tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49932739062744650822024-03-13T08:10:20.717-07:00The American Journal of Color Arousal<b>"The practice of racism (sic) constitutes a crime for which no bail will be permitted and which may not be authorized, punishable by prison as statutorily prescribed."- - Brazilian Constitution, Art. V, XLII.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-18016659921640835052012-11-12T14:49:00.002-08:002012-11-12T14:51:04.583-08:00Washington Post Cites Weaknesses of "Monochromatic" Republican Party<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3em;">Examine the following paragraph </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/the-gop-is-no-party-for-blacks-latinos-and-gays/2012/11/12/ebfecab2-2c73-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_blog.html" style="color: #336699; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3em;">from today's Washington Post</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3em;"> and you can see a fundamental North American white supremacist paradigm shifting and giving way:</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What many Republican leaders fail to understand is that the party is leaving votes on the table that could be theirs. Votes they once were able to attract before they became viewed as a collection of mean, <i>monochromatic</i> and reactionary people clinging to Ronald Reagan’s America instead of coming to terms with, if not embracing, the vibrant nation we live in today. (Emphasis added.)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the pages of the Washington Post, at least one younger African-American writer has begun to realize that America is heterochromatic, the Republican Party is "monochromatic," and "race" (which was once considered the only appropriate term for "skin color") is actually a fallacious fantasy concept with no basis in science or relevance in analytic social studies. </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In fact, in the above paragraph, Johnathan Capehart demonstrates that it is entirely possible and, yes, preferable to discuss skin chromaticity, and monochromaticity, without every using the term "race."</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a feat that many Black and white writers still believe to be impossible, Mr. Capehart writes his entire article, explaining every proposition about skin color without ever using or relying upon the anachronistic and unscientific "race" fallacy. It's instructive to read the comments to the article as well, since the word "race" is used twenty-nine times in the comments to an article that never mentions "race" at all. Apparently, many misinformed readers still believe that they cannot discuss skin color without reference to "race," and so that pejorative epithet persists in the conversation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I first began to use the term <b><a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com.br/2007/05/black-woman-struggles-with-color.html" style="color: #336699;">bi-chromatic in, perhaps, 2007</a></b>, when I realized that (1) continuing to use the "race" word inevitably perpetuates the false belief that "races" exist in the first place, and (2) chromaticity is a scientific word referring to a quality that can be measured in a scientific way, while "race" is a white supremacist term referring to centuries-long propaganda effort aimed at convincing Blacks and whites that science existed where it didn't. </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To see how revolutionary is the reference to chromaticity instead of "race," consider how often the word "race" is used in an opening paragraph of a 1896 ex-slave autobiography, </span></span><span class="lrg bold" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Incidents-Life-Slave-Written-Herself/dp/1613822928/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352757825&sr=8-1&keywords=slave+autobiography" style="color: #336699;">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself</a>,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="med reg" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harriet-A.-Jacobs/e/B001IGO4NY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1352757825&sr=8-1" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Harriet A. Jacobs</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">and how much the term </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">defined and </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">circumscribed the writer's sense of who she was and what that meant:</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>We, as the Negro <i>Race</i>, are a free people, and God be praised for it. We as the Negro <i>Race</i>, need to feel proud of the <i>race</i>, and I for one do with all my heart and soul and mind, knowing as I do, for I have labored for the good of the <i>race</i>, that their children might be the bright and shining lights. And we can see the progress that we are making in an educational way in a short time, and I think that we should feel very grateful to God and those who are trying to help us forward. God bless such with their health, and heart full of that same love, that this world can not give nor taketh away.</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are many doors that are shut to keep us back as a </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>race</i>, but some are opened to us, and God be praised for those that are opened to the <i>race</i>, and I hope that they will be true to their trust and be of the greatest help to those that have given them a chance.</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">So profound is the concept of race, as opposed to mere skin-color, embedded in her understand of herself and her world that she uses the term "race" five times in two paragraphs, without ever mentioning skin-color, which was the specious basis upon which the existence of fallacious "race" was proposed.</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clearly that slave narrative reflects a fundamental acceptance of the difference and otherness that the term "race" implies, with separate aspirations based on skin color as a fact of life, but which paradigm a substantial number of white-skinned American voters rejected in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, when they decided that brown-skinned Barack Obama was more similar to them and their aspirations than was white-skinned John McCain and Mitt Romney, while rejecting the paradigm in which skin-color = race = fundamental and over-arching <i>difference. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Johnathan Capehart's use of the word</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> "monochromatic" </i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">is, I predict, a sign of a fundamental reordering of this </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">nation's</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">and the world's understanding of what skin chromaticity means and doesn't mean as a matter of science. As a matter of genetics, skin color means skin color and cannot be relied upon to mean anything else at all, according to the </span><a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">US Department of Energy's Human Genome Project</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> findings, based on mapping the entire human genome.</span></div>
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Hmm. Is the cast of this movie all-white? Was it made during apartheid, or was it made by people whose minds are still living in apartheid.<br />
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Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the all-white movie post isn't indicative of an all-white film. Maybe it just seems that way.</div>
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Unabomber, I think you're right. People have been obsessed with this "race" thing ever since they invented the word to embody all of their color-aroused antagonistic attitudes associated with skin color. Once the concept was invented, it became like an open source code to which everyone with a color-aroused feeling, a color-aroused thought and/or a color-aroused behavior could add something. Like apps for Android, over the last 400 years many people and institutions have conceived of reasons to add to this open source code and many of them have developed killer applications that have dominated the human mind. They have created a virtual world that seems so real that it has become virtually impossible for us to remember and recognize that this virtual world is entirely of "our" (humans') own creation.<br /><br />Every time any of us uses the word "race," we contribute something to the open source code of "race."<br /><br />"Race" is actually the furthest thing there is from science. Skin color, like any other color, such as a paint chip from our house, can be measured scientifically and can even be designated with reference to numbers in the Internet Color Chart -- the one that HTML coders use to make colors appear in web pages. Skin color is knowable. The only way that most of us can change the reality of a skin color is by mating with someone of a different skin color.<br /><br />However, any one of us can contribute to the open source code of "race," and to perceptions about what "race is," just by sharing and promoting ideas about it, e.g. on the Internet. "Race" is and "race" becomes whatever most people, or people most in power, believe it to be, subject to how it is used. In that sense, concepts of "race" are the furthest thing there is from a science, because "race" exists only in our minds. People who study "race" are not studying the natural world; they are studying human emotions and beliefs and the behaviors that result from these emotions and beliefs.<br /><br />Like Pokemon characters, the content of "race" is ever-changing and is as variable as the human imagination.</div>
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@<a href="http://www.movieweb.com/u/francislholland" style="border: 0px; color: red; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">francislholland</a> I think I understand where you are heading, however, I think that maybe officially, "race" may not exist, seeing as though we are all the same on the inside, having the same organs, and the power to think and move. But, at the same time, I think people came up with the word "race" more to decipher the difference in skin color, perhaps. I feel that this was started back in the days when people were more "racist" than they are now.</div>
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Thank you, Unabomber, in most respects.<br /><br />You say that "race does exist until all skin colors are the same." You also say that you know that "race" exists because your own skin is white.<br /><br />But, how does the fact that skin color exists prove that "race" exists? It seems to me that your proof of the existence of skin color only proves the existence of skin color.<br /><br />If I say that I know the Easter bunny exists because I have owned a bunny and I have seen many bunnies, then you might rightfully respond that the existence of bunnies does not prove the existence of Easter bunnies. That's true.<br /><br />Likewise, the existence of women not prove the existence of mermaids or Mary Poppins.<br /><br />The existence of skin color does not prove the existence of "race" anymore than the existence of tall people proves the existence of a "tall race." The existence of short people does not prove the existence of a short "race," and the existence of brown people does not prove the existence of a brown "race."<br /><br />Sorry to repeat myself, but evidence of the existence of white skin simply proves the existence of white skin.</div>
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@<a href="http://www.movieweb.com/u/mcleve02" style="border: 0px; color: red; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mcleve02</a> haha check this out... @<a href="http://www.movieweb.com/u/francislholland" style="border: 0px; color: red; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">francislholland</a> I was totally being sarcastic. However, race does exist until all skin colors are the same. Ok, according to the US Department of Energy's Human Race Genome Project, or whatever, race does not exist. However, I am white, therefore not of the "African American" "race". At least it looks like you've done your homework, and are not just some moron. Anyways, as for the review, I would explain a little more than just the "race" the movie has. You seem to be a decent writer, seeing as how that comment below is longer than your review.</div>
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I never said the movie was "racist." "Race" doesn't even exist, as the US Department of Energy's Human Genome Project has proved.<br /><br />"Race" is actually the most discussed scientific concept that has no basis whatsoever in science. And since "race" has been proved not to exist, therefore we have to accept the necessity of giving up the word "racist," since "racism" can only exist if "race," itself did.<br /><br />Now, were the people who made the movie aroused in favor of white male actors and against other skin colors when they were choosing the actors? If you look at virtually all of the comedies that you find when looking for "comedies of 2012" and "comedies of 2011," a stunning number of them simply don't have a single person who is not white in the publicity poster.<br /><br />I wouldn't ban movies such as this. But, I think that those who produced it ought to be liable for employment discrimination if it can be shown (e.g. by the fact of having an all-white cast in a country that is 35% beige and brown) that they engaged in discrimination on the basis of skin color when selecting the cast.<br /><br />The solution is not to ban the movie. The solution is to toughen laws against color-based discrimination and apartheid while absolutely refusing to see movies that have all-white casts.</div>
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@<a href="http://www.movieweb.com/u/The-Unabomber" style="border: 0px; color: red; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The-Unabomber</a> He isn't right... have you noticed how all his f*cking reviews have been based on race...<br /><br />Yes I agree this is a sh*tty movie, but it's not racist... seriously why the f*ck is everything about race with you... seriously knock it the f*ck off... People are not being racist don't bring that bullsh*t to this damn site... No one here wants to hear it!</div>
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The following comments, pasted here in no particular order, are from <b><a href="http://www.movieweb.com/movie/the-inbetweeners/REzxeVLIgcvmDz">a MovieWeb conversation</a></b> that ensued when I asserted that the movie to the left seems to be an apartheid flick, since apparent, from the movie poster, all of the main characters are white in a nation where 35% of the populace is not white. For that matter, it seems also to be misogynist, since the only people shown in full on the poster are white men, while only the women's legs are fully show, making them only incidental to the white men's experiences.<br />
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Thank you, Unabomber, in most respects.
You say that "race does exist until all skin colors are the same." You also say that you know that "race" exists because your own skin is white.
But, how does the fact that skin color exists prove that "race" exists? It seems to me that your proof of the existence of skin color only proves the existence of skin color.
If I say that I know the Easter bunny exists because I have owned a bunny and I have seen many bunnies, then you might rightfully respond that the existence of bunnies does not prove the existence of Easter bunnies. That's true.
Likewise, the existence of women not prove the existence of mermaids or Mary Poppins.
The existence of skin color does not prove the existence of "race" anymore than the existence of tall people proves the existence of a "tall race." The existence of short people does not prove the existence of a short "race," and the existence of brown people does not prove the existence of a brown "race."
Sorry to repeat myself, but evidence of the existence of white skin simply proves the existence of white skin.
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The Unabomber
@mcleve02 haha check this out... @francislholland I was totally being sarcastic. However, race does exist until all skin colors are the same. Ok, according to the US Department of Energy's Human Race Genome Project, or whatever, race does not exist. However, I am white, therefore not of the "African American" "race". At least it looks like you've done your homework, and are not just some moron. Anyways, as for the review, I would explain a little more than just the "race" the movie has. You seem to be a decent writer, seeing as how that comment below is longer than your review.
44 minutes ago
Francislholland
I never said the movie was "racist." "Race" doesn't even exist, as the US Department of Energy's Human Genome Project has proved.
"Race" is actually the most discussed scientific concept that has no basis whatsoever in science. And since "race" has been proved not to exist, therefore we have to accept the necessity of giving up the word "racist," since "racism" can only exist if "race," itself did.
Now, were the people who made the movie aroused in favor of white male actors and against other skin colors when they were choosing the actors? If you look at virtually all of the comedies that you find when looking for "comedies of 2012" and "comedies of 2011," a stunning number of them simply don't have a single person who is not white in the publicity poster.
I wouldn't ban movies such as this. But, I think that those who produced it ought to be liable for employment discrimination if it can be shown (e.g. by the fact of having an all-white cast in a country that is 35% beige and brown) that they engaged in discrimination on the basis of skin color when selecting the cast.
The solution is not to ban the movie. The solution is to toughen laws against color-based discrimination and apartheid while absolutely refusing to see movies that have all-white casts.
8 hours ago
THE JOKER
@The-Unabomber He isn't right... have you noticed how all his f*cking reviews have been based on race...
Yes I agree this is a sh*tty movie, but it's not racist... seriously why the f*ck is everything about race with you... seriously knock it the f*ck off... People are not being racist don't bring that bullsh*t to this damn site... No one here wants to hear it!
13 hours agoby @mcleve02Flag
The Unabomber
If you are right, then this movie is obviously racist and should be banned.
