Scientists Find DNA Change Accounting for White Skin (White People "Greatest Cause of Strife"!)

Washington Post ^ | 1/28/11 | Rick Weiss

[SatinDoll]

LOL!!

The genetic existence of genes that cause dilution of melanin are quite well known and exist in other animals, such as cats, dogs, and horses besides human beings. Breeders use the “fact” of dilution in their breeding programs all the time.

I don’t have to make-up stuff: telling the truth looks good enough.

[Bellflower]

What do they ultimately want, the elimination of all whites with gulags and death camps where they only admittance criteria is that you are white?

[Bellflower]

Then we whites can't help all the bad things we do because it is genetic. We should therefore be a protected class with special protections and privileges. Whatever we do that is wrong is not our fault and we should then be allowed to do it without blame or recrimination. We need a million white man's march and insist on our rights as a protected class.

[Bellflower]

So.....black people evolved from monkeys and white people evolved from black people?

I’m just saying....based on their logic.

Since they think that we are evolving and not devolving through mutations doesn't that, in there scheme of thinking, put white people further up the evolutionary tree and make whites superior?

[Bellflower]

It has been known as a biological fact for about 30 years now that all humans are born genetically black, but some of us carry a recessive gene for dilution of melanin, resulting in a lighter skin coloring.

You said recessive gene not mutant gene. Demonstrating a recessive gene does not mean that you are born the dominant gene. Recessive genes are actually as strong as dominant genes. I have never heard this "fact" about all babies being born genetically black and tried to google any information concerning this "fact" and could find nothing even remotely akin to anything like it. Please give reference for your "fact". Also there are many characteristics that are generally different between whites and blacks other than just melanin.

[Bellflower]

......but the mutation causing depigmentation is an advantage in cloudy northern Europe because it benefits vitamin D absorption.

Has it been proved or just theorized that depigmentation, having less melanin, is a mutation or is it caused by a recessive gene that is merely recessive not mutant?

[Domestic Church]

“But NONE of us...”

Race is a non issue, not even a sub subspecies, a blonde, fair skinned person of Norwegian background could have the same mDNA as someone from the Sudan who has african hair and skin or a person from the mid east with arab features. I’m 100% celtic but share genes with 40% of Japan.

[SunkenCiv]

Ooo-ooo-ooo. [scratches himself]

[SatinDoll]

The recessive gene is a result of mutation. So are blue eyes.

[haroldeveryman]

I read some place that the white race has a “recessive gene” to depigment. I think the source was from the 1950’s. What I read was probably just theory because it would have been only a few years after Watson and Crick worked out the molecular structure of DNA by x-ray diffraction. (There’s a great BBC miniseries about this).

With the recent Human Genome project, vastly more is now known.

[colorado tanker]

greatest cause of strife

Oooh! He'p me, he'p me! Somebody he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me!

[SZonian]

So, I guess all of the EEO, Affirmative Action, minority preferences and diversity bullcrap can be tossed.

We’re all black now, just that some are blacker than others.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

The term cracker refers to the one who cracks the whip, not the edible food stuff which goes nice with spreadable cheeses.

Actually, it refers to neither. Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. John McWhorter have both done yeoman's research into various linguistic peculiarities associated with race, and both have some interesting things to say about such terms.

It turns out that "cracker" comes from the root that is also the root of the term "wise-crack". It is an Irish saying (loosely "to crack wise") that was transferred to African American communities post emancipation (since many poor immigrant whites and freed slaves shared the same occupations, especially in the Mid-Atlantic and South). The term actually denotes a loud-mouthed or obnoxious individual, and was used in Ireland long before it was used here. Blacks picked up this term and began to use it to denigrate their Irish (i.e., white) counterparts, from whence it became generalized to whites as a whole.

An interesting side note: what most people consider "ebonics" actually derives partly from a linguistic pattern also borrowed from Irish immigrants, in this case ones who had settled in a suburb of London before continuing (for various unpleasant reasons... or as it would have sounded in their mouths "rais'ns") on to the United States. Language is a funny thing...

[SunkenCiv]

;’)