From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 23:04:14 MST
I've heard that recent findings in South Africa cast doubt on Rift
Valley origin. Conceivable other findings will cast doubt on the
entire continent. Then of course there's the We-are-all-Alpha-
Centaurians contingent...
jm
On 6 Feb 2001, at 6:51, Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> From: "Terry Donaghe" <Terry@Donaghe.com>
>
> >Most all of my black friends (or African Americans if you prefer)
> >live with being pulled over quite often. I think it even gets to
> >the point where they feel that it's just something you have to
> >deal with and they expect it. One such friend was astonished when
> >I told him I'd only ever been pulled over once. He get's pulled
> >over quite a lot, as does his parents, friends, etc. And these are
> >all middle to upper class people. They just happen to have the
> >wrong skin color.
>
> This sad phenomenon is do to the tremendous lag time between the
> discovery of a scientific fact and it's eventual incorporation into
> human culture.
>
> The fact is that every piece of scientific evidence has proven that
> we are all one species, and that we originated in the Rift valley
> area of what is now modern day Kenya.
>
> Every Homo-sapien's on the planet is of African origin.
>
> We are all literally Africans.
>
> I prefer the term American-African myself, where you are is more
> important than where you came from.
>
> Don't let my pale skin fool you, and don't let your's fool you.
> We are all originally from Africa.
>
> Proud descendant of a member of the first diaspora.
>
>
> Brian
>
> Member:
> Extropy Institute, www.extropy.org
> Adler Planetarium www.adlerplanetarium.org
> Life Extension Foundation, www.lef.org
> National Rifle Association, www.nra.org, 1.800.672.3888
> Ameritech Data Center Chicago, IL, Local 134 I.B.E.W
>
John Marlow
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:05:40 MST