24 hours agoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-21130019818555953842011-10-04T21:03:00.000-07:002011-10-12T03:49:01.647-07:00The Fallacy of Race and the Menace of Extreme Color Aroused Disorder (ECAD)<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In order to understand why it is so important that we begin to accuse whites of “color-aroused antagonism” rather than “racism,” we have to examine common assumptions about “race” and “skin color” that are so deeply ingrained in our psyches that they make the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus seem just as self-evident as the NYPD and the IRS. However, </span><span lang="EN-US">the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus</span><span lang="EN-US"> are <b><i>not</i></b> real and neither is “race” or “race”, as we will see below.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The American Psychiatric Association is working on recognizing and dealing with “racism” as not merely a heavy weight carried by the victims, but also a heavy psychiatric weight and impairment carried by the psychiatrically ill offenders.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The problem with their approach is that science demands definitions of phenomena that we can all understand and agree upon, based on empirical data, even if we do not agree what causes those phenomena. Over the last sixty years, we have argued in Black Studies classes and thousands of books, as well as the editorial pages of our nation’s largest and smallest newspapers, over what constitutes “racism” and we still have achieved no general (or even intra-group) consensus. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We really should have seen this coming. The fact is that, based on the complete mapping of the human genome, which was completed in 2002, “race” simply does not exist as a matter of biology. It should have been clear to us when the human genome evidence was announced in 2002 that, in our society, “race” is the most ubiquitous “scientific” concept which has no basis whatsoever in science.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> “Skin color” exists as surely as paint colors do, and this is fact is easily proved with a variety of scientific instruments, like the Konica Minolta “SpectraMagic™NX” which “makes it easy to inspect and control colour.” Konica Minolta claims that:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">To improve general knowledge on colour basics and colour measurement technology, for beginners as well as experts, SpectraMagic™NX comes with a unique online tutorial from Konica Minolta's award winning booklet "Precise Color Communications", explaining important topics such as colour basics, chromatic systems, tolerance settings, standard illuminations and suitable measuring geometry's.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In other words, skin color like the color of everything else in our environment, is a matter amenable to scientific study. To those who say that “race is real,” I say, ‘Yes, skin color and relationships based on skin color are real.’ But, biological “race” is <i>not</i> real, as the following irrefutable scientific evidence has shown. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According to the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><span lang="EN-US">U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><span lang="EN-US">Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Human Genome Program</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. There also is no genetic basis for divisions of human ethnicity. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other."</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In other words, the Human Genome Project has proven that, as a matter of scientific fact, that which we call "race" does not exist as a matter of biology, and so all references to "race" are references to a fallacy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> There is no genetic data that all Black people have and no white people have, and there is likewise no genetic coding that all white people have but which no Black people have. There is no reliable and meaningful genetic difference between whites, Blacks and others that would support the belief that there are separate species or subspecies of human beings. Although it seemed simple back in 1950 to conflate skin color with “race”, there simply is no way to predict all or most of the differences that will be found in our genes based on our skin color.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The truth is that the term “race” was invented as a propaganda tool by white imperialist slave traders some 400 years ago, and Blacks have “internalized the oppressor” by accepting that we are from a different (and necessarily lesser) species than white people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Let us be honest and logical: Once you have convinced white and Black people that we are from different species, will it ever be possible for either whites or Blacks to believe that these species are “separate but equal”? Of you cannot! Once you concede that you are from a different species than whites, you have given them and yourself the pseudo-genetic club with which you will eternally be beaten over the head and in the groin and breasts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We see it every day in the United States when newspapers demand to know whether a Black man’s “race” will prevent him from winning the Republican presidential nomination “race.” When you frame the question that way, it does seem entirely unlikely that white Republicans will vote for someone from a different species or subspecies to be president of the United States. We all believe that humans are more important than other species. However, not all of us agree that Blacks are part of the same human species as whites, and so our relative importance and potential accomplishments are always in doubt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Will his “race” hurt his “race,” and will his “race” support his “race?” His race will be a key factor in the race if they vote in the Republican race, says race expert, Professor Rayce Race. Yes, it also becomes apparent how ridiculously confusing it is to use the same word, “race,” to mean three different things in one paragraph. These term “race” cannot be disambiguated from the term “race,” because these words have been used interchangeably and overlapping throughout sixty years of arguments about these two concepts that are both referred to by the same name. When we insist on rampant and often intentional ambiguity, we ought not be surprised when we cannot agree with others, or among ourselves, about the most basic aspects of the question at hand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Look at the question from a linguistic standpoint. A “social<u>ist</u>” is someone who believes in and promotes the social ownership, use of and benefit from property. A “commun<u>ist</u>” is someone who believes in and promotes the belief in the value of commun<u>ism</u>. Likewise, a “rac<u>ist</u>” is someone who believes in and promotes the belief in “race.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">That last group includes a lot of whites, but it also includes at least half of the Black people who blog and write newspaper articles. They prefer to say that someone is from the “Black race” rather than state the obvious: that person whose skin is brown is from the ‘Black skin color group.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Race” as a biological belief system is inherently suspect. If the cat and dog species are segregated at the local dog pound, then why should the distinct Black and white species (races) be mixed, to be educated and worship together. The natural conclusion to draw from a belief in separate species or subspecies based on skin color, is that each of these groups has distinct needs and capacities that should form the basis of segregation and discrimination. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cats get littler cages and Blacks typically work for significantly less wages, even when we perform the same functions as whites. When we are treated differently because of our so-called “race,” it is simply the natural consequence of whites’ and Blacks’ belief that we are substantially genetically different, and surely less deserving than the self-serving white majority group that divides the American pie and all-too-often leaves us only the crumbs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And yet recent genetic science gives us every reason to abandon the belief that we are from separate and distinct species. </span><b><a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html"><span lang="EN-US">"An article called 'Race' and the Human Genome", published at Nature.Com in the "Nature Genetics,"</span></a></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> section says:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">"With very rare exceptions, all of us in the US are immigrants. We bring with us a subset of genes from our homelands, and for many Americans, often first-generation but more commonly second-generation, the plural noun 'homelands' is appropriate. From this perspective, the most immediately obvious characteristic of 'race' is that describing most of us as Caucasian, Asian or African is far too simple. Despite attempts by the US Census Bureau to expand its definitions, the term 'race' does not describe most of us with the subtlety and complexity required to capture and appreciate our genetic diversity. Unfortunately, this oversimplification has had many tragic effects. Therefore, we need to start with the science . . . "</span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Black studies professors, and two generations of their students, will now stand forth in near-unison to insist that although “race” does not exist, it is still essential that we understand “race” and teach It to others if we are to understand American society and fight for equality. Does anyone else perceive a contradiction here?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of course, we all understand that “race” is a term of art within the social sciences, referring to power relationships, subjugation and marginalization. And so, say the academics, without the word “race”, it would be impossible for us to discuss power relationships in society that are based on skin color. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to ask them, ‘Why can’t we simply call those relationships “power relationships in society based on skin color,” without dragging in the term ‘race,” which has a pre-existing definition that is based on white supremacist propaganda alone? It is really impossible to discuss the subjugation of Blacks without using the term “race”? Why not just say, “The subjugation of Blacks by whites based on skin color and power”?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As a matter of simple fairness, we have to acknowledge that white supremacists began to use the word “race” about four hundred years before Black sociology professors began to use the same word to mean something entirely different. There is no practical way to disambiguate the concept of “race” from the concept of “race.” Whenever you use the word ”race”, you may be referring to a sociological concept or a biological concept, or both, but there is no way for those who hear you using the word to understand whether you are referring to the 400 year-old definition, the sixty year-old definition, or both at once.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I have offered a relatively simple solution. When we are profiled while driving, the police cannot see our DNA and compare it to that of whites. What they see is our skin color, and their decisions to pursue us based on our skin color is skin color-aroused discrimination and injustice. It has nothing whatsoever to do with 400 year old definitions of “race.” It is based on the color spectrum and the difference between where we and whites are in that spectrum as distinguished by the color of our skin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a day when we would be” judged by the content of our character rather than the COLOR of our skin.” Dr. King wrote his speeches beforehand and knew the power of words. He said “the color of our skin” because that particular phrasing shows how petty and idiotic it is to discriminate on the basis of skin color. Had he used the word “race” instead, we would have been back to talking about the separation of cats and dogs at the animal shelter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is actually a very, very important place to use terms that say precisely and only what we mean. If I say that someone has discriminated against me “on the basis of my race”, I am implicitly conceding that I am from a separate race/subspecies that forms the basis of the discrimination. In so doing, I compound the problem by conceding that Joe and I are from different subspecies, who CAN perhaps be treated differently based on our profound species-based differences.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The legal profession has finessed this problem successfully with the concept of “imputed race.” Even though I don’t have a “race” that is distinct from that of my white co-workers, still my supervisor might im-put a race on me and then treat me accordingly. Here is an example of imputed race: A white man calls regarding a job advertisement, but he is told the job is filled because the person on the other end of the line BELIEVES that the white man is Black, based on his street address, the neighborhood he lives in, and his speech patterns. Likewise, I am treated differently from others who have brown skin because whites cannot distinguish my speech from that of other whites and so they impute participation in the white skin color group (NOT “RACE”) to me. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When we understand that biological “race” simply does not exist, then we begin to look for language and terms that communicate the discrimination we face in our everyday lives. The fact is that when we see our own skin color and perceive the skin color of others, we have been carefully trained to call upon color-aroused ideation, which leads to color-aroused emotion, and all too frequently leads to color-aroused behavior. People whose minds work this way to an extent that they are severely impaired in one or more key areas of their lives suffer from Extreme Color Aroused Disorder.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As I began my book on this topic, I discussed it with a friend who has white skin here in Brazil. She told me the story of another friend whose father disowned her because he discovered that she had a Black boyfriend. Rather than be intimidated by her father’s color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior, the white woman moved in with her brown-skinned boyfriend as soon as they arrived at the same college. The white father was livid. When the young white woman and her Black spouse married and had a child, the white father did not go to the wedding and did not speak to his daughter for ten years . . . until he was diagnosed with cancer, his wife had died, and he had no one to take care of him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">At that point, the white father was compelled to accept the financial and personal help of his brown son-in-law. They never discussed the issue that had kept them separated for a decade. Instead , they discussed their common interests in soccer. When the white-skinned father saw his grandchild for the first time, he was overcome with emotion and cried as he held her. In those moments, he clearly saw how his Extreme Color Aroused Disorder had cheated him out of his daughter and his granddaughter for a decade, which was time that could never be recovered in the time the white father had left.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You will never hear the public discuss benign, moderate and severe racism, because racism is not a scientific field of inquiry, like stage four cancer. Racism, we believe, is so awful that it is always at its worst, and so we refuse even to admit the idea that some cases, like the one above, are worse than others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When we discuss color-aroused disorder, we do make reference to its severity, be it benign, moderate or severe. Color Aroused Disorder is severe when it causes an individual to, for example:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Confront strangers on the street on the basis of their skin color, risking bodily harm to themselves or criminal charges against themselves;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Engage in any color-aroused criminal activity that risks loss of social status, liberty, family contacts, income and professional maintenance and advancement;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Causes a family member to reject other family members based on their interactions with people of a different skin color;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">lose a job because of color-aroused antagonism toward co-workers, supervisors and/or those one supervises;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Loose opportunities to find a suitable marital partner because of color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior, often reinforced by pressure from family, social group and others.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">causes an employer to be subject to civil fines as a result of a worker participation in “noose-play,” color-associated epithets, and causes a hostile work environment</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">undercutting other employees in a manner that leads to decreased productivity;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Shoot co-workers because they interact without regard to skin color differences;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Be referred to “sensitivity training” because of on-the-job color-aroused antagonism toward others.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The list of ways to express Extreme Color Aroused Disorder is very long, especially compared to the paucity of psychiatric services designed to treat the disorder. Doug Williams was a white-skinned Lockheed employee with a years-long history of antagonizing both white and brown-skinned employees, because he didn’t believe the “races” should mix. Here it is clear that part of the ideation that led to his illness was the belief that distinct races existed in the first place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After years of treating Doug Williams’ on-the-job color-aroused harassment of others as a mild form of color arousal, Lockheed ordered Doug Williams to participate in a sensitivity training in which he would be in close quarters with Blacks and whites from his workplace. A psychiatrist have been brought in to screen Doug for color-aroused disorder. Had a competent psychiatrist been involved, the doctor would quickly have realized that Doug Williams was already far too sensitive to his and others’ skin colors in his environment. Additional “sensitivity” would be reckless and dangerous, because it could push Doug over the edge, unless it was carried out in a facility where Mr, Williams would not pose a safety risk to himself and others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Instead, Lockheed assumed that ‘all racism is the same.’ They apparently did not consult a competent color-aroused disorder specialist psychiatrist about Doug’s color-aroused ideation (e.g. pro-segregation), and emotion (fury), and behavior (physically confronting co-workers about heterochromatic friendships).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Doug Williams entered the training session, returned to his car for his gun, and shot several co-workers, including some with white skin and some with brown skin. Then Doug turned the weapon upon himself and committed suicide.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Extreme Color Aroused Disorder is the most dangerous both to the sufferer and to those around him. The two cases recounted above should make it clear that color-aroused disorder is not a disorder in which there is a culprit and a victim. An individual with Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder sometimes does as much harm to himself—professionally and personally—as he does to those whom he targets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">People with Extreme Color Aroused Disorder share many of the symptoms of people with other psychiatric illnesses, such as:</span></div><ul><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">constant alertness to color-arousing stimuli in the environment</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">constant stress over the “risk” that Blacks will advance, combined sometimes with the ideation that Blacks advancement is degrades white people;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Uncontrolled anger and fury that leads to crimes, including hate crimes, that jeopardize the victim’s liberty;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Inability to advance in a profession, e.g. politics, because past expressions of color-aroused hatred and disrespect make the individual clearly unfit for public office;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">sociopathic lack of empathy for others based on skin color;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Inability to see their own behavior as the source of their thinking, feeling and behavioral problems associated with skin color.