Do you bother about skin color?

[ryukenden]

Even though Obama is African-American, I have seen interviews of people who look at him as just a black.

News even said first black President of US and not as first american-african President of US.

Therefore there is a slight bias at least even with media corporations.

[Atom]

I'm not sure if a lot of people realize this or not, but, all people of the earth are related, and our ancestors came from East Africa, so, that means that every person on earth is African first, before anything else, genealogically speaking. This is what the scientists have found. Genomes are being mapped as we speak. A database is being compiled.

[Atom]

In fact, despite the fact that I am a white American, I am actually an African American. This is true for every citizen in America, you are African Americans. Citizens of Italy are African Italians, and so on.

[robmac]

Originally Posted by Atom

In fact, despite the fact that I am a white American, I am actually an African American. This is true for every citizen in America, you are African Americans. Citizens of Italy are African Italians, and so on.

??? what on earth??? now how is that one - are you going down the evolution route of every one originates from africa

I live in the uk and I heard on the grapevine and in my history books that a few americans come from the england

In response to the op's post: In general everyone "bothers" about skin color! its in most peoples make up. I am not racist but if you brought up in a white area bla bla bla you have many years of sterotypical teaching that really cant be unlearned once you become an adult. You see an Asian person and make assumptions on background etc. we all SEE color - you cant look at a black, white, asian, pink, blue etc person and say " no i dont see color ".
We dress, work, play, eat within peer circles and anyone that "looks different" ie color sticks out a mile so YES there is a thing called color. i admit it......perhaps a few more hands up instead of "no, no such thing"


Ah yes one more thing: My wife ( white ) and english, studied american studies a few years ago and spent 6 months at ol mis university ( misissippi ), when she was sociolising with black girls on campus she was 1. told by the black girls " are you taking the p*** out of us by talking to us as you are suppose to be with the white girls" and 2. Told by white students not to mix with the "other girls" and yes it was disgusting

[Atom]

Originally Posted by robmac

??? what on earth??? now how is that one - are you going down the evolution route of every one originates from africa (...)

It's true, robmac, scientists have found this out through human genome mapping, it's a fact that scientists agree that it is highly likely that we all share a common ancestor originating in East Africa. And as I said, the mapping continues and a database is being compiled. Every person they've mapped so far in a study done with all kinds of different races conducted at Grand Central Station in NYC has turned out to be descended from a long line that started in East Africa.

[Atom]

"There are currently two major views of human evolution: the ‘out of Africa’ model, according to which H. sapiens emerged from H. erectus, or a descendant species, in Africa and then spread throughout the world; and the multiregional model, according to which selection pressures led to the emergence of similar advanced types of H. sapiens from H. erectus in different parts of the world at around the same time. Analysis of DNA in recent human populations suggests that H. sapiens originated about 200,000 years ago in Africa from a single female ancestor, ‘Eve’. The oldest known fossils of H. sapiens also come from Africa, dating from around 195,000 years ago (this date was reached in 2005 by the re-dating of remains originally found in Ethiopia in 1967; the previous estimate was 130,000 years). Separation of human populations occurred later, with separation of Asian, European, and Australian populations taking place between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago."

[krahmaan]

Originally Posted by Atom

I'm not sure if a lot of people realize this or not, but, all people of the earth are related, and our ancestors came from East Africa, so, that means that every person on earth is African first, before anything else, genealogically speaking. This is what the scientists have found. Genomes are being mapped as we speak. A database is being compiled.

Atom, you never cease to amaze me! Looks like you've done your research on this one. Many-a-time, this type of information is hard to acquire. But you've done it, good for you. Most people would be afraid to expose these types of scientific findings, because the truth hurts -it's supposed to. So I must say that "you never cease to amaze me."

[Atom]

Originally Posted by krahmaan

Atom, you never cease to amaze me! Looks like you've done your research on this one. Many-a-time, this type of information is hard to acquire. But you've done it, good for you. Most people would be afraid to expose these types of scientific findings, because the truth hurts -it's supposed to. So I must say that "you never cease to amaze me."

Well I had just seen a PTV (educational television) program on it just before I posted that, lol. I also read something similar on it very recently, can't recall where though. Pretty interesting this was. I guess there's some kind of a global race going on to get complete human genomes mapped.

[Atom]

I just spent a damned hour trying to find the name of that program and couldn't. It was on APT/IQ (Alabama Public Television) I'm pretty sure. I really have to pay better attention to this stuff. I want to see it again now. I only caught about half of it.