Black boxer bias
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yeah but you never seen skillspaythebills ,He might be built like an ox and
instead of knowing karate he might know karazy.Last edited by Barlog; 09-08-2007, 11:08 AM.Comment
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Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. He was the son of a hand loom weaver, William Carnegie. His mother, Margaret, was a daughter of Thomas Morrison, a tanner and shoemaker. Although his family was impoverished, he grew up in a cultured, political home.
Many of Carnegie's closest relatives were self-educated tradesmen and class activists. William Carnegie, although poor, had educated himself and, as far as his resources would permit, ensured that his children received an education. William Carnegie was politically active and was involved with those organizing demonstrations against the Corn laws. He was also a Chartist. He wrote frequently to newspapers and contributed articles in the radical pamphlet, Cobbett's Register edited by William Cobbett. Among other things, he argued for abolition of the rotten boroughs and reform of the British House of Commons, Catholic Emancipation, and laws governing safety at work, which were passed many years later in the Factory Acts. He promoted the abolition of all forms of hereditary privilege, including all monarchies.
Another great influence on the young Andrew Carnegie was his uncle, George Lauder, a proprietor of a small grocer's shop in Dunfermline High Street. This uncle introduced the young Carnegie to such historical Scottish heroes as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy. He was introduced to the writings of Robert Burns and Shakespeare. Lauder had Carnegie commit to memory many pages of Burns' writings.
George Lauder was interested in the United States. To Lauder the U.S. was a country with "********ic institutions". Lauder's influence on the young Andrew Carnegie would be later reflected in Carnegie's views of America. Carnegie was known later in life to consider the U.S. as the role model for ********ic government.
Another uncle, his mother's brother, Tom Kennedy, was also a radical political firebrand. A fervent nonconformist, the chief objects of his tirades were the Church of England and the Church of Scotland. In 1842, the young Carnegie's radical sentiments were stirred further at the news of "Ballie" being imprisoned for his part in a "Cessation of Labour" (strike). At the time, withdrawal of labour by a hireling was a criminal offense.
Andrew Carnegie emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1848 at the age of 13.
Andrew Carnegie's direct descendants still live in Scotland today. William Thomson CBE, the great grandson of Andrew, is Chairman of the Carnegie Trust Dunfermline, a trust which maintains Andrew Carnegie's legacy.Comment
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This statement is inconceivably ignorant, please pick up another book, as the ones you've been reading has totally mind-****ed you from any practical knowledge of evolutionary anthropology. While the same racial connotations of modern society adheres to different concepts than early **** sapiens, in which these concepts did not apply, to suggest that the first indigenous **** sapiens sapiens who emerged from equatorial Africa were not black is an idiotic presumption and a spit in the face to all evolutionary anthropologists who have taught this subject to the general public for years. Jablonski notes that indeed it would have been necessary for modern humans to possess substantial levels of melanin in order to protect from the UV drenched equator in early inner Africa. Rogers confirms these postulations.Most serious evolutionary anthropoligists believe that the first proto-humans emerged from Africa. But they do not say that these proto-humans were black. In fact asserting that white people "came from" black people is both erronious and offensive to black people. Do you mean to suggest that black people are less evolved than whites? Of course this is not the case, black and white people are equally evolved. We are all the same species at the same stage of evolutionary development. Humanity's precursors are no longer with us.
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By 1.2 million years ago, all people having descendants today had exactly the receptor protein of today's Africans; their skin was Black, and the intense sun killed off the progeny with any whiter skin that resulted from mutational variation in the receptor protein - Rogers, 2004
In fact, white skin/people are no older than 12,000 years according to a recent study: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten.../316/5823/364a
The fact of the matter is that no, todays say, African-Americans are not direct (by lineage) ancestors of White Americans; however, blacks are generally more diverse genetically, indicating a deeper ancestral origin and connection with early modern humans (who in turn were ancestors of whites). To suggest anyway that anyone is less "evolved" merely because they possess some older lineages is absurd since 99% of mutations are either neutral or detrimental, and the beneficial mutations which are apparent were selected for due to environmental reasons, yet even these benefits were accompanied by detriments. Which is why white skin is not suited for tropical environments. That is in principle considered "evolution", but not "enhancement", which people erroneously equate with evolution. In summation, the first people were indeed black africans, and any suggestion to the contrary is rooted in ignorance.Last edited by sonofisis; 09-08-2007, 11:38 AM.Comment
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The real question is where did you study anthropology (?) as you seem to be totally ignorant of the discipline in question to dispute that view. And co-sign, I doubt very seriously that you'd be talking this wreckless in front of any black people who were right in front of you. We don't play those race games, and we don't give a **** about your KO percentage where I'm at, you'll get hospitalized pretty smoothly, no boxing gloves or fists needed.
Go ahead and play tough guy over the net though, we know how that works, it's no biggy..
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 [1] [2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist, critic, political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.
Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 to British parents[4] in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India. There, Blair's father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked for the Opium Department of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), brought him to England at the age of one. He did not see his father again until 1907, when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie, and a younger sister named Avril. He would later describe his family's background as "lower-upper-middle class".
At the age of six, Blair was sent to a small Anglican parish school in Henley-on-Thames, which his sister had attended before him. He never wrote of his recollections of it, but he must have impressed the teachers very favourably, for two years later, he was recommended to the headmaster of one of the most successful preparatory schools in England at the time: St. Cyprian's School, in Eastbourne, Sussex. Blair attended St Cyprian's on a scholarship that allowed his parents to pay only half of the usual fees. Many years later, he would recall his time at St Cyprian's with biting resentment in the essay "Such, Such Were the Joys". However, in his time at St. Cyprian's, the young Blair successfully earned scholarships to both Wellington and Eton.
After one term at Wellington, Blair moved to Eton, where he was a King's Scholar from 1917 to 1921. Aldous Huxley was his French teacher for one term early in his time at Eton. Later in life he wrote that he had been "relatively happy" at Eton, which allowed its students considerable independence, but also that he ceased doing serious work after arriving there. Reports of his academic performance at Eton vary; some assert that he was a poor student, while others claim the contrary. He was clearly disliked by some of his teachers, who resented what they perceived as disrespect for their authority. During his time at the school, Blair formed lifelong friendships with a number of future British intellectuals such as Cyril Connolly, the future editor of the Horizon magazine, in which many of Orwell's most famous essays were originally published.Comment
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