</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sixty years after we began talking about “racism,” we are still debating whether a Black person can be “racist.” Instead, we should be asking whether a Black person’s Extreme Color Aroused Disorder can render Black person’s life ineffective and unmanageable. When I told my niece I was writing a book on this subject, she introduced me to a Black woman whose situation provided the answer quite clearly. The woman explained that she was extremely sensitive to observing interactions between Black men and white women.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">She said that:</span></div><ul><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Black men should go out with Black women;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">It was a personal put –down to her when she saw a Black man who had chosen a white woman instead;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">When she went to clubs, she was hyper-sensitive and hyper-vigilant to heterochromatic couples involving a Black man and a white woman;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">When she saw such couples, even though they were strangers, she felt compelled to confront the white woman and the Black man, which often lead to fights that could get her arrested, and thereby make it impossible for her to go to work;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">The issue came to dominate her life to the extent that she fought in the family home with her brown-skinned brother about his white girlfriend, and this caused a dramatic inability for her to continue her otherwise close relationship with her own brother;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">She felt low self-esteem because she was not chosen by Black men;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Her life was in a downward spiral in which she could not control her behavior toward heterochromatic couples in public, she could not form or maintain a relationship with a Black man, and she felt lousy about her own weight and her personhood.</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In this case, issues of skin color had come to dominate her life to a degree that she was imminently at risk of being arrested for her confrontations with strangers in bars and clubs. Yes, she and people like her sometimes cause pervasive hardship for couples who do not share a skin color. But, the obsession with this issue—the ideation, emotion and behavior—were robbing this Black woman of the quality of her own life. She needed urgent psychiatric help from a competent, knowledgeable and experienced Color Arousal Disorder professional in order to:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">make herself safe from potentially dangerous confrontations, and </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">learn to value herself regardless of what choices some Black men make, and</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Forgive her brother for having a white girlfriend, if only to continue to have a relationship with her brother, whom she valued and with whom she lived in harmony, until he dated a white woman.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Debate this endlessly as a political issue, if you must, but also acknowledge that it can become a fundamental psychiatric issue, based on our awareness of our own skin color and our perception of the skin colors of others. There are far too many examples of Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder leading to ruthless and notorious murders for us to continue endlessly talking about “racism” without acknowledging the daily toll that Extreme Color Aroused Disorder takes on Blacks, whites and the American “family.” </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-62836310420363588182011-10-03T21:25:00.000-07:002011-10-03T21:44:22.100-07:00School Makes Black Football Prodigy Victim of His Success by Banning Him from Showing Overwhelming Touchdown ProwessWhite Scheme to Discourage Africans from Running in White CountriesThe <a href="http://newsone.com/entertainment/sports-entertainment/casey-gane-mccalla/11-year-old-football-prodigy-banned-from-scoring-touchdowns/"><b>News One for Black America</b></a> blog, which is part of the Black Planet Universe, reports that:<br />
<blockquote><b>An eleven-year-old [Black] football prodigy from Arkansas [named Demias Jimerson]</b> <b>has been banned from scoring touchdowns due to his dominance on the field.</b></blockquote>This happened in Arkansas, where the players of the opposing white teams were prevented from winning because this Black player is so much faster and better than they are.<br />
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It seems to me that rather than pulling the amazing Black quarterback from the football court (or whatever it's called), they should endeavor to teach the other teams better defense. If they did that, they might even discover that a white football player was able to learn to be so effective at defense that the eleven year-old Black runner couldn't get to the other end of the football field.<br />
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Instead of asking white players to rise to the occasion, the school takes the really outstanding player out, so that the white students can remain mediocre and win anyway. The Black student is not larger or brawnier than the rest of the students. He seems just to be incredibly faster and super at positioning himself to catch and run with the ball. There has to be something useful the white opponents could learn by trying to stay competitive.<br />
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Sometimes it happens that Blacks just win and win and win, unstoppably. The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/18/london-marathon-kenyans-african-runner"><b>UK Guardian reports:</b></a><br />
<blockquote><b>London witnessed another swashbuckling performance by Kenya's incredible marathon runners on Sunday. Kenyan athletes finished in the top three places in the men's race (despite their biggest star, Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru, pulling out just weeks before the race), and also first and third in the women's race.</b> </blockquote><blockquote><b>It began as a trickle – when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%20Joseph_Nzau" title="Wikipedia: Joseph Nzau">Joseph Nzau</a> won the Chicago marathon in 1983 – grew into a river, and has now become a roaring, unstoppable torrent. Last autumn, out of 42 elite men's marathons, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/9457947.stm" title="BBC: London Marathon 2011: Africa's domination">38 were won by Kenyans and four by Ethiopians</a>.</b><br />
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<b>The spring marathon season has so far been an even more dominant story, with Kenyans winning the men's and women's prizes in virtually all of the big races so far, from Paris to Rotterdam, London to Dubai.</b></blockquote><br />
In related news from Holland, race organizers are offering Africans only 1% of what a Dutch winner would win if he won the race, in an attempt to discourage perennial-winner Africans from racing and winning. <a href="http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/04/utrecht_uses_100_trick_to_disc.php"><b>Dutch News reports</b></a> that:<br />
<blockquote><b>The organisers of the Utrecht marathon are offering prize money of just €100 to Kenyan nationals if they win the event, but a Dutch winner will get €10,000, the <a href="http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2698/Sport/article/detail/1872521/2011/04/09/Marathon-van-Utrecht-weert-Kenianen.dhtml">Volkskrant</a> reports on Saturday. </b></blockquote><blockquote><b>The aim is to discourage Kenyans from taking part in the 42 km race, nicknamed the Dutch Battle, on April 25, the organisers say.</b><br />
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<b>Last year Kenyan runners won the Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Enschede and Leiden marathons. The Utrecht race has been won by a Kenyan for the past four years and the organisers hope to give top Dutch athletes a chance to win this year.</b><br />
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<b>Event director Louran van Keulen told the paper the prize money trick had been worked out with the help of a lawyer. Banning Kenyans outright would break discrimination laws but discouraging them from taking part is legal, Van Keulen said.</b><br />
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<b>The race <a href="http://www.athletic.nl/2011/nl/">website</a> does not mention the prize differences but says ‘only athletes who have been invited to take part are eligible for big money prizes’.</b><br />
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<b>According to television programme EenVandaag, only people with a Dutch passport have been invited to take part in the race. </b></blockquote>This is really insulting to the Dutch, effectively conceding that there is no human way that a Dutch person can learn to run as fast as an African. That's color-aroused, but white people often don't care what they have to do to tip the scales in their favor, when they can't win on merit alone. It would be better for Dutch self-esteem if the trained in Africa and learned to run as Kenyans and Ethiopians do.<br />
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Back in Arkansas, all of the students would learn something about humility by watching this prodigy,<b> Demias Jimerson</b>, run past them until he's practically out of sight. It would teach kids that there are times when you simply are not going to win because there is someone dramatically better than you. It would teach the losing kids to try to emulate the Black winner. And it would teach the losing kids to brainstorm and look for a strategy or strategies that neutralized the speed of the little Black prodigy. Instead of taking the Black kid off of the field, the white students should get up at six in the morning and learn to run faster or block and tackle better.<br />
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Taking this kid off the field is like taking Tiger Woods out of golf in order to give white players a chance to win. Instead, the right model is the one white women tennis players evolved to beat Venus and Serena Williams. Since the Williams sisters served approximately 33% faster than the white women in the sport, the white women were compelled to learn to be stronger and put more strength into their serves. Venus and Serena Williams made all players play harder, regardless of their skin color, if they wanted to have any chance at winning the big trophies.<br />
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In this little town in Arkansas, the coaches of the losing teams simply need to teach their players to run faster and block better, or accept perpetual losses when they are perpetual losers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-57201654355655243082011-10-02T23:08:00.000-07:002011-10-02T23:08:34.197-07:00Presidential Candidate Rick Perry's Color-Aroused Dysfunction<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div>It's a shame, but there's not much difference between naming a forest "N-head" and naming a Washington football team, "The Redskins." The differences between these behaviors in these two circumstances are too small to be worth trying to parse and describe.<br />
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However, American society is much more attuned to the fact that using the "N" word is facially color-aroused and constitutes an act of color-aroused animosity, when white people use it, and particularly when they use it blithely, as if they think no one (important enough to be considered) will be offended by it.<br />
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It seems clear <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/10/02/2011-10-02_rick_perry_slams_report_on_texas_hunting_camps_racist_name_herman_cain_calls_it_.html"><b>from the reporting</b></a> that for a number of years Governor Perry told his friends and supporters, "Let's meet up at "N-head." This is an example of "extreme color-aroused disorder" (ECAD). You can see that it is by the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rick-perry-deflects-scrutiny-over-texas-hunting-camp-is-blasted-by-herman-cain/2011/10/02/gIQAOrqMGL_story.html"><b>amount of blowback he's now receiving</b></a> and the risk that it could end his political career, as the maccaca (sp?) epithet ended Goerge Allen(sp?)'s senatorial aspirations and perhaps his public political career.<br />
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Two of the problems with the word and use of the term "racism" are that:<br />
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(1) we immediately start asking whether a particular act constitutes "racism," which reflects our lack of a clear and commonly understood definition of "racism", and <br />
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(2) once we decide that an act constitutes "racism," then we feel obliged to take yet another step and decide if someone "is" a "racist."<br />
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If an act or acts of color-aroused antagonism end your political career then that is a strong indication that the act or acts of color-aroused antagonism are "severe" in nature.<br />
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If you lose your job because of an act or acts of color-aroused antagonism, then that, too, is an indication that the color-aroused antagonism is "severe" enough to be affecting your career in a very negative way.<br />
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We should decide what constitutes "severe" color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior disorder by examining the circumstances to determine the degree to which the symptoms are impairing the individual in important areas of life, e.g. public perception, social standing, economic standing, work history and present work efforts, and political careers.<br />
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By that standard, it's clear that Governor Perry presently has a difficulty with color-aroused antagonism (whether he knows it or not). If the extreme behavior continues for six months or more then his color-aroused antagonism's extreme nature render him diagnosable with Extreme Color Aroused Disorder (ECAD). Just because he has this disorder today does not mean that he will still have it six months or a year from now, which will further frustrate those who want to declare others to be "racists" and then, once having so branded them, to continually fight or dismiss them because of what they once were and possibly, but not necessarily, continue to be.<br />
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Contrary to what many people believe, there really is nothing wrong with bringing the scientific process into the area once called "racism." It doesn't hurt us to look at things in a consistently methodical and objective way.<br />
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Admittedly, one of the theoretical difficulties with the diagnosis of Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder it that it depends upon subjective circumstances. One could argue that being involved in the slave trade was not Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder because it actually helped white people to build their wealth and standing in their communities and internationally. To that, I would respond that engaging in the slave trade involved color-aroused animosity and antagonism, even though the white social reference group most important to other whites approved of the practices at the time at the time. Antagonism is antagonism regardless of the times.<br />
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Some people don't want the scientific method mixed with their "racism" accusations. It is true that many people WANT to be carried along by their unguided emotions and entirely subjective opinions. These people should not be in a position to judge what constitutes Extreme Color Aroused Disorder (ECAD). Anti-scientific people, like those who continue to rely on the concepts and epithets of "racism" and "racist" respectively simply lack the intellectual rigor and discipline that is required to participate usefully in any discussion of Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder (ECAD).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-62245766962034968112011-09-10T19:45:00.000-07:002011-09-10T21:20:08.841-07:00Forensic Psychology Writer Seeks to Publish Article on Blacks and ViolenceAMJCA has received an offer and request from Allison Gamble, of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://forensicpsychology.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">forensicpsychology.net,</a> </span>to write and publish here an article discussing:<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">why is there so much violence in the black community? The article will include: statistics on crime in impoverished neighborhoods, explain why violence is more prevalent, and explain how Its not just because one race is more violent than another but because the way people are oppressed and through oppression comes coping mechanisms to get through life.</span></b></blockquote>This Journal's response is as follows (but is subject to public comment from all quarters):<br />
<blockquote>Allison:<br />
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I believe that one of the reasons there is so much crime in some Black communities is that whites hate Blacks and Blacks have turned that anger inward. Take, for example, your use of the word "race." What do you mean when you use the word "race"? Are you suggesting that people with white skin and people with brown skin are from different species? If you are, then I think that insults Blacks more than the "N" word does. </blockquote><blockquote>Whether it comes from Black or white people, I believe the assertion that "race" exists at all is a profound insult to Blacks that can only be based in malice or ignorance. I, quite frankly, am sick and tired of the "R" word. It is, in my opinion anachronistic and anti-science.<br />
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If you would like to write an article explaining why you still use the "R" word, even though the <b><a href="allison:%20%20I%20believe%20that%20one%20of%20the%20reasons%20there%20is%20so%20much%20crime%20in%20some%20Black%20communities%20is%20that%20whites%20hate%20Blacks%20and%20Blacks%20have%20turned%20anger%20inward.%20%20Take,%20for%20example,%20your%20use%20of%20the%20word%20%22race.%22%20%20What%20do%20you%20mean%20when%20you%20use%20the%20word%20%22race%22?%20%20Are%20you%20suggesting%20that%20people%20with%20white%20skin%20and%20people%20with%20brown%20skin%20are%20from%20different%20species?%20%20If%20you%20are,%20then%20I%20think%20that%20insults%20Blacks%20more%20than%20the%20%22N%22%20word%20does.%20%20%20I%27m%20sick%20and%20tired%20of%20the%20%22R%22%20word.%20%20It%27s%20anachronistic%20and%20anti-science.%20%20If%20you%20would%20like%20to%20write%20an%20article%20explaining%20why%20you%20still%20use%20the%20%22R%22%20word,%20even%20though%20the%20US%20Government%27s%20Human%20Genome%20Project%20has%20declared%20conclusively%20that%20simply%20does%20NOT%20exist,%20then%20I%20would%20be%20very%20interested%20in%20reading%20and%20publishing%20your%20article%20on%20that%20topic.%20%20I%20think%20we%20all%20will%20learn%20something%20no%20matter%20what%20you%20say%20about%20what%20you%20mean%20when%20you%20use%20the%20%22R%22%20word.%20%20Are%20you%20talking%20about%20the%20Black%20%22skin%20color%20group%22%20when%20you%20say%20%22race,%22%20or%20are%20you%20asserting%20that%20we%20are%20from%20a%20different%20species?%20%20Having%20said%20that,%20if%20you%20want%20to%20write%20about%20Black%20people%20and%20crime,%20and%20you%20demonstrate%20that%20you%20have%20something%20new%20and%20original%20to%20bring%20to%20the%20topic,%20then%20I%27ll%20gladly%20publish%20what%20you%20write.%20%20Francis%20">US Government's Human Genome Project</a></b> has declared conclusively that "race" simply does NOT exist, then I would be very interested in reading and publishing your article on that topic. I think we all will learn something, no matter what you say about what you mean when you use the "R" word.<br />
