Thread: Intesting video on Racial Identity

Indeed it is quite amazing, the single celled thing that is, I do not have an african identity, I have a White identity. however more to the point, my ancestors are not black africans, me and black africans had a common ancestor. Actually human's ancestors were originally white (as in without pigmentation), then the evolved black skin as natural selection in favour of protecing from high levels of UV rays, then as proto-whites moved to northern latitudes, natural selection reverted us back to white.

Xei as you live in the UK, have you ever been to bradford, or luton, or tower hamlets, or central birmingham? Would you mind if in 50 years the UK resembled these areas.

Originally Posted by Thatperson

Indeed it is quite amazing, the single celled thing that is, I do not have an african identity, I have a White identity. however more to the point, my ancestors are not black africans, me and black africans had a common ancestor. Actually human's ancestors were originally white (as in without pigmentation), then the evolved black skin as natural selection in favour of protecing from high levels of UV rays, then as proto-whites moved to northern latitudes, natural selection reverted us back to white.

lol nope

We were originally black because, lacking body fur, we were exposed to UV. When we moved to colder climates, the black pigment became a hindrance because the skin needs a certain amount of UV to synthesise vitamin D.

Xei as you live in the UK, have you ever been to bradford, or luton, or tower hamlets, or central birmingham? Would you mind if in 50 years the UK resembled these areas.

lol okay.

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Those areas are all poor. Poor areas have higher crime. Also, immigrants tend to be poor and of a different race.

Did you see a disproportionate of ethnic minorities in the riots? There weren't, it was white welfare yobs as much as anybody else.

well im not sure where you draw the line of human/non-human but some of our recent ancestors were lacking pigmentation (not needed due to the fur, i assume), as we lost our fur, then humans became black, and as the proto-eurasians moved out of africa, the pigmentation was lost. Not that it is relevent, My ancestors may have had black skin, and their ancestors had white skin, I am white now.

I don't really get your response, I said would you mind if in 50 years the UK resembled those areas, you haven't given an answer yet. As to the riots, yes they were disproportionately non-white. I suppose in Manchester it was more white than not, but pretty much everywhere else it was majority non-white. It was started by blacks in tottenham anyway.

Originally Posted by Thatperson

well im not sure where you draw the line of human/non-human but some of our recent ancestors were lacking pigmentation (not needed due to the fur, i assume), as we lost our fur, then humans became black, and as the proto-eurasians moved out of africa, the pigmentation was lost. Not that it is relevent, My ancestors may have had black skin, and their ancestors had white skin, I am white now.
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Did you not hear anything I just said? You're delusional..and in denial

what? The ancestor of humans and pan (chimpanzies) was white skinned, then as we lost fur the pigmentation made us black skinned, then proto-eurasians became white skinned as they mvoed towards higher latitutdes.

It's really a non issue anyway, if the colour of our ancestors from 500,000 years ago was light or dark skinned.

Originally Posted by Thatperson

what? The ancestor of humans and pan (chimpanzies) was white skinned, then as we lost fur the pigmentation made us black skinned, then proto-eurasians became white skinned as they mvoed towards higher latitutdes.

Where exactly did you get this information from?

I know white isn't a race, that was my entire point. However if you are grouping people then Arabs and jews would be white. Regardless of skin color everyone in europe and north africa(including middle east) came from the same group of people. Meaning Arabs and jews are white. Not only that, they are closely related whites.

I threw them both in there, because people act like Arabs and jews are different race, even though they come from the same area, which is silly. Any problems they got with each other is cultural not racial.

If you go back they are right we are all black. The people who stayed in Africa are what people considered black, people who went to northern africa and europe are white, and people who went east are asian or whatever you want to call them.

Hispanics are really in the same group as asians, because people went east and came across to america and then went south to south america. Though when the spanish came over they mixed with a lot of them, so a lot are white as well.

Of course we don't have to go all the way back to ancient times to find out that everyone is really the same race. For as long as different cultures been interacting with each other, they also been having sex with each other. A big chunk of people will probably find different 'races' mixed in with them at some point. Which is why I think in the next 500 years racial lines will disappear as everyone will be mixing like crazy. Especially with globalization.

I don't have anything against most racist people, because its generally from being raised a certain way or being ignorant. Though I do think they are wrong. And when I say the guy in the video is racist, I am talking about the fact that he is saying stupid stuff that doesn't make sense and is generally not true about different races.

Such as saying 'races' that are identical genetically have large differences in brain power. As for the not as smart races bring everyone down, how does he explain the middle east? The middle east has a ton of problems and according to him arabs and jews are the smartest of all the groups. So how come the smartest group has so many problems?

Hmm maybe because it isn't racial but a cultural problems? And cultural issues are learned, not genetic. The reason why areas with a lot of immgrants tend to be bad off, is because so many of the immgrants are poor. The issue is being poor, and often low education levels.

If you go back in history when we had a lot of poor white immgrants, that also caused problems as well. And you know what? Back then white people were racist and hated other poor white people, because they were bad for socity.

Here in a America however, we don't see it that way. We see the poor immegrants, and we want to give them chances to succeed and improve their life. And their lives do improve and they blend into our group american culture, and we gain new aspects thanks to their influence.

Which really gives the US the edge. When it comes with dealing with other people, the US should have a great advantage, because of our mixed backgrounds. And I think that is probably true when we are not attacking people. Saddly, that happens a little to often however.