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 Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik (Re: Mohamed Omer)
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Racism, unfortunately exists everywhere and no matter what your tilt on this topic is i'm sorry to say this but everyone is racist to some degree!
America, a nation built from a "cultural melting pot" proves this. It's been over 230 years since its independance, and with a population of 303,483,000, is by and large the largest mixed population, still there are cultural divisions everywhere you go. Iraq is another example with its inter clan fighting and divisions. This story is just another of many...
Everywhere you go around the World, there are pockets of Cultural or religious groups. I'm looking forward to a time when somebody will actually stand up and be counted and admit that multi-culturalism is a nice idea but actually doesn't on the whole work. Instead of forcing this idealism we need to look at ways of promoting tolerance and to find ways of living side by side with agreed differences
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The fact about human society is that humans like other animals seem to like to structure their living group arrangements on hierarchies. And this applies even to the barely cogntively aware bee
Only rational humans would know how to avoid such animal-like modes of thought and just judge phenomena purely in terms of their agencies
SUDAN AND COLOUR
The LOL self-deflating about lineage and Northern Sudan is that less than 2% of Northern Sudanese have any Arabian--i.e. from West Asia and the Arabian peninsula--according to batteries of genetic tests especially on the male populations. Northern Sudanese are almost 100% of the African male lineages(Y Haplogroups) of E3a and E3b. So if some Northern Sudanese male with an acquired Arabic name that seems to go on and on--which he proudly proclaims as evidence of Arabian descent or even directly descended from the Prophet himself--declares himself to be different stock from his southern neighbours[and by the way Southern Sudanese are arguably the darkest people in Africa on a strictly percapita basis]then he would be quickly disabused by the stark truth-telling of DNA analysis
All this is confirmed by any casual glance at any haplogroup map of Africa. For those unfamiliar with this just google "African haplogrop map"
Concerning the attributed statements on race to Muhammad, one must be cautious here because after all Muhammad had no taperecorder when he recited the Koran and it was supposedly compiled many years after his death. So there is no real confirmable evidence that he actually recited or said what is attributed to him
Perhaps one of the earliest statements on skin colour and its association with human worth both moral and intellectual is that of Aristotle--the Greek master philosopher. He wrote in PHYSIOGNOMICA some 2,500 years ago: "Too black a hue marks a coward as is the case with Egyptians and Ku####ies(today's Northern Sudanese?), so too white a complexion as in the case of women. The best colour is that intermediate between those 2 extremes. As in the case with lions who have a a twny colour"
Of course, in all of this it should be recognised that Arabism and its "racial aspects" as exemplified in the lead essay is not unlike French, British and Portugese colonialism in Africa. After all, Arabism entered North Africa and most of West Asia through colonial force of arms then imposed its language and religion on the various populaces in much the same way that the other colonialisms did
Just as the lands invaded, colonised and settled by the French, British, Spaniards and Portugeses built up compex "race" hierarchies based on carefully calibrated quantities of European DNA in ones genome so too this kind of social structuring has been found in Arab language societies
All of this though does bring in lots of money for those who sell skin lighteners and relaxers for Africanoid hair in North Africa and West Asia
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| The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:19 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:28 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:32 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 07:47 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:07 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:21 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:30 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:44 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 08:49 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-05-08, 09:02 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-06-08, 03:59 AM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-06-08, 02:12 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-06-08, 02:18 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-08-08, 06:19 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Mohamed Omer | 03-08-08, 06:37 PM |
| Re: The Guardian :A paler shade of black by The Sudanese Nesrine Malik | Deng | 03-05-08, 08:40 PM |
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