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When you use the "R" word, are you talking about the Black "skin color group" or are you asserting that we are from a different species? If you are not asserting that we are from a different species, then why do you use the word "race"?<br />
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Having said that, if you want to write about Black people and crime, and you demonstrate that you have something new and original to bring to the topic, then I'll gladly publish what you write. I would just request that you either define "race" as a factor in your research or find a way to describe what you mean to say without asserting that I and other people with brown skin belong to a species that is separate and distinct from that comprising the white skin-color-group.</blockquote><blockquote>If you insist that you cannot discuss this topic without using the word and the concept of "race," then I insist that you explain and support your definition of the "R" word in light of the findings of the <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>US Government's Human Genome Project</b></a> and the following articles:</blockquote><blockquote><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 470px;"><tbody>
<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><span class="articletitle">'Race' and the human genome</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS1 - S2</b></span><br />
<span class="author">Ari Patrinos</span><br />
<span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng2150</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng2150.pdf">PDF (103K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td rowspan="2" valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ed"></a><span class="categ_small">Editorial</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><img alt="" height="3" src="http://www.nature.com/ng/images/arrow_black_up.gif" width="5" /> <a class="top" href="http://www.nature.com/index.html?file=/ng/journal/v36/n11s/index.html#top">Top</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng2151"></a><span class="articletitle">The unexamined population</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>pS3</b></span><br />
<span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng2151</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2151.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng2151.pdf">PDF (50K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td rowspan="2" valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="cy"></a><span class="categ_small">Commentaries</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><img alt="" height="3" src="http://www.nature.com/ng/images/arrow_black_up.gif" width="5" /> <a class="top" href="http://www.nature.com/index.html?file=/ng/journal/v36/n11s/index.html#top">Top</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng1454"></a><span class="articletitle">Changing the paradigm from 'race' to human genome variation</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS5 - S7</b></span><br />
<span class="author">Charmaine D M Royal & Georgia M Dunston</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1454</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1454.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1454.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1454.pdf">PDF (95K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng1594"></a><span class="articletitle">Forensic genetics and ethical, legal and social implications beyond the clinic</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS8 - S12</b></span><br />
<span class="author">Mildred K Cho & Pamela Sankar</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1594</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1594.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1594.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1594.pdf">PDF (104K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng1436"></a><span class="articletitle">What we do and don't know about 'race', 'ethnicity', genetics and health at the dawn of the genome era</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS13 - S15</b></span><br />
<span class="author">Francis S Collins</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1436</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1436.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1436.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1436.pdf">PDF (330K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng1455"></a><span class="articletitle">Conceptualizing human variation</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS17 - S20</b></span><br />
<span class="author">S O Y Keita, R A Kittles, C D M Royal, G E Bonney, P Furbert-Harris, G M Dunston & C N Rotimi</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1455</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1455.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1455.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf">PDF (102K) </a></td></tr>
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<span class="author">Sarah A Tishkoff & Kenneth K Kidd</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1438</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1438.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1438.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1438.pdf">PDF (270K) </a></td></tr>
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<span class="author">Lynn B Jorde & Stephen P Wooding</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1435</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1435.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1435.pdf">PDF (850K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng1437"></a><span class="articletitle">Will tomorrow's medicines work for everyone?</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS34 - S42</b></span><br />
<span class="author">Sarah K Tate & David B Goldstein</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1437</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1437.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1437.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1437.pdf">PDF (161K) </a></td></tr>
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<span class="author">Charles N Rotimi</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1439</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1439.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1439.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1439.pdf">PDF (118K) </a></td></tr>
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<span class="author">Joanna L Mountain & Neil Risch</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1456</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1456.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1456.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1456.pdf">PDF (226K) </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" name="ng1440"></a><span class="articletitle">Implications of correlations between skin color and genetic ancestry for biomedical research</span> <span class="pagenum"><b>ppS54 - S60</b></span><br />
<span class="author">E J Parra, R A Kittles & M D Shriver</span><br />
<span class="doi">Published online: 26 October 2004</span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="doi">doi:10.1038/ng1440</span><a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1440.html">Abstract</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1440.html">Full text</a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1440.pdf">PDF (1,666K) </a> <span class="divider">|</span> <a class="contentslink" href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/suppinfo/ng1440_S1.html">Supplementary Information</a></td></tr>
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(1) It won't show up in Brazilian movie theatres anytime soon;<br />
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(2) Brazilian television is full of all-white 70-member casts in which one of only two Black actors happens to be a maid. I'm tired of white-centric movies. They almost always show color-aroused discrimination against Blacks in casting (no Blacks in a movie about New York?) and so they are offensive as well as boring.<br />
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I'm tired of seeing Black women as maids and Black men "Driving Miss Daisy (sp?)," and I'm not going to encourage Hollywood or Brazilian television by watching that crap.<br />
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As you know, I don't use the word "racist" because it comes from the word "race," and "race" doesn't exist as a matter of science. I prefer the terms "color-aroused antagonism" and "color-aroused marginalization" and "color-aroused discrimination in hiring" because these terms are based on the scientific fact of the existence of skin color. We all agree that skin color DOES exist, although we may disagree on its meaning and import in our societies <br />
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The word "racist" is too facile, too easy, too general. The term "Color-aroused" forces you to think about what negative behavior is based on the color arousal, such as "discrimination" or "humiliation," or both and more. This teaches us to be more precise and teaches our readers (including our children) the various forms that color-arousal takes and the harms that color-arousal creates, like color-aroused "red-lining" in the housing market, and color-aroused loan denials and/or higher interest rates. <br />
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Whites are right to be sick of hearing the word "racism," because it is so general and ambiguous as to be nearly meaningless and always semantically wrong.<br />
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"Social-<b>ism</b>" is the belief in and propagation of joint societal social control and use of property, right? So, logically "rac-<b>ism</b>" is the belief in "race" and the propagation of arrangements based on that belief. If we believe that racism exists then we must believe that race exists, and if we believe that "race" exists, then we are "racists."<br />
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If YOU or I say that two people are of different "races," then doesn't that make us "racists?" Of course it does, because we are implicitly saying and explicitly implying that we believe in and propagate the belief in the existence of "races."<br />
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Since we are propagating the belief in the existence of races, we really ought to ask ourselves, 'Do we believe there are separate biological "races"?'<br />
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If so, then let's just acknowledge that, like the <b><a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront">Stormfront</a></b> white supremacist blog, we are "racists." We believe that skin color means "race" and the words can be used interchangeably. <br />
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Now, someone will stand forth indignantly and insist that "racism" exists, and it does. "Racism" is a compendium of beliefs and behaviors based on the belief in the existence of "race." Using the word "racism" is one of the behaviors based on the belief in the existence of separate "races." <br />
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How can you discriminate against others on the basis of "race" if "race" itself does not exist? The answer is that you can discriminate against others on the basis of "imputed race." Race does not exist, but others im-<b>"put"-</b>e a racial tag on you and then treat you accordingly.<br />
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The term "racism" also has another meaning: "color-aroused subjugation and marginalization." But this certainly is confusing to use one word to denote two different and contradictory beliefs systems. Why not say what we mean, instead of using the same word that white supremacists at the <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront"><b>Stormfront blog</b></a> use, while hoping that our readers, Black and white, will understand the difference? <br />
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Because Stormfront uses the word "race" in a way that predates our sociology and power-based usage by about 400 years, we are compelled to disambiguate by leaving the words "race" and "racism" to the white supremacists. They used those words first and they have a preexisting claim on them.<br />
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As such, it simply far too easy to confuse our readers when we use the same word to mean something entirely different. It's like using the word "sugar" to mean both and "sugar" and "salt." That linguistic practice would cause confusion, chaos and ruined food in the kitchen, just as it presently causes confusion, chaos and ruined interactions in our society, between people of different skin colors and between people of the same skin colors.<br />
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Such confusion is to be expected when one root word has been given different and largely contradictory meanings. Our human ability to vocalize sounds and words is far too great for us to allow ourselves be bogged down, and perpetuate confusion, by using one vocalization to mean two different and contradictory things.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-46508756323244003892011-09-02T16:47:00.000-07:002011-09-02T17:02:42.854-07:00SCLC and Tarrant County, TX Chastized for Use of the "R" WordIn FORT WORTH, TEXAS, "The Southern Christian Leadership Conference cordially invite leaders to lunch with Sister Joyce James, Associate Deputy Executive Commissioner for the Center for Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities at the Texas Health and Human Service Commission." The invitation to the meeting asks the question, "Can We Undo Racism?" The meeting is also intended to "increase efforts to improve racial disproportionality in Texas."<br />
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One way to overcome "racism" in Texas is by no longer using a word that insinuates that whites and Blacks and Latinos are from separate and different "races." We are not from separate "races." We are all members of the same human species. <br />
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Therefore it is not possible for people to discriminate against us on the basis of "race" because "race," itself, as a matter of genomic science, simply does not exist, according to the <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml" target="_blank"><b>US Department of Energy's Human Genome Project.</b></a><br />
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Anti-discrimination laws have long recognized that we can be discriminated against on the basis of "imputed race. In these cases, people believe the victim is of another race when, in fact, all humans are from the same species. It is insulting to use vocabulary that implies otherwise.<br />
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Skin color and skin color groups obviously exist and have been the basis for discrimination and the deprivation of rights and liberty. But differences in skin color do not create separate "races" in the realm of biology. It is time we allowed the anachronistic and humiliating word "race" fall into the garbage bin of historical misconceptions. Ironically, the more you use the word "racism," the more you lend support to the unscientific and offensive belief that we are from separate "races."<br />
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There are no separate "races." When we accept that we are all of the same species, then we will be intellectually much closer to overcoming discrimination on the basis of skin color and skin color group. <br />
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Unquestionably, the ubiquitous use of the terms "race" and "racism" and "racist" underscore and lend credence to the preposterous idea that separate races ever existed in the first place. The belief that there are separate "races" helps to perpetuate systemic and individual color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior. <br />
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In 2008, we did not elect a President of a different "race." We did not elect a "biracial" President. We elected a president of a different skin color when compared to the skin color of the Presidents who precede him. We elected a president whose parents were a <u>hetero-chromatic</u> couple, of different skin colors. Where the word "race" tries to separate us into different species, with no basis in science, the alternative term <u>"skin color"</u> acknowledges the obvious. America and the entire world have populations with a broad array of skin colors. But, "race" does not exist on the basis of skin color or on any other basis. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-54320933398509179252011-08-29T16:51:00.001-07:002011-08-29T16:56:32.343-07:00Is the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Excluding HBCU’s From Research?<a href="http://atlantapost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/african-american-research.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-70388" height="250" src="http://atlantapost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/african-american-research-358x278.jpg" title="african american research" width="322" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-american-diabetes-association.html"><b>by L.N. Rock</b></a><br />
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According to the American Diabetes Association, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes as 3.7 million or 14.7 percent of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes. In addition:<br />
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-African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites<br />
-25 percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.<br />
-1 in 4 African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.<br />
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The American Diabetes Association (the Association) is a not-for-profit voluntary health agency that works to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. In October 1994, the Association’s Board of Directors established the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc. (the Foundation), as a subsidiary of the Association. The objective of the Foundation is to fund diabetes-related research leading to the prevention and cure of diabetes, the prevention and cure of the complications of diabetes, and new and improved therapies for individuals affected by diabetes.<br />
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Get this, the Foundation is exempt from income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and charitable contributions to the Foundation qualify for charitable tax deductions as described in the code. The Foundation has been classified as an organization that is not a private foundation under Section 509(a) of the code. Even though they appear to have a bias against HBCU’s and black researchers. More on this later…<br />
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Research grants awarded by the Foundation generally extend over a period of one to three years, subject to renewal on an annual basis.<br />
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Upon investigation and review of the financial reports and records, this writer has found that Historically Black Colleges and Universities have been totally left out of the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc ward process as selected grantees.<br />
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Compared to the general population, African American researchers and HBCU’s are not receiving grant research dollars from the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation.<br />
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As an example, the Foundation provided over $33 million in research grants in 2010 without one gong to a HBCU. If one looks at their annual reports for ADA 2009 Research Foundation Financials and 2009 IRS Form 990 you will see the same challenge in the 2008 IRS Form 990, (check out the grantee database for information on ADA-funded research grant awardees), 2007 IRS Form 990 and 2006 IRS Form 990, no black awardees, no HBCU’s researchers<br />
