The Haters Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i saw the line before about obama getting elected not being black progress, but white progress. i'd imagine that's true.
what gets me most about race discussions....
well, we're all the same race. just different shades of color. and those shades are all due to evolution...

http://phys.org/news97857326.html

one of the uncomfortable truths i guess that makes some reject evolution as being a hoax, or untrue. hard to claim superiority when one finds out he shares the same genetic code as the 'different' guy he has decided to hate for no good reason.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/l...olution/where/

there was an article that discussed that chinese scientists thought that the chinese had come from a separate line of early humans. nope, we all share the same genetic markers, codes, we all came from a common ancestor.

One of the books I recorded on anthropology this year talked about that, too- it put the term "race" in quotes because anthropologists don't recognize "race" as an accurate way to classify. Ethnicity can be somewhat more useful as a term because then culture factors in and we're all products of culture. As the book put it, so, at what point does a skin tone go from being "white" to "black"? Humans come in every shade from very pale to very dark. Race certainly gets used as justification for social stratification, though.