Challenges, challenges

Steve Mizrach (SEEKER1@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Mon, 24 Oct 1994 09:29:59 +0000

First, Rushton challenges us to find Africans with bigger heads than Asians.

Face facts, he tells us. Why the challenge, we ask?

Now, Hicks challenges us to find "melanin-deprived" societies oppressed by
"melanin-enabled" societies.

All I am wondering is, can Hicks (like Rushton) please go beyond this
rhetorical challenge and offer his hypothesis as to what causation is
involved?

Mr. Hicks, what I want to know is:

1. Does melanin deprivation cause violence? What are the physiological
pathways involved?

1a. Conversely, does the presence of melanin in the skin somehow improve an
individual's conscience or peacefulness?

2. If not, and your supposed datum is in fact correct, tell us WHY you
think it is. Instead of challenging us to refute it, please tell us what it
is about those lacking melanin that also inclines them toward oppression,
racism, and hatred?

You could have put this in a more congenial way, viz. the observation of
many anthropologists that many societies are stratified by melanin caste
systems -- e.g. India, where the darker you are, the less your social
status often is -- and attempted to look for some SOCIAL rather than
BIOLOGICAL mechanisms but somehow, I sense (like Rushton) controversy
rather than congeniality was your aim. Not that I mind controversy; I often
try and create it; but some kinds (such as Holocaust revisionism) lead to a
bad taste in my mouth, and yours does.

Yours,




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