NoctisEqui
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- Oct 2, 2006
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Just found this website, taking a (naive) shot at personal catharsis...
"White" is not a race, it is a color. There are very pronounced and unmistakable ethnic differences among, for instance, a Pole and Irishman and Russian.
The bible recounts Sheba coupling with Solomon, and--myth or history--surely enough, Ethiopians have Semitic features and tan skin. No, race is not homogeneous within Africa, either.
I wonder if this aberrant conception of "white race" is merely the product of a vacuum in your own personal identities? Because you don't know the difference between a Magyar and Irishman, you conflate all paler skin into your imagined "race"? To fill the void of your ethnic heritage?
In any case, if your ancesters were Americans for two centuries, your ethnic heritage is probably indecipherable: completely lost, by constant "mixing"! And if you trace your heritage back a millenium, you will be shocked at the diversity you discover.
Paleness is not genetic likeness. "White" heavyweights are not of Western European ethnic stock, and Americans on this website are probably ethnic Western Euros. Now look at Klitschko's browbones, look at his nose: not like the French and English who settled America! Not like you!
Ultimately I agree that systemic prejudice favors black skin over white skin in sports scouting--though it's incredibly naive to assert that that favoritism is deliberate, as believing in "black" athletic "supremacy" is clearly a product of socialization (think of American history!) In reality, however, people are people, each of them inimitably complex.
Even you are complex, though this phenomenon is pretty transparent. Aren't you here because you want to assert (pathetically): "I am not inferior! Look at how not inferior I am! Blacks don't deserve to outperform whites per capita in the NFL!"
Personally, I've never felt the need to defend my "whiteness", because I've never doubted my own self-worth. No one is superior to me. Perhaps one day you'll all feel the same.
"White" is not a race, it is a color. There are very pronounced and unmistakable ethnic differences among, for instance, a Pole and Irishman and Russian.
The bible recounts Sheba coupling with Solomon, and--myth or history--surely enough, Ethiopians have Semitic features and tan skin. No, race is not homogeneous within Africa, either.
I wonder if this aberrant conception of "white race" is merely the product of a vacuum in your own personal identities? Because you don't know the difference between a Magyar and Irishman, you conflate all paler skin into your imagined "race"? To fill the void of your ethnic heritage?
In any case, if your ancesters were Americans for two centuries, your ethnic heritage is probably indecipherable: completely lost, by constant "mixing"! And if you trace your heritage back a millenium, you will be shocked at the diversity you discover.
Paleness is not genetic likeness. "White" heavyweights are not of Western European ethnic stock, and Americans on this website are probably ethnic Western Euros. Now look at Klitschko's browbones, look at his nose: not like the French and English who settled America! Not like you!
Ultimately I agree that systemic prejudice favors black skin over white skin in sports scouting--though it's incredibly naive to assert that that favoritism is deliberate, as believing in "black" athletic "supremacy" is clearly a product of socialization (think of American history!) In reality, however, people are people, each of them inimitably complex.
Even you are complex, though this phenomenon is pretty transparent. Aren't you here because you want to assert (pathetically): "I am not inferior! Look at how not inferior I am! Blacks don't deserve to outperform whites per capita in the NFL!"
Personally, I've never felt the need to defend my "whiteness", because I've never doubted my own self-worth. No one is superior to me. Perhaps one day you'll all feel the same.