What race are you?

[st_swithin]

Critical Boston Mass, huh?

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I think anyone who is interested in someone's colour is suspect for racism.

Hell no. I only got to thinking that every time I thought about an Apolytoner, I had this image in my head of a pale white dude, between 14 and 25 years of age, who drinks too much Coca Cola, and watches South Park. Then I decided that there must be something wrong with this mental image, and set about finding out. I'm not the least racist, and I strongly object to being called one

Asmodean

[Az]

AH is a troll, never take him seriously.
nice bump, btw.

[Asmodean]

Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't have let him get to me

And thanks for the props

Asmodean

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Asmodean


I strongly object to being called one

Asmodean

Thread like this put you on my suspect list. Its always the same people who start these threads.

[Whaleboy]

All over the place...

White on my mothers side, Jewish (Mesopotamian) -> Hispanic -> Indian on my fathers. At a push, and on my appearance, hispanic.

[Az]

dude, Jews aren't mesopotamian. Even the ancient Israelites weren't. There probably were a couple of warlords that came from mesopotamia to control this land, but most of the culture, the language, the ancient alphabete, and whatnot are canaanite.

[Whaleboy]

The Jewish "race" as it were, is an offshoot of the Caucasians that developed in the area now Iraq/Iran.

These are the people that became the ancient Israelites. My dads side of the family fought alongside the Muslims (as many Jews did.. ironically) in the middle ages, when expanding accross North Africa and up into the Iberian peninsula, where they remained until the late 1400's when the inquisition kicked out the Jews. Ended up in Portugese port of Goa in India.

[Az]

that's very correct, but that happened in a prehistoric era, before the establishment of Jericho. Maybe the biblical story goes back there, MAYBE, but I somehow doubt it.

oh, and Goa?

[Whaleboy]

Azazel: If you are taking the Israelites to mean a people in biblical times, then you are correct. I'm talking antropologically (is that a word? ) and a rough guess would be 10'000-15'000 years (circa end of ice age).

Incidentally, there is evidence that the "Noah's Ark" story has its roots in a catestrophic flood caused when the Med flowed into the Black Sea at the end of the last ice age, about that period. Taken literally, that could mean biblical times.

[Az]

we're in full agreement on both accounts.

[Whaleboy]

When was the last time that happened??

[Az]

when discussing libertarianism, of course.

[Starchild]

Human. My pigmentation level is quite low.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
And you don't believe in the co-incidence that both the Niger river and the people of the N-word origins from Africa? Is Niger the aboriginal name of the river or something invented by white imperialists?

"******" is a slangy derivative of "Negro." It didn't come into usage until the 18th century.

"Niger" is Latin for "black," of course, but the origins of the name "Niger" for the areas of Africa are thousands of years removed from the word "******," and there's certainly no conscious connection.