees that additional archaeological and nuclear DNA data could give rise to different stories and hypotheses about our origins.
"One day we'll be able to have the computational power to combine all these pieces of information together, [and get] an even clearer picture of our history, and that will be a great day."
Neanderthal DNA has been proven transferred to all Non-Indigenous Africans, from Neanderthal male to Homo Sapien female, most likely in Arabia/Middle East early in our migration just outside of Africa. Neanderthals are not extinct, as they live on in all non-Africans, providing 10 genome variants that indigenous Africans lack!!!
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