Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Ron Kephart (rkephart@osprey.unf.edu)
9 Dec 1996 19:34:56 GMT
Bob Whitaker <bwhit@conterra.com> wrote:
>
> I have to keep reminding clones of their own party line. The line now
> is that there were 200 million Africans transported, [...]
My figure of 10 million Africans transported as slaves to the New
World between abaout 1500 and 1850 or so comes from Bonham C.
Richardson's The Caribbean in the Wider Context. I don't have the
exact date or publisher on hand, but I will furnish them upon request.
> The senior senator from Hawaii, an anti-white of Japanese descent,
> stated that there were 50 million people in the present continental US
> when the white man arrived and wiped them out.
> Please do your own homework on your own line.
I don't know where the Senator got his information; a much more
realistic figure would be between 1 and 3 million. Ray Scupin
(Anthropology: a Global Perspective 2/ed, p. 425) reports 1.2 to 2.6
million; the source given for this is D. Ubelaker (1988) "North American
Indian population size, A.D. 1500 to 1985", in the American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 77:298-94. For the record, the population of
native North Americans in 1985 was about 1.5 milion; this was up from
around 250,000 or so at the time of Woundtherefore, how can "whitey"
1890).
And, by the way, I don't have a "line." Believe me, I'm way too far
left to be following any so-called "PC line".
> Most of this is devoted to the same old point: whitey should be
> destroyed because he deserves it.
You are missing at least two points. Modern anthropology suggests
that there is no such thing as "whitey", except as a social/cultural
phantasy; same is true of "blacks", "asians", etc. So what are you
worried about? You can't be destroyed if you don't exist!!
Second point: it is not "whitey" that needs to be blamed; it is,
instead, the racist and ethnocentric ideologies backing programs of
action that have been carried out over the centuries in the name of
religious doctrine (capitalism, christianity, whatever). True enough,
western Europeans have tended to be the ones with the military and
economic power to carry out these programs. But, I point out again,
they are perfectly capable of carrying them out against each other
(have you heard of Northern Ireland or "the former Yugoslavia"?). To
find examples of non-Europeans behaving similarly, just check out
Rwanda, or East Timor. People do not do evil because they have "white"
or "black" or whatever genes; they do evil because they can be talked
into believing that doing evil is the right thing to do.
Ron Kephart
University of North Florida
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