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In other words the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc has not awarded not one research grant to HBCUs, even with the high incidence of black Americans with diabetes.<br />
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It is clear to this writer that the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation is saying that it has no interest in developing a strong research relationship with HBCU’s in relationship to issues of research related to the prevention and cure of diabetes, the prevention and cure of the complications of diabetes, and the development of new and improved therapies for individuals affected by diabetes.”<br />
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Although the ADA Research Foundation asks Americans to make a donation to the American Diabetes Association to help fund leading-edge research that affects the health and well-being of millions of people living with diabetes. It’s clear that funds are being awarded to friends and pals of the Board of ADA, and HBCU’s are being left out of the grant awards.<br />
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This should be no surprise. Rob Stein over at The Washington Post just reported on how Black scientists are significantly less likely than white researchers to win grants from the National Institutes of Health, according to an audit released Thursday that confirmed disturbing suspicions inside the agency about a lingering bias against African Americans.<br />
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Who said education is the great equalizer? When it comes to color aroused bigotry, it makes no difference if it’s NIH or the American Diabetes Association Foundation; color continues to play a factor in the way we address research of diseases in this country, particularly as it relates to African Americans.<br />
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It’s too bad for America, too bad for those with diabetes, and too bad for HBCU’s and black researchers.<br />
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<b><i>L. N. Rock is a management consultant, Democratic strategist, and 2008 credentialed blogger at the Democratic National Convention. He blogs at African American Pundit.</i></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-81439812364973970582011-08-18T22:29:00.000-07:002011-08-18T22:29:04.029-07:00Brazil is Half Brown, But Has No Brown-Skinned Women Among 27 Miss Brazil 2011 Candidates<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UiZkwhrqn9g" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Look at this year's candidates for <a href="http://missbrasiloficial.uol.com.br/"><b>Ms. Brasil.</b></a> Of approximately 27 from each state and the Federal District in the country, not a single one has brown skin, even though the population of Brazil includes <a href="http://www.suapesquisa.com/geografia/populacao_brasileira.htm"><b>50% of Brazilians with brown or tan Afro-descendent skin (see statistics below).</b></a><br />
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<blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;"> Fonte: IBGE * 2005 , ** Censo 2010</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Etnias (Ethnicities) no Brasil </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Pardos: 42,6%</span> (means brown skin, like e.g. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/francis-l-holland"><b>Francis L. Holland</b></a>)<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Brancos: 49,7%</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Negros: 6,9% <span style="background-color: white;">(means brown or black skin)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Indígenas: 0,3%</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Amarelos: 0,5%</span></blockquote><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NTpByyyzCEY" width="420"></iframe><br />
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The population of the state of Bahia, where I live, has a ratio of <a href="http://www.ibge.gov.br/estadosat/temas.php?sigla=ba&tema=resultpreluniver_censo2010"><b>ten brown-skinned people for every three white-skinned people</b></a>, and yet the state's representative at the Miss Brazil contest will be white-skinned, whatever her heritage may be. And for at least the last two years, Ms. Bahia has been white.<br />
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In all fairness and reality, if you carefully study the faces of each of the women in the above video, specialist in who has recent African ancestry may be able to identify three or four women whose noses and lips are of a shape often associated with brown skin, even though their skin is not brown. And some of these women may proudly state that they are Black. However, the skin color test is quite evident here, as it is in many other parts of Brazilian society.<br />
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Miss. Amapá, Miss Ceará, Miss Espiritu Santo, Miss Maranhão, Miss Mato Grosso, Miss Paraíba, Miss Paraná, Miss Sergipe and Miss Tocantins skin colors represent the outer limits of brownness for those seeking employment as dancers, guests and actors on many television soap operas and variety shows. Any darker and they become invisible.<br />
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Just look at the <a href="http://tititi.globo.com/personagens/"><b>all-white cast </b></a>of a recent miniseries, called "Tí, Tí, Tí, to confirm that only three out of seventy-six characters have unambiguously brown skin, and one of the two Black women plays a maid. In a country that is half brown, a television series has whites out-numbering Blacks by a ratio of 25 to 1. Color-determined roles are worse on Brazilian television than politics South Africa's historical apartheid regimes.<br />
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The Ms. Brazil website foresees the controversy over an all-white competition and so it points out, in a special section entitled "Black Beauty," that one of the candidates for Ms. Brasil in 2010, <b><a href="http://missbrasiloficial.uol.com.br/?secao=materia&materia=41&revista=14&pagina=5">Ms. Ceará, had copper-toned skin</a>.</b> So, if you wait until next year, you may discover that a 50% brown and black-skinned country has at least one brown or black skinned contestant for Miss Brazil. This year, the contest might as well be for Miss Switzerland.<br />
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I do not refer to "race" above, because it is entirely possible in Brazil that one or more of the women in the video has a brown-skinned parent or grandparent. So, it would be arbitrary and speculative to say that all of these women with white skin are from the "white race."<br />
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Instead, it is entirely possible that one or more of the women shown here considers herself to be Black. But NONE of them, out of approximately 27, has brown skin. (<a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35640.htm"><b>There are 26 states and the Federal District in Brazil</b></a>, each with a contestant for Miss Brazil.)<br />
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I would mention something like this to my beige-skin step-daughters, but they wouldn't understand how it was relevant that they had virtually zero percent chance of becoming Ms. Brazil, simply because their skin is too dark.<br />
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My obsession with realities such as these is one of the reasons I could not get along with my wife's daughters (e.g. I felt disgusted at the smell and the reality of their hot irons burning their hair straight, and their inability to understand why all-white institutions bothered me so), and so we split up. You might well say that my family was a victim of color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior, at the individual, familial and societal levels.<br />
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Their mother would understand. She has Rasta Locks, unlike the entire herd of Ms. Brazil candidates, all with straight and/or straightened hair.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-24787624111233401442011-08-09T11:13:00.000-07:002011-08-09T11:13:27.398-07:00Deryl Dedmond Case Spotlights Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder<img border="0" height="0" src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMTI5MjMwMTM*ODQmcHQ9MTMxMjkyMzAxNjc5NiZwPTEyNTg*MTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZF8x/Mzk4NDQwN19IYXRlUG9zc2libGVNb3RpdmF*b3JpbkJydXRhbEtpbGxpbmcmZz*yJm89MDMzZDViZjc5YjJlNDZiZjkzMDRjOGJk/Y2IwZTVmYjcmb2Y9MA==.gif" style="height: 0px; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;" width="0" /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0" height="248" id="ABCESNWID" width="398"><param name="movie" value="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_69.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="flashvars" value="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&configId=406733&clipId=13984407&showId=13984407&gig_lt=1312923013484&gig_pt=1312923016796&gig_g=2" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_69.swf" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="398" height="248" flashvars="configUrl=http://abcnews.go.com/video/sfp/embedPlayerConfig&configId=406733&clipId=13984407&showId=13984407&gig_lt=1312923013484&gig_pt=1312923016796&gig_g=2" name="ABCESNWID"></embed></object><br />
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The case of Deryl Dedmond, a white teenager who seems to have suffered from Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder (ECAD) that led him to murder a Black stranger, seems to be getting massive attention in the United States, as it should. Apparently, Deryl Dedmond led a group of white teenagers to get in their cars and trucks, drive from their all-white suburb to Jackson, Misssissippi, pick a Black man at random, beat him to within an inch of his life, and then run the Black man over with a pick-up truck. "<b>According<a href="http://morallowground.com/2011/08/08/lets-go-fuck-with-some-niggers-racist-murder-of-james-craig-anderson-49-caught-on-video-in-mississippi/"></a></b> to <b><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/06/mississippi.hate.crime/index.html?hpt=hp_c1">CNN</a>,</b> the teens were specifically hunting for a black victim."<br />
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Curiously, police have decided to charge only two of several white youths in this case, including murder for Dedmond and assault for his companion. Compare this to the Jena Six case, where no one was seriously hurt and yet three Black men were charged with acts including attempted murder. This case will be an object lesson about the criminal (in)justice system, regarding the way that Blacks and whites are investigated charged and sentenced in similar cases, based on their skin color. <br />
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It also seems obvious to me (see the above video) that Deryl Dedmond was led to the act he committed by a serious mental illness called "Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder" (ECAD) because:<br />
<ul><li>Witnesses say that Dedmond showed aggressive and antagonistic behavior toward Blacks over a period of years.</li>
<li>Dedmond came to the attention of people in his community as a result of his color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior;</li>
<li>Witnesses believed it was only a matter of time before Dedmond committed a serious color aroused crime, which is a hallmark of Extreme Color Aroused Disorder. Anyone who will kill a stranger based on his skin color has a serious mental illness called Extreme Color Aroused Disorder. Color Aroused Disorder is "extreme" when the color arousal leads one person to murder another, because murder itself is extreme and often leads to long jail sentences that separate the mentally ill person from his family, friends and educational or professional career. An illness that seriously harms a person in that many important areas of his life is "extreme" <i>per se.</i> </li>
</ul>Now that we have seen what Deryl could do based on his awareness, ideation, emotion and behavior concerning his own skin color and that of another skin-color group, let's see how the criminal justice system and the media treat this case. <br />
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Hopefully, Deryl Dedmond is already getting some psychiatric attention that might eventually lead from an extreme condition that causes him to commit murder and lessen the illness until he can at least not kill based on his ideation and emotion. He may need medication that enables him to control strong emotions more successfully and also to help him reduce his rage to the point where he can engage meaningfully in therapy that addresses is apparent Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder (ECAD).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-87220643335503143072011-08-08T19:14:00.000-07:002011-08-08T20:24:03.936-07:00White Youths Kill Black Stranger in Color-Aroused Crime<div class="post-header"></div>How can you tell whether an alleged act or acts reflect and are symptomatic of Extreme Color-Aroused Ideation, Emotion and Behavior Disorder? In criminal cases, among other evidence, people's statements (verbally expressed ideation) may reflect their hate, fear, envy, jealousy, or even curiosity, love, lust, empathy and caring, based on skin color.<br />
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For example,<br />
<blockquote><b><a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/mississippi-hate-crime-caught-video">CNN is reporting the alleged hate crime [against] James Craig Anderson</a>, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was beaten and then murdered [run over by a truck driven] by a group of white teens intent on hurting a black person. Deryl Dedmon, Jr., 18, of Brandon, Mississippi and his friends were at a party drinking when Dedmon allegedly told friends they should leave, saying "let's go fuck with some niggers," according to law enforcement officials.</b></blockquote><br />
When ideation and emotion are based on skin color, and skin color is the cue for a person to commit a criminal act, then you have a color-aroused behavior that, in many cases, may bring civil and criminal penalties. It is important to note that it is the illicit behavior that may bring civil and criminal punishments, while these punishments would NOT result from "mere" extreme color-aroused ideation and emotion, without the illicit behavior. The illicit behavior is a key symptom sometimes present in Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder.<br />
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Is all color-aroused violence a "hate crime"? As a legal matter it might be, but as a matter of psychology, not necessarily. If the white-skinned Dedmon killed the victim because the white anti-black antagonist was jealous of Black people and their Black President, then the crime might factually be a crime of envy, hate, jealousy and vengeance. If you if you imagine Dedmon in his first meeting with the prison psychologist, his resentments against Black people may be based on a number of emotions, since virtually no one feels only hate, consciously and unconsciously. Everybody has a panoply of feelings. A white man might <i><b>hate</b></i> a Black US Senate candidate because he<i><b> fears</b></i> the Black candidate will be elected.<br />
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I am painfully aware that a lot of Black people and white people believe that any attempt to undertand psychologically why a culprit did what he did risks that the culprit may be perceived as not as culpable for what he did, and therefore might receive a lesser sentence, if he receives a sentence at all.<br />
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In this case, where there is video cam evidence and where Dedmon admitted his crime after the fact, Dedmon could receive a strong prison sentence, unless his case is tried before an all-white jury. Perhaps the case may be tried before an all-white jury, and then Dedmon might go free, in spite of his crime that was based on anti-Black antagonistic ideation, emotion and criminal behavior.<br />
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When a person assaults and kills a stranger based on the skin color of the victim and the skin color of the accused, then that is a strong indicator that the culprit has Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder, since no one without the disorder would risk imprisonment for the purpose of targeting a stranger based on skin color. Only a person with Extreme Color Aroused Disorder would do that. Disorder is "extreme" when, among other facts:<br />
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<ul><li> The behavior violated laws such that it could bring or be likely to lead to criminal charges or civil liability against the assailant(s);</li>
<li>The assailants did not know the victim and were looking to harm someone, anyone, based on his brown skin color; </li>
<li>The assailant risks that the man they attack might be armed or have friends nearby, and so attacking the victim could very well lead to physical harm for the assailants;</li>
<li>The assailants did not stand to gain or save any money through this behavior, but could only lose money so the assailants' behavior was not self-interested but was likely to be self-destructive;</li>
<li>The assailants run the risk of spending time in jail or even being executed for their crime;</li>
<li>The assailants lose social, political and potential professional opportunities as a result of the behavior.</li>
</ul>The above focuses on the irrational and self-destructive nature of the behavior, which is indicative of Extreme Color-Aroused Disorder (ECAD). Of course, behavior can be self-interested (i.e. stealing from someone based on their skin color) and still be symptomatic of Extreme Color Aroused Disorder.<br />
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When the accused Mr. Dedmon has gets to prison and speaks with the prison psychologist for the first time, Dedmon might well reveal that he was envious of Black people, many of whom have successful jobs, nice cars and a happy future ahead of them. <br />
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Is it wrong to acknowledge that a crime might have been motivated by color-aroused envy or color-aroused jealousy and/or color-aroused fear, as well as color-aroused hatred?<br />
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If a Black man kills a white man because he fears that the white man will take his wife, based on his knowledge that his wife has a thing for white men, then the killing of a white man by a Black man could be aroused by jealousy, envy and fear that leads to antagonistic behavior. If this seems complex, it is. Human beings are believed to have powers of feeling, thought and behavior that others in the animal kingdom do not have. If you accept that proposition, then you must also accept that human minds are copiously full of all sorts ideation and emotion that sometimes lead to behavior.<br />
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If you hear anyone trying to describe all of this with one word, e.g. "racism" or "hate," then you know that person simply has not taken the time and effort to understand the mechanics of color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior, and they may even be averse to complex thought about inherently complex people. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-25346205552107835272011-08-08T11:32:00.000-07:002011-08-08T11:35:38.075-07:00Don't Confuse Race with RaceI just read about a <a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-can-make-clear-distinction-between.html"><b>disappointing book</b></a> in which a Black woman author says that "race" doesn't exist but "race" does and so we have to teach everyone the difference between "race" and "race". That's like teaching people the difference between "orange" and "orange." Do you mean the same thing when you say orange (fruit) that I mean when I say orange (color)? Unless we discuss it for about twenty years, we won't even be able to tell the difference. <br />
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Meanwhile, other malevolent people will take advantage of the confusion for all sorts of evil purposes.<br />
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<ul><li>I don't like that orange! Do you? </li>
<li>Oh, no, I hate that orange.</li>
<li>Do you like the oranges? <br />
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<li>Oh, no! I can't stand any of them.</li>
<li>Would you like an orange?</li>
<li>Oh, yes, I need the vitamin "C".</li>
