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Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Bob Whitaker (bwhit@conterra.com)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:34:59 -0500
Peter Nosko wrote:
>
> Bob Whitaker <bwhit@conterra.com> wrote in article
> <328F778F.7542@conterra.com>...
> > frank@clark.net wrote:
> > >
> > > I moved this over from a thread called "Whites...the NEW native
> > > Americans."
> > >
> > > Allan Matthews (amatthews@cybercom.net) wrote:
> > > : In article
> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961110011950.6880A-100000@steroid.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
> Maverick <bretroth@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
> > > : >On Sun, 3 Nov 1996 flashm19@mail.idt.net wrote:
> > > : >>
> > > : >> I believe it is time for the whites in america to take thier
> rightful place
> > > : > as
> > > : >> native americans.
> > > : >
> > > : >funny you should say that. In Nevada, they recently dug up a
> 10,000+yr
> > > : >old body of a native American and it turned out to be European
> genetically
> > > : >rather than the Asian-Indian...
> > > : >
> > > : >The scientists said that this body predated the Indian migration
> here.
> > > : >
> > > : >looks like I'll have to start marking that native American section.
> > > : >
> > > :
> > > : Gee, you'd think that something like this would be big news. Just
> where did
> > > : you find this little piece of information? Not that I think you're
> making
> > > : this up or anything...
> > >
> > > It was big news, as least in the scientific community. What happened is
> > > that an archeologist dug up a skull in North America that looked quite
> > > Caucasoid to him and dated it very early, but not earlier than the
> first
> > > Indian migrations. It was in the _New Yrok Times_.
> > >
> > > However, Federal law appears to let Indians keep their ancestor's
> remains
> > > and rebury them if they wish. So the tribe in question (which had only
> > > lived in the region for 500 years) claimed that this skeleton was one
> of
> > > "their" ancestors. Upshot: whatever Federal agency is responsible for
> > > interpreting the law ordered that the tribe could rebury the skull and
> did
> > > not have to allow any further scientific testing to corroborate the
> > > skull's race and to more precisely date it. As I recall the margin of
> > > error of the preliminary dating was a factor of two.
> > >
> > > A couple of weeks later the Tuesday "Science News" section of the NYT
> had
> > > a major article on the Indian Fundamentalists, which is exactly the
> word
> > > used. I looked in my pile of clippings for the piece, since I know I
> saved
> > > it, but it wasn't in that particular pile.
> > >
> > > Oddly enough, at least in terms of what gets said on this thread, there
> > > was no one saying that races don't exist, that race cannot be inferred
> > > from a skull, and other such things. Anyhow, it is an exciting
> discovery,
> > > and I hope the archeologist snipped off some hair or whatever for DNA
> > > testing.
> > >
> > > Frank Forman
> > > frank@clark.net
> > > "It is a far, far better thing to be firmly
> > > anchored in nonsense than to put out on the
> > > troubled seas of thought" - John Kenneth Galbraith
> > > --
> >
> >
> > One of the ng's here is anthropolgy. Isn't it a surprise that not
> > one single Scientifi Anthropologist Who Proves Race Don't Exist even
> > mentioned this at all.
> > Is anybody surprised?
> >
>
> Yeah, right. Sounds just like a fish story-- "It was
> <----------this---------> big, but I threw it back."
>
> Anyone got the name of the Anthropologist that dug it up?
>
> --
> Peter Nosko
> pete@technologist.com
> Race is a Pigment of the Imagination
Finsten, after not bringing the subject up at all, since it was
un-PC, did name the anthropologist after she was called on it by
Forman. To our unanimous surprise, she declared he was untrustworthy,
thereby producing the 100,000the consecutive politically Correct
statement of Scientific Anthropoly.
You clones must now go drom "it didn't happen" to "it didn't matter".
As usual.
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