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HAHA! Legendary Salsassin interviews Dr. Keita and guess what?!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] Focus on context. Straight up, Keita doesn't use the terms like "black", "white", "negro", "caucasoid", "negroid", et al. He has made it a policy of his own. Like I noted earlier, even in his earlier papers, these terms are often cited in quotation-marks, generally citing the context used by previous authors, wherein he would proceed onto make his commentary on them. Jaime's interview, as I observed above, comes from a fairly dogmatic-angle right off the bat. For instance, as observed by others earlier, he opens up the interview with saying that many people generally describe Keita as an "Afrocentrist", closing the claim with a cynical chuckle. This is where even Keita asks him for the identity of the claimants, noting that he doesn't keep up with internet forum discussions and things being said about him, and by whom; he was off to a good start by asking so, and this is what he should have insisted on doing for the remainder of his exchange with this Salsassin character, particularly in the third segment wherein he purports to make a suggestion for "Afrocentrics" to zero in on PN2 clade distributions outside the continent. Naturally, "Salsassin" purposefully avoids answering Keita's query about the identity. The Salsassin character proceeds with relaying his hearsay "Afrocentric" claims to Keita, and I noticed, that in the first segment Keita was fairly silent and just chuckling through it all, as though he was trying to refrain commentary on hearsay. What "Salsassin" was doing is not only hearsay, but also using an interrogative method that is called "leading" in legal quarters; in other words, framing a statement--with a definite assumption and conclusion already in it--as though it were a question, and then compelling the respondent to chime in on it. "Salsassin" also tactfully slips in the word "light" skin color when talking about KhoiSans, in his effort to make an environmental and bio-evolutionary link to the situation in coastal northern Africa. By doing so, as he has done on this forum, with regards to Norton's paper and the [i]tropical African[/i] "Sandawi", on which he got intellectually trashed for his ideological inconsistencies, he can turn around and say that "light" skin is not "black". He tries in vain to equate "light" skin with "white", without having to actually say the latter directly, and knowing fully well that Keita isn't psychologically far out there so as to mistake KhoiSan for "whites" instead of "blacks", were he to proscribe to such terms. Being "light" and being "black" isn't necessarily mutually exclusive of each other. The word "light" is also a vague [i]subjective[/i] term, and lacks scientific usefulness without additional specificities attaching meaning to the word. It is simply a relative term. All in all, I agree with observers who reckon that Keita was most likely trying to plug his coming publication to any audience that "Salsassin" gets for his postings, as well trying [i]to be polite[/i] by not refusing to comment and/or press him hard for what amounts to mostly hearsay claims that Keita himself (as he in fact openly acknowledges) cannot independently verify the veracity of. The interview itself doesn't dent anything or reveal anything further than what has already been noted/promoted here by long-standing visitors to this site like myself. As a matter of fact, it reinforces them. This interview is anything but a success to "Salsassin". The most he can do with it, is bragging rights--i.e. about being able to set up an interview with Keita, and possibly pumping up a personal ego thereof; nothing more or less. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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