</ul>If anything ever needed to be disambiguated, it's the vocabulary that use when we say "race" and when, on the other hand, we say "race." The author said it's simple to tell the difference, but if it's so simple then why did she have to write a book about it and why should anyone buy her book about something that is obvious?<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b>Will Obama's race hurt his race? No, I don't think the race will matter much, unless the race doesn't turn out to vote. Now, I'm realizing that this race is for real! No, a race doesn't matter at all. It the conduct of the race that matters in the race between the races, and I think Obama has race locked up as much as he has funding for the race. Is Obama fund-raising for </b><b>his </b><b>race instead of fundraising for all of the Democratic Party races? Although race is a scientific fallacy, race is for real and its significance cannot be underestimated.<br />
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</b></div><b>Are you confused now? Don't feel bad because everyone is.</b><br />
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FrancisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-64355502818418656642011-05-21T21:56:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:56:34.049-07:00African American Book Review: Sylvia Harris' Autobiography of Bipolar Disorser and Salvation Through Love of Horse RacingThe new book, "Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me," is a must-read for those African Americans like me who struggle with bipolar illness, as well as for professionals caregivers and family members who want to understand Bipolar patients and have a sincere desire to help. As someone who has seen this process from the inside, I can and do vouch for the anguish it causes in the patient, family and career. <br />
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The author, Sylvia Harris, describes exactly what it was like to be somewhat manic, floridly manic, psychotically manic and depressed. She recalls a time when she cycled through these stages with no idea of what has happening to her, clueless as to the exit from the perpetual emotional roller coaster. <br />
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Through her painfully honest autobiography, she gives readers an inside view of her manic-depressive problem and how she overcame its worst aspects by striving for meaning and healthy excitement. Desiring to become a horse trainer and eventually a jockey, she demonstrates that we need not achieve all that we want in order to benefit from the pursuit of our dreams. <br />
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Without specifically saying so, she demonstrates the similarities between Bipolar illness, alcoholism and drug addiction, in which many sufferers, their families, circle of friends and employers must often acknowledge the illness and their personal powerlessness over it, before they can find relief and redemption. <br />
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Harris courageously describes learning to realize when an attack of mania was beginning and what--for her--triggered those attacks. <br />
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Not all readers (including myself) will identify with Harris' love for horses and the essential role they came to have in Harris' rehabilitation. But, everyone perceives that having a personally meaningful goal toward which we strive helps us to find meaning in life when our lives would otherwise seem to us to be meaningless. <br />
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Essentially, Bipolars often have a necessity for a goal and aspiration larger than life, lest we be overcome by depression and the conviction that our lives are meaningless. <br />
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As in any worthwhile autobiography, Sylvia Harris brings the reader along on the trail to overcoming the worst her difficulties, while acknowledging that some "wreckage of the past" is inevitable but not utterly insoluble. <br />
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I personally do not read prefaces or introductions to autobiographies, because of their tendency to remove the mystery and discovery process from the narrative itself. Sylvia Harris's "Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me" ends realistically, in a manner with which we may all be able to identify. <br />
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If you enjoy the thrill of discovering what happens at the end of Sylvia Harris' autobiography, then don't read the introduction and preface at the beginning. <br />
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Read the whole autobiography and learn what happens just as Sylvia Harris did: one day and one experience at a time. <br />
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You can't be of help to a Bipolar person or patient unless you understand their world from their perspective, as well as from your own (probably) vastly different perspective on the patient and the illness. This is maddeningly frustrating, but true nonetheless. <br />
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This book provides a heartfelt, and searingly honest account of life for those like me who struggle with bipolar illness, as well as for professionals, caregivers and family members who want to understand <br />
Bipolar patients and who have a sincere desire to help.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-36007450254299720342011-05-16T17:37:00.001-07:002011-05-16T19:44:22.677-07:00"Race" and Blood Types, Superstition and ScienceWould you rather have a blood transfusion from someone who shares your skin color or from someone who shares your blood type? It is my belief that transfusing blood from one person to another based on skin color would be an extraordinarily dangerous practice. The <a href="http://www.redcrossblood.org/learn-about-blood/blood-types"><b>American Red Cross</b></a>, <a href="http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood"><b>which maintains blood banks</b></a>, says:<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b>Although all blood is made of the same basic elements, not all blood is alike. In fact, there are eight different common blood types, which are determined by the presence or absence of certain antigens – substances that can trigger an immune response if they are foreign to the body. Since some antigens can trigger a patient's immune system to attack the transfused blood, safe blood transfusions depend on careful blood typing and cross-matching.</b></div><br />
The blood table below, broken out by "race," shows that blood types do not obey superstitious sociological and cultural notions of "race". The following chart from the <a href="http://www.redcrossblood.org/learn-about-blood/blood-types"><b>American Red Cross</b></a> shows that if all Caucasians received O+ blood transfusions on the logic that O+ is most common among Caucasians, then sixty-three percent of white people would receive the WRONG blood type during transfusions.<br />
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Most white people would have a higher chance of receiving the proper blood type from an Hispanic person (53%O+) than they would from another white person, since the most common blood type among whites is (O+ 37%) and is also most common among Hispanics (O+53%) of Hispanics have that blood type. <br />
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If a white person with type O+ blood needs a battle-field transfusion and medics don't know the blood types of another white person available and an Hispanic person available, the best bet (53% O+) would be to give the white person a transfusion from a Hispanic person--NOT another white person. <br />
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All white people have a lesser chance of having O+ blood than do Hispanics (O+53). <br />
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #ffff33; width: 480px;"><tbody>
<tr class="dates-bg-dkgray"> <td align="center" valign="top" width="40"><div></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="110"><div><b>Caucasians</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="110"><div><b>African American</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="110"><div><b>Hispanic</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="110"><div><b>Asian</b></div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-gray"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>O +</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">37%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">47%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">53%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">39%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-white"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>O -</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">8%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">4%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">4%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">1%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-gray"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>A +</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">33%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">24%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">29%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">27%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-white"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>A -</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">7%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">2%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">2%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">0.5%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-gray"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>B +</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">9%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">18%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">9%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">25%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-white"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>B -</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">2%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">1%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">1%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">0.4%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-gray"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>AB +</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">3%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">4%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">2%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">7%</div></td> </tr>
<tr class="dates-bg-white"> <td align="center" valign="top"><div><b>AB -</b></div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">1%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">0.3%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">0.2%</div></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">0.1%</div></td> </tr>
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</div><small><b style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/goog_901943088"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Dennis O'Neil</span></b></a></span></b></small><a href="http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_3.htm"> <b>Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College, San Marcos, California writes: </b></a> <br />
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</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="font-weight: 400;">. . . patterns of ABO<span lang="en-us">, Rh,</span> and Diego blood type distributions are not similar to those for skin color or other so-called "racial" traits. The implication is that the specific causes responsible for the distribution of human blood types have been different than those for other traits that have been commonly employed to categorize people into "races." Since it would be possible to divide up humanity into radically different groupings using blood typing instead of other genetically inherited traits such as skin color, we have more conclusive evidence that the commonly used <b><a href="http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/glossary.htm#typological_model">typological model</a></b> for understanding human variation is scientifically unsound.</b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="font-weight: 400;">As a matter of science, <b>Dr. </b></b></span><small><b style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/goog_901943088"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dennis O'Neil concludes that the belief in "race" has less basis in science than other more medically useful groupings. He concludes that:</span></span></b></a></span></b></small><br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="font-weight: 400;">The more we study the precise details of human variation, the more we understand how complex are the patterns. They cannot be easily summarized or understood. Yet, this hard-earned scientific knowledge is generally ignored in most countries because of more demanding social and political concerns. As a result, discrimination based on presumed "racial" groups still continues.<span lang="en-us"> It is important to keep in mind that this "racial" classification often has more to do with cultural and historical distinctions than it does with biology. In a very real sense, "race" is a distinction that is created by culture not biology.</span></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-66580899680957444492011-04-10T21:25:00.000-07:002011-04-10T21:26:32.625-07:00Tyler Perry is Color-Aroused but He IS NOT an Anti-Black Color-Aroused Antagonist<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://amjca.blogspot.com/"></a></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"></h3><div class="post-header"></div>I'm the editor of the blog, American Journal of Color Arousal, where we ( I ) study color-arousal issues from a cognitive behavioral perspective do determine whether a person is a color-aroused antagonist with respect to Black people and/or other skin color groups.<br />
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Tyler Perry's movies are certainly color aroused. He clearly has looked at some Black families, including his own. He clearly believes that Black people's culture or depictions of it are a worthy subject movies. He finds and evokes humor in Black people's foibles and even dysfunctional behaviors. His focus on Black people clearly is aroused by his own skin color and other Black individuals and families. He's color-aroused.<br />
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Do thoughts (ideation) about Black people arouse his feelings of sadness, gladness, mirth and anguish, vengeance, fear and rage? I suspect that his films evoke IN HIM all of the above feelings and many more. Obviously, they do. He feels a special pull to do movies about Black people and that pull comes from his beliefs (ideation) and feelings (emotions).<br />
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Are his behaviors motivated by his color-aroused thoughts and feelings? Obviously they are. He makes movies about and for Black people because they interest him deeply.<br />
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Is Tyler Perry a color-aroused <b><i>antagonist</i></b>, targeting both himself and other Black people for unfair criticism and ridicule? I think the answer is "no." Tyler Perry's movies are funny to Black people because he identifies and creates characters who remind us of ourselves, our relatives and friends, in one way or another. <br />
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When we see a Tyler Perry movie it's like listening to a masterful preacher who sleighs everyone with his incisive wit at one point or another, and we all walk away determined to do better in the future.<br />
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So, Tyler is aroused by skin color-associated ideation and emotions to make films about Blacks. Is there anything wrong with that? I prefer to see a movie about Blacks in key roles, with a Black sensibility.<br />
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Where is the <i><b>anti-Black antagonism</b></i> in Perry's movies? I can't find it. Most people will agree that Tyler Perry makes us laugh--when he's a woman in his films and when he's a man. He is able to play the role of upper middle class educated man in control of his impulses just as he is capable of playing a late-middle aged Black woman (Madea) so outraged at the abuse of a women that she gets her gun and goes looking for the culprit.<br />
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<i><b>Madea does</b></i> what all of us would like to do (if it weren't illegal) when a Black woman is beaten and humiliated. She pulls her gun and puts the fight and the strength in others who we too beaten down to stand up for themselves.<br />
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The trick to perceiving that Tyler Perry<b><i> is not</i></b> an anti-Black antagonist is in the striking themes where arrogant egotism always leads to humiliation, reconciliation and redemption. The Tyler Perry characters with the worst Black male anti-Black-woman antagonists are morality plays made funny, passionate and dramatic, showing us each a part of ourselves that we need to work on and work out before it works on us.<br />
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Tyler Perry warns us not to become egotistic, arrogant and abusive, lest we find ourselves humbled in front of those very same people whom we believed we could abuse and humiliate with impunity. Ultimately the theme of Tyler Perry's music is the possibility and necessity for redemption in all of us, which is a lesson which we all need to remember, regardless of our skin color.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-53110474534707498342011-03-02T19:17:00.000-08:002011-03-02T19:17:50.343-08:00Can "White History Year" Still Be Relevant in a Multicultural Society?<a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/black-history-month-over-so-over#comments"><b>Mr. McWhorther (of The Root):</b></a><br />
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This is no time to end Black History Month. What white America "gets" about Black people is equivalent to what a law student gets in his first two months of law school: confused and afraid, but certainly not fully educated.<br />
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The alternative to Black History Month is "White-History-Year". Before Black History Month, white and Black students learned about the French, Spanish Dutch and English settlers of America and were required to remember all of their names and dates. Meanwhile, we were not required to remember the name or date of any Black person whatsoever. <br />
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It was thought that no Black person had done anything worthy of being considered in "American History." And so "American History" was really nine or ten insufferable months of "White-History-Year" for grade school students. I don't want my nephews and nieces to suffer through that.<br />
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Black History Month's purpose is not just to teach whites about Blacks' contribution, but it is also to teach Black children about Blacks contributions. I don't think we can just assume that all Black children (or white children) know that Black man invented the blood bank:<br />
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<a href="http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldrew.htm"><b>http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldrew.htm</b></a><br />
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and another Black man, Garret A. Morgan, invented the traffic light and gas masks:<br />
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<b><a href="http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/a/Garrett_Morgan.htm">http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/a/Garrett_Morgan.htm</a></b><br />
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If grade schools and universities don't teach this information to Black and white and Latino students, then how will they ever know? Does everyone Black and white "get it" already? I didn't know a Black man invented the gas mask until I began researching the names of these Black inventors in order to post this comment.<br />
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Blacks and whites still need Black History Month because it compels text book publishers to include Blacks in their textbooks and it also compels white teachers to follow the curriculum by discussing Blacks, at least for twenty days out of each year.<br />
