The Tony Romo thread has been hijacked now, but I want to continue the argument.
Basically, it is about whether Tony Romo is white or not.
All of the arguments on either side all are based on different definitions and classifications of white.
First, we've got guys like Sark635something who argue that he is white because he is of white complexion. To them, race-at least in the case of Tony Romo and the NFL-is based largely on appearance.
On the opposite side, we've got JD074 who argue that Romo isn't white, primarily because he has two Mexican grandparents that appear to partially come from native(Amerindian) stock.
To him, I think white is a race that consists of people whose entire heritage is of groups of very specific tribes including the Aryans and their sub-groups, and probably a few others. The fact is that eventually everyone could eventually be classified as non-white. Most evidence says humans came from east Africa in the riff valley and migrated, and then evolved into different sub-species and races. There are lots of gaps in this theory, but I think it is the most plausible.
Now, when people migrated to Europe and their skin mutated to be light, you might say that these people evolved to become the white race and that all its members have all of their ancestors be these first Europeans. These people had great civilizations on the Danube, became Kurgans in Russia, and became the Basque people in the Pyrrenies(excuse my spelling right now). But wait, this doesn't include people who are descended from the Phoenicians, the Sicilians, the Hungarians, and the Aryans(Celts, Franks, Germans, Angles, Saxons, Scots, whatever). The modern European is the product of race mixing amongst these people.
So what is race about then? Race is two sided I think. Genetics and Mannerisms. It has to do with how close a certain group of people's genetics are. There is no fixed line for that. But also, it comes down to vice and virtue. That is what sports are really all about, virtue. The Sicilian and the Hungarian have assimilated and adopted a culture that is "European" so they really are white by my definition; someone who has chosen to embrace European customs and ways and mindset almost like
a Robert E. Howard novel. So theoretically, if a black kid desperately wanted to become white, if he did enough he could.
Don't confuse white "virtue" with good or bad virtue though. A mexican/black mixed kid who listens to rap music and wears a do-rag clearly doesn't have any "white virtue". He is not necessarily bad.
Holy sh*t, this is way tougher to do than I thought.
Basically, it is about whether Tony Romo is white or not.
All of the arguments on either side all are based on different definitions and classifications of white.
First, we've got guys like Sark635something who argue that he is white because he is of white complexion. To them, race-at least in the case of Tony Romo and the NFL-is based largely on appearance.
On the opposite side, we've got JD074 who argue that Romo isn't white, primarily because he has two Mexican grandparents that appear to partially come from native(Amerindian) stock.
To him, I think white is a race that consists of people whose entire heritage is of groups of very specific tribes including the Aryans and their sub-groups, and probably a few others. The fact is that eventually everyone could eventually be classified as non-white. Most evidence says humans came from east Africa in the riff valley and migrated, and then evolved into different sub-species and races. There are lots of gaps in this theory, but I think it is the most plausible.
Now, when people migrated to Europe and their skin mutated to be light, you might say that these people evolved to become the white race and that all its members have all of their ancestors be these first Europeans. These people had great civilizations on the Danube, became Kurgans in Russia, and became the Basque people in the Pyrrenies(excuse my spelling right now). But wait, this doesn't include people who are descended from the Phoenicians, the Sicilians, the Hungarians, and the Aryans(Celts, Franks, Germans, Angles, Saxons, Scots, whatever). The modern European is the product of race mixing amongst these people.
So what is race about then? Race is two sided I think. Genetics and Mannerisms. It has to do with how close a certain group of people's genetics are. There is no fixed line for that. But also, it comes down to vice and virtue. That is what sports are really all about, virtue. The Sicilian and the Hungarian have assimilated and adopted a culture that is "European" so they really are white by my definition; someone who has chosen to embrace European customs and ways and mindset almost like
a Robert E. Howard novel. So theoretically, if a black kid desperately wanted to become white, if he did enough he could.
Don't confuse white "virtue" with good or bad virtue though. A mexican/black mixed kid who listens to rap music and wears a do-rag clearly doesn't have any "white virtue". He is not necessarily bad.
Holy sh*t, this is way tougher to do than I thought.
