tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post7382436771623800347..comments2023-06-21T10:49:13.928-04:00Comments on ...weird crayon in a world sized box of crayolas...: WTF!!! Black kids pick cotton while white kids watchBLACKkittenROARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999284309980570052noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-89107989730393216792009-11-28T22:01:21.817-05:002009-11-28T22:01:21.817-05:00Francis, it would seem that many Black people are ...Francis, it would seem that many Black people are far more comfortable believing in the fallacy of biological race than in true science. A woman who's blog I frequent recently did a post asking if race really was just a social construct, because she believed it was far more, but wasn't sure. I posted a link to ur site in her comments, and she was very appreciative for the information. <br />She is one of the very few that I've encountered that is open to discussing the possibility that biological race isn't real. I mentioned it once on another site and was immediately labeled by the blog author as naive and an idiot for even attempting to make such a suggestion. <br />The problem is people don't understand that race does not need to be biological in order for it to be an issue. They see calling it a social construct (what it actually is) as dismissive, and assume that anyone who makes the claim is attempting to ignore very real problems.<br />Its very frustrating. People don't realize what they cling to is exactly what stands in the way of progress. I'll make sure to add the widget to my site.BLACKkittenROARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999284309980570052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-23075100405317808942009-11-28T19:31:29.922-05:002009-11-28T19:31:29.922-05:00Relating with your post again: When I was in law ...Relating with your post again: When I was in law school a special invitee professor came to our "Law and Difference" course and told us that whites would not discriminate against Blacks because it would be counter to their economic interests. So, I stood up and asked him why, during Jim Crow, white restaurants refused to serve Blacks even when discriminating against Blacks reduced (sometimes by half) the potential market for their products? <br /><br />He didn't have ANY answer to that question. History proved that his thesis was wrong, and it just required that someone (me) stand up and point it out.<br /><br />In fact, research has been done in which researchers asked whites if they would want a benefit, e.g. an increase in pay, even if a Black person would also receive the benefit. Many whites said they would prefer that neither of them receive the additional benefit. (I can't remember where I saw this, but anyone interested would not have to Google for long to find it and many other such studies, I'll bet.)<br /><br />I had a professor in undergrad Caribbean (sp?) Anthropology who believed that this India writer immigrant to Trinidad was an authority on Trinidad and how silly the local culture was. When he asked us to make a presentation to the class, I handed out a dozen articles that said that his favorite author on Trinidad was depressed crank who saw everything through his lens of relative privilege and disdain.<br /><br />Then, I skipped all the rest of his classes until the semester ended, took the final exam and got a "B" or "B+". The teacher didn't hate me. He just believed that Caribbean people were a bunch of jerk offs, and my family comes maternally from Jamaica.<br /><br />Have you ever listened to the great :( Elton John's song, <b><a href="http://www.eltonography.com/songs/jamaica_jerk_off.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">"Jamaica Jerk Off"?</a></b> I felt like an idiot when I realized what this song meant after actually buying some of Elton John's albums when I was a child.Francis Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862777385923656061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-22291625272598112752009-11-28T19:31:29.923-05:002009-11-28T19:31:29.923-05:00Oh damn, can I relate with you on so many levels! ...Oh damn, can I relate with you on so many levels! First, I have <b><a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2009/11/press-release-us-human-genome-project.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">a new easy-widget that takes readers from the widget to a page at the human genome project which says that "race" doesn't exist.</a></b> <br /><br />While I was making this point recently to a Black blogger group, a Black blogger told me that if I was going to go on insisting that biological race doesn't exist then he would prefer that I not e-mail him anymore. He said he didn't want to hear about "obsession". So, now disseminating science is an obsession. It seems to me that the people who use the word "race" 40 million times a year at Google in the USA alone are the ones who are obsessed with what essentially is an age-old propaganda hypothesis which only recently could be completely disproved by peering into the entire human genome.<br /><br />Will "race" be a highly debated issue in the 2010 census when people are requested to assign themselves according to categories that have been proved scientifically meaningless? The fact that "race" doesn't exist is no less newsworthy than new absolute scientific proof of the existence or nonexistence of God would be. The fact that "race" doesn't exist is more scientifically newsworthy in America than finding a second moon orbiting the planet Earth would be. Just look up the words "race" and "moon" at Google to see which word America uses more, which is a good measure of what we think is most important.<br /><br />This is one issue on which I think a lot of field negros have inadvertently found themselves working in and for the Big House.<br /><br />Anyway, the more people insist on ignoring something, the more I increase my creativity about exposing it. The <b><a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2009/11/press-release-us-human-genome-project.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">widget I made last night</a></b> says:<br /><br /><b>"Skin Color Exists; Black and white subspecies (races) of humanity are a false and anachronistic hypothesis Learn more. (Click through to the Human Genome Project)"</b> This is basically the same fight you had with your law school professor. <b><a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/skin-color-exists-biological-race-doesnt" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Here's a link</a></b> to where you can find the HTML for the widget that leads readers to the DOE Human Genome Project page that says that biological race is disproved hypothesis. That page, in turn, links to another page that says the belief in biological race has been very damaging historically.Francis Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862777385923656061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-7746385464553135562009-11-26T15:43:04.053-05:002009-11-26T15:43:04.053-05:00Oh no, the teacher I was talking about wasn't ...Oh no, the teacher I was talking about wasn't a University prof, he was a high school teacher. Which kind of makes it worse, cause despite the fact I thought I knew it all back then, 17 year old children are very impressionable.BLACKkittenROARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999284309980570052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-57315106537057852512009-11-26T12:42:39.656-05:002009-11-26T12:42:39.656-05:00I get where that historian was coming from, but th...I get where that historian was coming from, but the fact that these kids are too young to FULLY grasp it all is very dangerous. What if the White kids actually enjoyed and laughed at the Black kids? That IS what kids do. It just could've been handled better.<br /><br />That incident with the theatre show is not TOO surprising to me. I'd have actually liked to see what that would look like. But, I say if a non-Black person cares about this issue and wants to come and see... let them see. But everyone is entitled to see the unbiased view of history.<br /><br />Wow, your law professor is SO out of touch! Teaching it as though it were fact? I'd seriously question is reasoning on that as well, and I'm glad you said something.<br /><br />What an age we live in, my dear.K. Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07345153318451567247noreply@blogger.com