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Thanks for taking the time to share your insight Maybe. I currently reside in Indian territory in Oklahoma. One of the things I learned in the book I'm reading. Is that when oil was discovered on the land, it was not uncommon for a white man to marry an indigenous woman who "owned" the land, that woman would "disappear" shortly after the marriage and the land would be taken over by her white male husband. That of course is not to suggest that is your history. The problem is the situations are complex and wrought with a tremendous amount of evil and violence. The impact of genocide will be felt for as long as there are people who know the history.

No nothing you posted really mad too much. At the end of the day you believe there are multiple races as defined in our genetics. I don't believe that because the science tells us something different. I understand your position on the death of mission of race based upon the social construct. However I don't like the term even though you enjoy it. I think it's causes more problems than it solves.

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...and no we will not be discussing love in this session -- maybe next week. I'll be on her program again February 19th.

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@Pioneer1 you need simple answers sometimes the truth is just more complicated. You want to really try to understand by looking at a sentence or two from the dictionary definition of one form of the word. I read all the definitions and I read the articles it pointed to for more information context. Since I know you don't like to probe very deeply into subjects I'll share one of the links https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human why don't you read that entire article it explains race pretty clearly. if you don't come away with a different understanding then it is what it is. Again these are your sources not mine. Finally, I see one really profound difference between you and I. I felt about race as you do now, But once I read the current information I easily put away my prior beliefs. You on the other hand seemingly dig deeper, go through linguistic contortions to "win" a the argument. It is a religious battle for you, facts, logic reason, science -- none of it matters to you.

What I'm trying to understand is what you feel I'm disagreeing with. That would me reply. The title of the post, "Anthropologists Claim Ancient Semites Were Black (Negro) People." In my circle, that is common knowledge and I have not challenged the premise of this thread.

At @Tazarah help me out here and be more specific. Provide a claim "provided by these collegiate/scholastic institutions" that I disputed. If you want me to provide proof of a single race. I previously provided over the years here and this can easily be found by any one will a trivial amount of effort. Is there anything else that you'd like me to address specifically?

This is purely a figment of your imagination and not supported by anything said in the article. We can't have a serious debate if we can even agree the information being communicated with words. Maybe this is the problem. It is not about winning -- at east not to me. I would much rather have my knowledge advanced even if it means that what I previously believed was shown to be false. So if your during the course of debate or argument enlighten me to something I did not previously know I would welcome this. In fact that is what I'd call winning. Racist white men created racial categories to justify the oppressions of the so called "non-white" people. We know now that despite the phenotypical difference in people that generically we are one race barely indistinguishable from each other.

Yes the term race is a sloppy term. there is no genetic test for race and two people cannot determine the race of any given individual with any level of confidence. I can look at someone and say they're black and you can look at someone and say they're not black it's just a sloppy silly term and I wish we would stop using it. @Pioneer1 they're white people in this country that have more in common with you genetically and culturally than another black person from the continent of Africa. Using purely racial terms to describe people is dumb.

Fascinating article.

That was a good segment. I saw the Ma Rainey film; Davis was excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing the Black female Braveheart project she is working on. Hard to believe she's only 55. I would have thought she was older as long as she's been working.

My dear Brother @Pioneer1 here once again either you simply did not read the article or you failed to comprehend it. If you had both read and understood the article you would not have used it to prove your point indeed the article completely backs up what I have been saying all along. Why I invest all this time trying to help you understand this is really beyond me maybe because I know you are sincere but you are really too grounded in the belief racial categories that when you read something that goes against your belief you still see it as supporting your argument?! I understand why @Delanohas given up, because it is very frustrating to debate you because you can't be reasoned with and facts don't mean a damn thing. This is a direct quote from the article: "Second, the study reinforced the idea that race is a social construct rather than a homogeneous genetic or ancestral category. After adjustment for differences in life experiences the differences in mortality were not statistically significant." This should come as no surprise to anyone that understands that the racial categories are bullshit. Again no one is arguing that the people who you understand to be black are dying at a higher rates -- the reasons for that are obvious and described in the article.

I'll print and read the article later, then get back to you.

Nope why should be adopt their junk science? Well I don't believe in Satan. so I care as much about what he supposedly says as I do the Santa Claus. No, it does not. They are using sloppy language. The of "race" to describe group of people is dumb and obscures reality. The health disparities have nothing to do with so called race. That is simply the reverse of the nonsense people were spouting claiming that Black people were immune to Covid. The adverse out comes are a function being poor, in underserved communities, age, having poorly treated preexisting conditions, and other factors. An old poor white person with asthma and diabetes is more susceptible to succumbing Covid-19 than a wealthy young Black person. Does that make sense?

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Yes, but it is just factually inaccurate.

I think the paperwork we all fill out to classify our so-called racial differences is a waste of time. It also reinforces the notion phenoypical differences are enough to explain differences in human characteristics. Wouldn't it be better to use ethnicity nationality or even religion to explain differences in people? We have ample evidence to prove that trying to categorize people into different racial categories based upon their physical characteristics is impossible. We also know there is no genetic test to determine one's race because it is a purely subjective and artificial construct not based on genetics. @Pioneer1, for example claims he has all this proof of scientific evidence for race but he cannot produce any evidence of any test that one can administer to determine one's race. This is of course because there is only one race! We've been going over this very simple concept for years. it's mind-boggling that you all are so stubborn and unwilling to accept a simple fact.

Thinking is not for everyone.

Really? Johnson is a magnificent physical speciman. I'm not surprised women would find him attractive. Imagine the grief that a white woman must have risked dealing with him. How would you describe Jack Johnson hopefully is not using the lens of your eurocentric masters. Does he strike you as brutish, a thug, what?

So then you do understand that the so-called concept of race is purely a social construct. Do you reject Brazil's designation of Pele's race?

From a scientific perspective that is false. From a cultural perspective sure. Why you guys fail to make the distinction and insist on conflating the two is perplexing, particularly in a culture in which those phenotypical differences are used to suggest one so-called race is superior than the other. This is exact flawed logic which justifies the reasoning of white supremacists.

Well @Pioneer1 neither man claimed to have the answers. One was probing with questions and the other was giving his thoughts. I mentioned one concept that Carr mentioned that I found interesting. I even watched a second video in which he elaborated a bit more on the idea. Are you implying because of they're whiteness that they can't have interesting ideas, or are unworthy of listening to? Did you not find the point I thought interesting, interesting? Did you even watch the video?

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