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bravenak

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5. The word racist doesn't mean that and never did.
Tue Nov 25, 2014, 08:37 PM
Nov 2014

It always mean race based hatred. Bigotry can include that but there are other elements to it. You seem to believe in eugenics.
People still believe the tripe about different races being less or more intelligent than others. That is eugenics which is a fake science that has been debunked. Take me for instance. I have hever been to a school where I was not in the top 1 percent academically and as far as my Intelligence Quotient is concerned. Eugenics tell us that is impossible. I am black. I am somehow different. If that is true, does that make me somehow just naturally better than 99 percent of white people? I went to white schools and competed against them from the same books with the same access to materials. We are different because we are seen as different and expected to be different. Obstackes are thrown in our way to keep us on a lower rung, that help to prove the difference that doesn't actually exist. We are all homo sapiens sapiens. We are all cousins. Our cultures and socialization makes us different, not our skin color or what race we consider ourselves.

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