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Finally, we cannot end Black History Month because the alternative is White-History-Year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-54546425471956246522011-02-26T14:32:00.000-08:002011-02-26T14:51:03.793-08:00Was Star Black MS High School Football Player Billy Joe Johnson Murdered By a Sheriff's Deputy Because Johnson's Girlfriend Had White Skin?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUzK3vCA9kFsub6KkhpaXFITAutJxkVTYec30jNx9aqa-gVJro7fUpQA1fKRiCcnSys-m8V_mLWNgS1i7zv6EwZVDuGiaQidGJ2oLuG5Bx0pYnXwPvomPFZVUzvMmJF1ZNHkSxOsts5c/s1600/johnson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUzK3vCA9kFsub6KkhpaXFITAutJxkVTYec30jNx9aqa-gVJro7fUpQA1fKRiCcnSys-m8V_mLWNgS1i7zv6EwZVDuGiaQidGJ2oLuG5Bx0pYnXwPvomPFZVUzvMmJF1ZNHkSxOsts5c/s200/johnson.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
<b><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2011/02/billey-joe-johnson-jr-killed-by-george.html">African American Pundit (AAP)</a></b> asks how and why a seventeen year-old star high school football player Billy Joe Johnson died on the road, shot with a shotgun, in the presence of a George County, Mississippi sheriff's deputy? The police say Billy Joe Johnson had tried to break into the house of his white girlfriend (he had the admiration of girls of every skin color), but the police also say that Billy Joe Johnson died in a typical traffic stop, after he ran a red light.<br />
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The police say that the sheriff's deputy went o radio from his car when all of a sudden Billy Joe shot himself in the mouth with a shot gun, and the shotgun was found laying on top of him. I wish the late Johnny Cochran were alive, such was his ability to show the absurdity of police testimony before a jury. But, Johnny Cochran has gone on to greener pastures, leaving his his legacy for the rest of us to emulate. 'If the story doesn't fit, it must be bullshit.'<br />
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So which of the police's two stories is true, if any of them is true. Did he die because his white girlfriend called the police after he allegedly tried to break into her house? Did he die because he ran a red light in a typical traffic stop? Or did he die because he was the most famous and renowned member of his community, beloved by all except those who viscerally hate Black men, and particularly Black men who "usurp" white men's "rights" by dating white women?<br />
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This case shows the poverty of the word "racism". If the sheriff's deputy was responsible in some way, was it because he was envious, jealous, color-aroused to envy, jealousy and fury by Johnson's bi-chromatic relationships, or did he die because white policemen believe that all Black males deserve to be in prison or dead? Did Billy Joe die because he didn't bow and scrape in the face of the sheriff's deputy?<br />
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It seems to me that the white girlfriend whose home was allegedly the target of a break-in attempt by Johnson that night is a valuable witness in this case. Did she call the police? Was she afraid of her boyfriend? Or is this alleged detail just another piece of propaganda invented by the George County, MS Sheriff's Department in a bold attempt to legitimize the execution of a star football player who had not even allegedly committed a capital or criminal offense, and where it is not even alleged that he threatened an officer?<br />
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Don't the police ALWAYS come forward with some unrelated and alleged act of wrongdoing in a young Black man's history in an attempt to demonstrate that police probably made the right decision when they decided to execute a Black man during a traffic stop?<br />
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This case stinks like rat that died in a hidden corner of the House of America.<br />
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There is so much that we don't know. That's why we call on Attorney General Eric Holder to visit the family in Mississippi and comfort them in the knowledge that the Justice Department is doing everything possible to find and disseminate the facts in this case. If President Obama can meet on the White House lawn with a police officer whose feelings have been hurt, then certainly Attorney General Eric Holder can meet in Mississippi with the grieving and anguished family of the late Billy Joe Johnson, promising them as much action is legally warranted after a full investigation.<br />
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It cannot and must not be a capital crime for a Black teenager to be a star football player and to date women regardless of their skin color. And Black young men must not die at random at the hands of sheriffs' deputies in the States of Mississippi in the year 2011.<br />
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I call on Attorney General Eric Holder to personally meet with the family, and to order the questioning of the sheriff's deputy and the white girlfriend, and gather others evidence as the facts warrant, before deciding what action is appropriate to vindicate the right to be alive, even if you are a star high school Black football player with a white girlfriend in Mississippi.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-69043560709018804192011-02-09T13:50:00.001-08:002011-02-09T13:50:22.322-08:00Noose Found in Locker of Black Man Suing NYFD for Discrimination<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6asYUj4rImz9bJXNweBi8dc-D_nkqulbITpqY-Ic1ch46lAVSqwHIwsnmt-E2vOssysu1bQfpkFxh2QeO7BpY7cEPDdw5YvFvvg0AJKGhnvjmAwO_9GO3vkq0Ub0xV997Ro-GFH49k3c/s1600/Noose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6asYUj4rImz9bJXNweBi8dc-D_nkqulbITpqY-Ic1ch46lAVSqwHIwsnmt-E2vOssysu1bQfpkFxh2QeO7BpY7cEPDdw5YvFvvg0AJKGhnvjmAwO_9GO3vkq0Ub0xV997Ro-GFH49k3c/s320/Noose.jpg" width="287" /></a></div><a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/noose-found-locker-black-man-suing-nyfd-discrimination"><b>The Root</b></a> says a New York Fire Department electrician found a three foot noose hanging in front of his locker after he and other electricians alleged discrimination in provision of overtime and promotions within the Department. <br />
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<a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/noose-found-locker-black-man-suing-nyfd-discrimination"><b><em></em></b></a><b><em><a href="" target="_blank">Gregory Seabrook</a>, an FDNY communications electrician for nearly 20 years, found the noose Thursday at the FDNY facility at 87 Union St. in <a href="" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>, his lawyers said yesterday.</em></b><br />
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It appears that there still is some extreme color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior within the NYFD. I says "extreme" because hanging a noose in an office is an offense that could lead to dismissal. Only a person with extreme color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior would risk losing his job and public standing by hanging a noose in front of a co-worker's locker.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Getty Images.</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Malcolm Gladwell experienced color-aroused antagonism when he grew an Afro.</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/malcolm-gladwell-reflects-his-afro-and-snap-judgments?wpisrc=obinsite"><b>The Root </b></a>and Malcolm Gladwell report that, simply by Gladwell changing his hair to an Afro style, his new color-associated physical characteristic was the cue that aroused antagonistic ideation, emotion and behavior from societal authorities such as airport security and the police. </div><blockquote><b>Malcolm Gladwell, author of four best-sellers, including <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316010669/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295918473&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Blink</a> </i>and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=what+the+dog+saw&x=0&y=0" target="_blank">What the Dog Saw</a></i>, is fascinated by explaining everyday experiences.</b><br />
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<b><i>Blink</i> explores how humans make snap judgments (and how often we can be wrong). In <i>What the Dog Saw,</i> he questions "false certainties" -- things we <i>think </i>we know.</b><br />
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<b>What does hair have to do with it? In a recent interview with CNN, the biracial writer explains that when he grew his out and "began to look more like people's stereotype of a black male," he experienced "a striking transformation in the way the world viewed [him]," including getting stopped by police and when he went through customs at the airport.</b><br />
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<b>"Even though I was exactly the same person, once I had longer hair, the world saw me as being profoundly different," he said.</b></blockquote>Blink shows that a color-associated physical characteristic (hair in the case) is sufficient to arouse ideation, emotion and behavior in others. No wonder that Black women straighten their hair. Would we have them grow Afros and braids and then face the constant color-aroused antagonism associated with color-associated physical characteristics?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-70471788616055857432010-12-30T21:12:00.000-08:002010-12-30T21:12:59.464-08:00"Race" is not "Racially Ambiguous"; It Simply Does Not ExistApparently a <b><a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/nike-waxes-poetic-about-big-butts-ad?wpisrc=obnetwork">skirmish over color arousal</a></b> in a <a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/nike-responds-big-butt-ad"><b>potentially fake Nike ad</b></a>, <a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/nike-responds-big-butt-ad"><b>touting women with large behinds</b></a>, led to <a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/nike-waxes-poetic-about-big-butts-ad?wpisrc=obnetwork"><b>a discussion of the issue at The Root</b></a> this week. The Root writer, Nsenga K. Burton, wrote that the skin color in the photograph posted made the woman "racially ambiguous."<br />
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To try and add some scientific substance to the question, instead of becoming hopelessly confused and chasing our tails in "racial" circles, I posted the following:<br />
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<div class="js-singleComment jsk-ItemWrapper jsk-PrimaryFont js-singleCommentDepth0 js-comment-stripe-1" id="jsid-1293771429-402"><div class="js-singleCommentBg" style="z-index: 300;"><div class="js-singleCommentAvatar jsk-ItemUserAvatarWrapper js-kit-clickable" style="height: 48px; width: 48px;"><img src="http://www.theroot.com/sites/default/files/default-pic.gif" style="height: 48px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 48px;" /></div><div style="margin-left: 48px;"><div class="jsk-ItemContentWrapper"><div class="jsk-ItemBody jsk-PrimaryFontColor"><img class="js-singleCommentAdminStar" src="http://cdn.js-kit.com/images/stars/admin-comment.png" title="This user is an administrator" /> <span class="js-singleCommentName jsk-ItemName jsk-LinkColor jsk-LinkFont js-kit-clickable" style="cursor: pointer;">francislholland</span><span class="js-singleCommentIP jsk-SecondaryFontColor" style="display: none;"></span><img class="js-singleCommentUrl" src="http://cdn.js-kit.com/images/icon10-external-url.png" /> <br />
<span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText">I find it most interesting that the writer describes this woman as "racially ambiguous". "Race", as a matter of science, does NOT exist and it never did. The reason that her "race" is so hard to determine is that "race' was never a scientific reality. It's like saying the height and weight of the Easter Bunny and Santa's reindeer are "ambiguous." They are ambiguous because they don't exist. <br />
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According to the <b><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml">U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Human Genome Program,</a></b> <br />
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"DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. There also is no genetic basis for divisions of human ethnicity. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other." <br />
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In other words, the Human Genome Project has proven that, as a matter of scientific fact, that which we call "race" does not exist as a matter of biology, and so all references to "race" are references to a fallacy. <br />
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An article called <b><a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html">'Race' and the Human Genome", published at Nature.Com in the "Nature Genetics,"</a> </b>acknowledges that: <b><br />
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"</b>With very rare exceptions, all of us in the US are immigrants. We bring with us a subset of genes from our homelands, and for many Americans, often first-generation but more commonly second-generation, the plural noun 'homelands' is appropriate. From this perspective, the most immediately obvious characteristic of 'race' is that describing most of us as Caucasian, Asian or African is far too simple. Despite attempts by the US Census Bureau to expand its definitions, the term 'race' does not describe most of us with the subtlety and complexity required to capture and appreciate our genetic diversity. Unfortunately, this oversimplification has had many tragic effects. Therefore, we need to start with the science . . . "</span></div><div class="jsk-ItemFooter"><div><div class="js-singleCommentDate jsk-ItemAge jsk-SecondaryFontColor">Yesterday, 22:57:09</div><div class="js-singleCommentCtls"><span class="js-singleCommentFlagable" style="display: none;"><span class="jsk-SecondaryFontColor"><b> – </b></span><b><a class="js-singleCommentFlag js-singleCommentControl jsk-SecondaryFontColor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082">Flag</a></b></span><span class="js-singleCommentLikeable"><span class="jsk-SecondaryFontColor"><b> – </b></span><b><a class="js-singleCommentLike js-singleCommentControl jsk-SecondaryFontColor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082" title="Click here if you like this item">Like</a></b></span><span class="js-singleCommentReplyable"><span class="jsk-SecondaryFontColor"><b> – </b></span><b><a class="js-singleCommentReply js-singleCommentControl jsk-SecondaryFontColor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082">Reply</a></b></span><span class="js-singleCommentDeletable"><span class="jsk-SecondaryFontColor"><b> – </b></span><b><a class="js-singleCommentDelete js-singleCommentControl jsk-SecondaryFontColor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082">Delete</a></b></span><span class="js-singleCommentEditable" style="display: none;"><span class="jsk-SecondaryFontColor"><b> – </b></span><b><a class="js-singleCommentEdit js-singleCommentControl jsk-SecondaryFontColor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082">Edit</a></b></span><span class="js-singleCommentModeratable" style="display: none;"><span class="jsk-SecondaryFontColor"><b> – </b></span><b><a class="js-singleCommentModerate js-singleCommentControl jsk-SecondaryFontColor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4993273906274465082">Moderate</a></b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="js-singleCommentAvatar jsk-ItemUserAvatarWrapper js-kit-clickable" style="height: 48px; opacity: 1; width: 48px;"><b><img src="http://www.theroot.com/sites/default/files/default-pic.gif" style="height: 48px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 48px;" /></b></div><img class="js-singleCommentAdminStar" src="http://cdn.js-kit.com/images/stars/admin-comment.png" title="This user is an administrator" /> <span class="js-singleCommentName jsk-ItemName jsk-LinkColor jsk-LinkFont js-kit-clickable" style="cursor: pointer;">francislholland</span><img class="js-singleCommentUrl" src="http://cdn.js-kit.com/images/icon10-external-url.png" /> <br />
<span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText">The reality is that the skin color of the woman in the photograph is</span><b><span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText"> <b><a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/nike-waxes-poetic-about-big-butts-ad?wpisrc=obnetwork#comments">"bisque", which is designated on the Internet Color chart as color number " #FFE4C4 "</a></b>. <br />
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</span></b><span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText">No vapid and anti-scientific discussion of her "race" can change the color of her skin, while her skin color does not fit within hardened sociological notions of "racial" extremes. We cannot assign to her membership in the "black race" or the "white race" because those "races" simply do not exist now and never did in the past. <br />
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Actual scientists might have divided humans into subspecies based on skin color, hair color, height, and other characteristics, except that it has been found to be impossible to find any given genetic material in one human group that is not present to some extent in another human group. Hence the "racial ambiguity". It is far more scientific to simply acknowledge that sub-races of the human race simply do not exist, and even <i>if they did exist</i> it would not be possible to distinguish and predict their genetic differences based on their skin color. <br />
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The truth is that the woman above has a skin color that is not easily named within a binomial "race by skin color" social system. Let's adjust the social system to the science rather than continuing in futility to try to adjust the science to the social system. That is what the author above admitted s/he was doing when s/he tried to assign a bisque-colored woman to a "white race" or "black race". <br />
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Others can and will stick with their "race"-based understanding of the science of human genetics. However, human geneticists of the Human Genome Project have already announced that humans will never fit into neat "races" based on their skin color. Just as phrenology is no longer a serious topic of science, I predict that "race" will have been replaced in science and elsewhere with much more subtle and useful understandings based on the human genome within the next fifty years. "Race" is headed toward the trash basket.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-24633714021692618522010-12-23T20:26:00.000-08:002010-12-23T20:31:41.249-08:00Why do Black Bloggers and White Supremacist Groups Agree that "Race" Exists?There can be no such thing as "historical racism" because <a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html"><b>"race" itself does not exist</b></a>. This is simply the finding of the most recent indisputable scientific understanding of the human genome. There is <a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html"><b>no basis in science</b></a> for the belief that we can group members of the human species into distinct "racial" subgroups that that can be identified by skin color. <br />
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There is no genetic material that can be found in all white people but no Black people, and there is likewise no genetic material that can be found consistently in Black people but that cannot be found in people with white skin. So the human genome simply does not and will not permit us to scientifically group humans "racially," based on skin color or geographical region of origin. <br />
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We Blacks may be more similar genetically to the "white" man across the street than we are to our Black daughter's new Black fiance. This is what genomic science tells us, but during slavery we could not fight the belief in "race" using genomic science because the human genes, on which genomic science is based, had not even been discover. They had not been thoroughly mapped, as they are today.<br />
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If you disagree that you may be genetically more similar to your white neighbor, then ask your self whether you would prefer to have a blood transfusion from you white neighbor or your daughter's Black husband. If you can answer that question without knowing the blood types of each of the potential donors, then your belief in "race" has tied your mind into so many knots that you may never be able to free yourself from them. <br />
