It's Time to Admit It: There's No Such Thing as 'Race': Time to put the term "racist" to rest.

Townhall ^ | 08/15/2019 | Laura Hollis

[wardaddy]

We have plenty of posters here who agree with this

They call me racist

At least once a week

If race doesn’t exist

How can these Freepers call me racist ?

[wardaddy]

Dinesh is confused on race to be honest

He clams the end of racism

Yet race baits over my part of the nation (south) like no other

I’ve always thought he’s got skin tone issues from India and British days

[wardaddy]

You can’t have your cake and eat it too

[wardaddy]

Thank you for common sense

Some folks here take platitudes like a quaalude

It’s numbing

[dfwgator]

It’s not race, it’s culture.

The former you cannot choose, the latter you can.

[colorado tanker]

Interesting to me is that those who call themselves liberal or progressive implicitly accept the definition of black used by the slaveowners and Jim Crow segregationists. Any black blood makes a person black. They don't use the word octoroon, but they accept the concept. Obama is half white and half black, but he, his family and his fellow "liberals" accept without question that he is black. There are prominent athletes who appear to have more white ancestry than black, but all agree they are black.

So, just who is it who has the implicit bias in this country?

[EEGator]

I sure hope I can have a child that looks absolutely nothing like me...

[wardaddy]

So the black race has problems anywhere in the world it exists ....and it does I’ve lived worked and traveled pretty much all of it

And it’s all their cultures fault?

Their culture is a product of their inherent capabilities not the other way around although it does become the dog chasing his tail at some point

I blame the geographic isolation the black race lived in until slavers transported them around the world

It’s hard to catch up en masses in the blink of an eye human history wise and sub Saharan blacks weren’t the only isolated peoples

Yet blacks in America live under this illusion that their ancestry weren’t really tribal near Stone Age hunter gatherers just a few hundred years ago but rather had vast civilizations that created all manner of advancement and culture as you call it and that white people came and stole it all and set them back into 75 average IQ land

But then switch to Kunta Kinte and shucks that tribal was actually idyllic with days spent with mom happily making cassava pancakes and dad teaching you how to hunt and fish on the veld

We are a product of whom we descended from

And arguing that is denial

Some get lucky some not so lucky

Like a football team play the best with what you got and western civilization and America gives everyone from stupid to smart the best chance of success

And to be fair it’s not just black

Compare Latino culture

Latino culture with less Amerindian DNA is more successful

Take all your oriental or Asian nations

Which succeed most....the ones with a more Chinese or Japanese basically living in them

Is that racist?

God made us equal to him....I’ll go along with that...but we aren’t equal in capabilities here

[wardaddy]

And before anyone reminds me..Koreans

The Chinese Japanese hybrid

[servantboy777]

Who made the races?

When you drive through a city, do you not see Hispanics, Asians, Italians, Blacks, Indians and so forth congregate in small communities?

By in large, folks that have the most in common with one another tend to congregate, whether at home, work or play.

It is not racist to do so...unless you are a white male.

Folks need to realize, stupid people do stupid things...no matter the race. Being proud to be white is not racist anymore than being proud to be black.

Furthermore, if folks of the same race choose to watch programs that speak to them because of skin color, culture or whatever should be allowed to do so w/o criticism.

Good grief, I’ve seen programs for decades that are ALL black...even named “Blackish” or BET.

Folks need to get over themselves. Hate is hate. Racism is only a dirty word as ammunition to hurl at someone because you hate them. Period.

I for one am very proud to be a Southerner, Christian, Anglo, Conservative, Texan, American. I don’t hate anyone and I like hanging out with other folks I have things in common with...even if it happens they are white.

[USCG SimTech]

There are different BREEDS of the one human race. Lots of “mutts” now, though.

[EEGator]

https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html

Just massive coincidence...

[wardaddy]

Indeed and Israel is lower because of they included Arabs who make up 25-30%

Naysayers will also say IQ tests even if the universal sorts of tests not based on contemporary knowledge but more on pattern and shape and other cognitive markers are indeed a social construct as well

Hence they always have a reply to deny what they see around them

It’s just an excuse to not have to accept the harsh reality of the human existence

I’m not bitter that my Scots Irish Anglo southern ancestry is likely not as smart as Jews or high Chinese or Germans

I do the best with what I’ve got as did my hardscrabble kin going back to plowshares and pikes days of lore long ago did long ago

[wardaddy]

I’m curious who tested Mongolia ..lol

I’m suspect on that one

My cousin married a Mongolian girl

Schwin

Kinda like the bicycle

She’s very pretty and clever

Mongolia has a lot of semi tribal folk but they always had a rigid communist compulsory education platform

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Racist the new N word.

[EEGator]

I’m of Irish descent. Stubborn, gift of the gab, and tough can get one pretty far in life. I do engineering as well, so I’m not a total idiot...

[EEGator]

Testing IQ in the most sparsely populated country in a high desert. That sounds like fun...

[farming pharmer]

I sure hope I can have a child that looks absolutely nothing like me...

And not like the mail man either...

[sport]

In modern times only two political parties have fixated on race: The National Socialists Workers Party of Germany and the Democrat Party of the United States of America.

[Sergio]

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