Raceology

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Comment by N/extra on August 7, 2012 at 3:00pm

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Comment by Ta Riq Vladartz on February 25, 2011 at 8:44am

Wah! LLOYD LACY gives a blasting first impression. Being raised in Germany I think of an African American National Socialist as rather funny.. What does the local White Aryan American National Socialist movement say ? Have you heard of Concentration Camps ? Admirer or not Hitler wouldnt have hesitated to put the "Untermenschen" right there. Think of it. I detest nationalism but have to admit that I'm quite more attracted to girls of colour. Well genetically Homo Sapiens developed somewhere in north-east Africa so we're all Africans (yes some of the 1st and 2nd wave of emigrants mixed with cousin neanderthaler) and only recently geneticists proved that the white folks are a mutation of the original coloured ones. Grinnnnn So yes I favour the scientific based thinking that we're all family (incl non coloured ones) and promote it among the discordant African societies to become more unanimous in order to oppose North American and European economic strategies. I consider race as an invented term - by Carl Linne the taxonomist coz he lacked better expression to distinct between alike looking beings to categorize them into their supposed proper place in the tree of life.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Race_(classification_of_humans)&redirect=no

Comment by Lloyd Lacy on October 22, 2010 at 12:05am

Me I'm a proud Mixed African American National Socialist. I admire Hitler and "some" of the things he did for his people and country. I believe in marrying within "people of color" meaning non white including Asians. Thing is African Americans to me are all biracial or mixed. We are a mixed race people. Some of us pass for Native American, Asian, Black, Hispanic and we have family members that do it. Even if you look at pictures of Ancient Africa, we come in all sizes shapes and colors. I believe we are ALL beautiful. And it's time we stop hating on one another and start loving each other more. I feel we are better than most other African Americans because we have survived through all the self hate and bullshit that comes with being black. We have managed to keep our identity and think for ourselves.

Comment by Black Lily on July 2, 2010 at 12:43am

My bad....forgot the link. Love this provocative piece Race-Talk did deconstructing a fashion editorial in Interview Magazine...called "RACE IS SEXY?"
http://www.race-talk.org/?p=4375

Comment by AfroCuban on July 1, 2010 at 11:37am

Ill have to check out race-talk

Comment by Black Lily on June 30, 2010 at 8:37pm

There's a really thoughtful magazine/blog called Race-Talk developed by the Kirwan Institute. Really well-written pieces. Just thought I'd share, if anyone ever wants to check out the work they're doing:

Comment by imani on March 11, 2010 at 7:29pm

can the word nigga/nigger/negro be excepted as a term of inderment for todays generation, or do mostt people still see it as a racial slur even if it is directed in a way not to be rude?

Comment by Fashionfreak on March 10, 2010 at 3:57pm

oh and i don't consider myself anything but black but i do feel like i have gone through identity crisis growing up culturally.

my mom is from jamaica and so is her whole family. my dad is from trinidad and his mom is from venezuela while his dad is from grenada. i was born here in the US and grew up around a variety of races. to people who aren't black they think i'm african american since i'm from here but to african american's i'm caribbean but to caribbean folk i'm just american. at the same time a lot of the hispanics i come across consider me 'one of them' because my dad's mom is. it's a complex situation.

Comment by Fashionfreak on March 10, 2010 at 3:46pm

hello peeps just want to share something i saw on oprah yesterday about tracing roots.

so there is this new show on tv where countless celebrities trace their roots to find out who they are. long story short they showed a few clips of eva longoria (mexican), emmit smith (african american), meryl streep (caucasion) etc...

so it turned out that eva was born in mexico with mexican parents and so forth. but her dna revealed that she is caucasion, african, and japanese....it was also revealed that she is a distant cousin on japanese musician yoyoma according to tests.

emmit smith's ancestry revealed that his ancestors were white and somewhere along the line one of them raped a slave thus bringing forth a biracial child and from then on other blacks were brought into this mix and some generations later bringing well him into the world.

another really cool discovery was that dr oz (muslim) and a famous jewish guy has the same ancestors

there were tons more but those striked me the most....very intriguing.

Comment by Faisal Awadallah on March 9, 2010 at 5:38pm

@DJ Ceiba

I agree with you fully, in my Black studies course, our teacher played a tim wise clip and many of the white people didn't agree with it or didn't know how to take it. It's hard to hear the harsh truth.

I know what you mean about only being able to learn about ourselves in college, Our culture and history should be taught to us at an early age. which brings into the picture separate schools for African Centered thought. Many people don't agree with this idea but why not have schools that are taught in an Afrocentric way of thinking? All the schools run by the government and private corporations are teaching the same Eurocentric ideology that is dominating the world.

I am half black and half italian and its interesting to hear you say it was the biracial children that were asking questions of interest on race. Race is something biracial people deal with daily in a different way than being just one race. Its confusing that people have to be labeled black or white and not be themselves.

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