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Once we lived in scientific ignorance and the belief in "race" because we <i><b>had</b></i> to do so if only because every aspect of American culture and law reinforced the notion of "race." Now, with the advances in the understanding of DNA and genomic science, we live in scientific ignorance only if we choose to do so.<br />
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There have been historical efforts to dominate and enslave others of the same skin color and/or different colors, often based in an "us vs. them" mentality, with dividing lines associated with geographical region of heritage, language, and social class .<br />
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But "historical racism" cannot exist because "race" itself does not exist. "Race" is the most discussed scientific fallacy that has no basis whatsoever in science. What do exist are skin color, skin color groups, and geographically and/or linguistically based culture groups. And some people and groups still have stubborn but real interests in the continued belief in the existence of "race." Just open the newspaper on any given day and you will find hundreds of such people, some of whom and naively ignorant, but many of whom believe they benefit from the concept of "race."<br />
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When Black bloggers, for example, are in agreement with white supremacist groups on a matter of science so significant as the belief in race, then these diametrically opposed parties both need to wonder why the agree one something so fundamental but find everything else the other groups believe to be repugnant. If you are a Black person who believes in the existence of "race", you need to ask yourself why you agree with white supremacist groups on a question so fundamental. <br />
FrancisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-79169414740272569762010-12-15T15:17:00.000-08:002010-12-15T22:57:06.745-08:00Is The Duncan Hines-Associated Brown Cupcake Advertisement "Racist" or Color-Aroused Antagonism?<object height="300" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v0BeSz5LRCY&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v0BeSz5LRCY&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br />
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Many whites and Blacks will ask themselves whether the above video is "racist", and whether it is an example of Duncan Hines "racism". First, let me say that I am not convinced that the above ad was even made by Duncan Hines, but others will surely investigate that. Eater.com says it's for real, and has even identified the director and some of his other commercials in notoriously poor taste:<br />
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<a href="http://eater.com/tags/cupcakes">Cupcakes</a>, once a delightful source of sugary indulgence, later a cliched trend much derided on blogs like this one, have sunk to a new low: racial controversy. A video for Duncan Hines' Amazing Glazes has <a href="http://motherjones.com/riff/2010/12/duncan-hines-amazing-glazes-cupcakes">angered viewers</a> for its depiction of, uh, <strong>cupcakes in black face</strong>. Racist cupcakes? Facing <a href="http://www.thesource.com/articles/34116/Hip-Hop-Cupcakes---Racist%3F-Foolish%3F-Or-Both%3F/?thesource-prod=bgjqvqm6d8t8t0r7jq2lb2pnf2">criticism</a>, Duncan Hines <strong>pulled the video</strong> from YouTube. But we managed to get a copy of the video, below. Judge for yourself:<br />
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<blockquote><div class="post-kicker"> <b><span class="extended"> <a href="http://ht.ly/3nVMa">Here's a link to the commercial that Duncan Hines pulled,</a></span></b></div><div class="post-kicker"><b><a href="http://ht.ly/3nVMa"><span class="extended">hosted at another website. >>></span></a></b> </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="post-kicker"><b><a href="http://ht.ly/3nVMa"><span class="extended"> </span></a></b> </div><b><a href="" name="more"></a></b><b><img alt="hip-hop-cupcakes.jpg" height="400" src="http://eater.com/uploads/hip-hop-cupcakes.jpg" width="385" /><br />
<span class="credit"><em>Duncan Hines' Hip Hop Cupcakes. [Photo: <a href="http://www.duncanhines.com/newsletters/hip-hop-cupcakes/">Duncan Hines</a>]</em></span></b> <br />
<b></b></blockquote><blockquote><b>It should also be noted that this is not the first time director <strong>Josh Binder</strong> has been criticized for creating questionable advertising. In the past, he has filmed <a href="http://vimeo.com/14941792">an ad for Western wear</a> that features a cowboy lassoing up two ladies, and another that <a href="http://www.binderbender.com/JoshBinderPortfolio/MOVIES.SamuryeShowdown.html">spoofs samurai movies</a> with loaves of bread.</b> </blockquote><br />
To make a decision about whether the above cartoon is "racist", whomever it was that made it, we would first need to agree about the definition of "racist". There is no more agreement among Americans now about what constitutes "racism", even after fifty years of continuous effort.<br />
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Let's ask another question instead. Is the above advertisement an example of antagonistic color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior? For example, was the video conceived with an awareness of its color content? I don't think anyone will assert that the makers of this ad were unaware that chocolate is brown, or that the chocolate frosting has been used here to radically change the color of the cupcakes. We are inherently discussion color here.<br />
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Chocolate frosting is often brown, so that in itself does not cause a problem. But when dark-brown monkey-like talking faces are added to the frosting, we have to ask ourselves, "Is there ideation here that is associated with brown skin color?<br />
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When anyone takes a vanilla-colored cup cake and turns the surface brown they are acting on color-aroused ideation, unless the change of color is an utter accident, which is clearly not the case here.<br />
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It's quite apparent here, when these animated brown faces begin to talk, color-associated ideation is at hand. Color exists. The <i><b>nature</b></i> of the color-aroused ideation can be debated, but the fact that there is color-aroused ideation cannot be debated. The advertisement is about coloring cupcakes brown. That behavior cannot occur without color-aroused and associated ideation. When you turn something that was vanilla-colored into something that is deep brown colored, that is indicative of color-aroused ideation. (If you paint your car blue, that is indicative of color-aroused ideation as well.) <br />
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Once we agree that color-aroused ideation is present, in an ad that is inherently about color, we need to identify the nature of the color-aroused ideation. The ideation seems to be that, "It is funny when cupcakes turn monkey-faced, begin to talk and allude to old stereotypes about Black people."<br />
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What is the substance of the color-aroused ideation, when cupcakes turn brown and then have monkey-like lips? Are these dark brown monkeys just funny brown monkey faces, or are they an allusion to Black people and to white people's history of drawing Blacks with enormous outsized lips, enormous eyes and idiotic expressions?<br />
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Does some emotion enter the picture after the color-aroused ideation that is inherent in the ad? The people who prepared and published this video appear to engage in mirth, which is a sense of funniness that causes people to laugh--if they see the humor. The makers of this video experience funniness when they see this, and they experience mirth. The ideational premises in this video are that Black people look like monkeys or can be made to look like monkeys. In addition, there is the ideational belief that laughing at brown monkeys that look like caricatures of Black people is funny.<br />
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Here, we have color-associated ideation that led to color aroused emotion and behavior, i.e. the quite intentional presentation of these monkeys in a way that alludes to the presentation of Blacks as monkey-looking that goes back to the earliest superiority and white people's humor in the United States and elsewhere. One only need compare these images to others from the nineteen-forties to see that these images historically have been used to debase Blacks while laughing at us at our expense. The inhuman characteristics of the monkey-faces intends to dehumanize all Black people, by associating these inhuman monkey-like talking cupcakes with a caricature of all people whose skin is brown or who are members of "the Black People".<br />
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I think the above paragraphs have succeeded in demonstrating that the advertisement arouses and reflects ideation about color and about skin color, when the talking monkeys have brown skin. (There are red, white, gray and yellow monkeys in nature, but the makers of this cartoon chose dark brown as the color for the monkeys.) Moreover, the production and publication of this video demonstrates a belief that ridiculing Black people is an acceptable and even preferable form of humor, and an acceptable way to arouse mirth and ridicule in the watching public, since there were so many other ways they could have used chocolate on these cupcakes other than making talking semi-human dark brown monkey faces of them.<br />
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All of this color-aroused ideation and emotion would have made no difference to Black people and the public in general, but for the behavior of producing this commercial and placing it on the airwaves. What we see here are the three individual components of what others call "racism": (1) ideation (ridiculing monkeys and Black people will be humorous) which ideation leads to the (2) emotion (of feeling funniness and mirth, in this case); and then, finally, (3) the behavior of putting a video together on the basis of this ideation and emotion, which brings us to the entire scope of the tripartite problem: color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior.<br />
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If we asked whether the above was "racist" we would never come to a consensus, because we haven't even come to a consensus about what "racism" consists of. However, when we look to see whether there is color-aroused ideation, there clearly is. The color-aroused emotion of mirth is clearly intended to be aroused, and perhaps many other emotions about which I could only speculate. (Discussions of color-arousal are scientific discussions where there is no place or use for speculation.) Finally, the making of this commercial and its placement in media channels is the behavior that will cause Duncan Hines so much grief, even if Duncan Hines does not turn out to be the responsible party.<br />
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The value of looking at the three individual components of color aroused ideation, emotion and behavior is (1) that we are able to look for each component scientifically, and (2) it is possible to realize that it was not in the ideation or the emotion that got Duncan Hines got into trouble here, but it was (3) the behavior of placing this video for public consumption.<br />
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As many of us have realized, people of all skin colors engage in ideation and emotion with respect to people of their own and others' skin colors, but much of this ideation and emotion is not obvious until it manifests itself in color-aroused behavior. The persistence of color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior may be due to the difficulty humans have in their efforts (if they make any effort) to prevent their ideation and emotion from becoming the basis of their behavior.<br />
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It may also be that whites are playing a game with Blacks by insisting that they cannot determine what is "racist" and what is not. If so, then using more empirical and objective measures may spoil the fun of a lot of color-aroused antagonists who claim not to know that their behavior is "racist".<br />
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Is the above video "racist"? I have no desire to wander into such an intellectual thicket that ends in an impenetrable morass, because I have already determined, in a methodical way, that the above advertisement is an example of antagonistic color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior. That alone is sufficient reason to wish that the video be off of the airways.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-77114638429301875132010-12-11T18:56:00.000-08:002010-12-11T18:56:10.595-08:00There are no "Races" or Sub-species within the Human Species.The human species definitely exists, but scientific genomic research has shown that there are <a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html"><b>no "races" or subspecies</b></a> within the human species. Since DNA human genome mapping shows that there simply are no subspecies among the human species, it is therefore obvious that there are no subspecies who could be identified by their skin color.<br />
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Genomic scientists <a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng2150.html"><b>have discovered</b></a> that, in many cases, people of different colors have more in common genetically with people of other skin colors than they have in common with others of the same skin color.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml">Science has proved</a></b> that the hypothesis of the existence of "races" or subspecies among humans is an anachronistic and anti-empirical, anti-scientific fallacy. <br />
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Just as previous generations of humans insisted that the world was flat until the flat earth hypothesis was demolished by empirical experience as well as celestial science, the days of "race" as an scientific hypothesis are over. Now, "race" remains only as a superstitious believe propounded by those who don't understand science and those who benefit by insisting that scientific discoveries have no relevance in pseudo-scientific conversations.<br />
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"Race" surprisingly, is also defended by Blacks and other minorities who are afraid to lose their cultural identities associated with skin color. They know or seem not to realize that their sociological culture can be loosely associated with their skin colors even though "race" does not exist. We don't need the fallacy of "race" to explain to us why Americans argue so much about skin color. Americans argue so much about skin color partly because of the discredited but constantly cited fallacy of "race."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4993273906274465082.post-70429734663850079002010-11-21T19:27:00.000-08:002010-11-21T19:28:53.602-08:00Skin Color Groups Exist, But Distinct "Races" Are a Disproved FallacySomeone recently brought to my attention her preoccupation as we see radically color-aroused white antagonists seeking to redefine the term "racism" so that only Blacks can be "racists." <br />
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The simplest way to counter these people and leave them with their jaws on the floor is to insist that <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>"racism" does not exist because "race" does not exist.</b></a> "Race" is an anachronistic disproved hypothesis about the meaning of mere skin color. <br />
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What science has discovered is that <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>skin color means . . . skin color</b></a>. So just as our status now allows us to walk of the same sidewalk with whites and not step down when they come along, so our status as members of the human species enables us to hold our heads up high and reject those who would consign us to an imutable ghetto called "the black race". <br />
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We acknowledge that our skin is brown, but we reject the notion that our brown skin makes us members of a separate sub-species of human beings. All <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>scientific evidence</b></a> now shows that there are no distinct subspecies of human beings within the human species.<br />
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It certainly is astonishing that most of the current ideas about "race" were discovered before DNA has was discovered. So, when forced to choose, will we accept the notions consistent with findings from the present DNA age, or will we steadfastly hold onto unchanged notions of "race" that were conceived over four hundred years ago, before DNA was discovered? Is it possible that new DNA human genome evidence is consistent with old beliefs that "races" that could be distinguishes from each other based on skin color? <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>Read <i>this</i></b></a> and decide for yourself.<br />
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The word "race" is simply the product of a very successful historical campaign to imbue mere skin-color with all sorts of other meanings about lack of intelligence, laziness, sloth, susceptibility to violence and criminality, etc. <br />
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The next time someone tries to talk about your or their own "race," acknowledge that your skin color is different but challenge them with the new scientific evidence that "race" does not exist now and it never existed in the past. Colors DO exist in nature and in science, but "races" exist only in our own minds.<br />
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People have been discriminated against based on their skin color and cultural ethnicity. We all know that if your skin was suddenly white, then the police would be less likely to stop you and your kids, i.e. for "driving while Black." The "cue" the officer uses to stop you is not your "race" (he can't see your DNA") but rather your skin color.<br />
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Skin color antagonistic behavior has nothing whatever to do with "race", because a police officer can't see your DNA from fifty yards, except to the extent that your DNA makes your skin brown. We don't need the word "race" to describe something so simple.<br />
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When Blacks begin to insist, year after year, that <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>"race" simply doesn't exist,</b></a> then it won't matter bit when whites try to redefine "racism." The word "racism" itself will be consigned to the scrapheap of historical ignorance and irrational "flat earth" concepts, just as you no longer hear people discussing "phrenology" today, although it was very much discussed 150 years ago.<br />
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The simple fact is that we are discriminated against because our skin is brown and our votes are sought out but also feared because we are part of a "skin-color-group" that is fairly cohesive in its voting, and that group is called "Black people."<br />
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Whenever Black or white people use the word "race", we are perpetuating the <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml"><b>scientifically disproved fallacy </b></a>that there are distinct "races" among human beings. We are effectively lying to ourselves and to others because we believe that the political ends or group-cohesiveness goals justify the anti-scientific means. <br />
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The history of science shows that science-related ideas that have no basis in science will eventually be rejected and ejected from science. Can anyone remember when it was believed to be absolutely necessary to separate "Black blood" from "white blood" in blood banks? If you can't remember that, it is only because that patently false misconception was conclusively rejected and ejected from science before you were born.<br />
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Eventually Blacks and whites will agree that science has proved that "races" don't exist. I predict that <i><b>THAT </b></i>will be the way in which "race" is redefined over the next fifty years. We will all eventually acknowledge that skin color groups exist, but "racial groups" do not.<br />
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FrancisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0