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Racism wasn't around at the beginning
morbidenigma:
WOW
the lengths some people will go to in making up information to win an argument.
The Overfiend:
There was no racism in the time of Adam and Eve because there were only those two people in the garden of Eden, as Eve was made from Adam's rib we can assume they had similar superficial genetic characteristics like hair and skin tone. It was only after they both ate from the Tree of Knowledge that they became to think in new dynamic and creative ways: they discovered shame, jealousy and eventually racism followed when Adam's descendants started calling themselves the 'Chosen People' therefore implying that anybody else is inferior.
Jesus later came along and said 'no you got it wrong, we are all God's children'.
This upset the 'Chosen People' because it threatened the psychological foundation that had sustained them throughout the centuries, so they petitioned the local authorities to kill that man...
virtuoso:
Just a thought and correct me if i am wrong, but isn't it too simplistic to say we all came from Africa? Africa is a continent and particularly North Africa, there are a light of light skinned people, in Egypt you couldn't exactly call them black etc. So isn't it possible that the white people who migrated lived in a part of Africa which was not inhabited by what people think of as todays black people and therefore there was no kicking out. Surely the premise that they were relies upon them all living together but Africa is absolutely huge and there are vast areas of land which were uninhabited, or inhabited by only a few people.
The Overfiend:
The 'people' that came from Africa and spread out across the world were not 'people' in the sense of we as homo-sapiens today.
Around 5 million or so years ago early hominids spread out across the globe, from there Man continued to develop in different regions, his genetics adapted to the environment, leading to the diversity of human characteristics we find in people from different regions today.
Some of us in isolated areas of the globe perfected and developed ways of living in our environment, like indigenous peoples way of living remained unchanged for thousands of years. They had no need for the wheel or to develop sophisticated weaponry.
In other areas of frequent interaction between people, the exposure to different people through culture and war helped spur and necessitate innovation in thinking.
Fraxxx:
--- Quote from: StreetsAllSalute on December 16, 2009, 03:38:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: Momo on December 16, 2009, 03:17:57 PM ---so why do white people tell colored people that we should be grateful we don't face racial persecution as if racism was around from the beginning of humanity.
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when have the white people announced this?? what did the coloured people say??
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LMAO! But on the real, however racism occurred, nowadays people of every color are guilty of it. Add tribalism and religious prejudices and all that shit and you'll clearly see that mistreatment for superficial reasons is no exclusively white behavior.
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