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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Punos_Rey: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: All was fine for hundreds of years. [b]Physical anthropologists have categorized skin colours without a fuss[/b] for a long time. Then came along some Afrocentric trolls on the internet in the last decade who want to politicalize "black" to cover all skin phenotypes observed across the entire African continent. :rolleyes: [/QB][/QUOTE]The F***#!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: You call THIS categorizing skin colors without a fuss?? [IMG]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41L9o8MgxeL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg[/IMG] "(Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, 1853–1855) by Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau, was a book arguing there were differences between human races, that civilizations decline and fall when the races are mixed and that the white race was superior. It is today considered to be one of the earliest examples of scientific racism. Expanding upon Boulainvilliers' use of ethnography to defend the Ancien Régime against the claims of the Third Estate, Gobineau aimed for an explanatory system universal in scope: namely, that race is the primary force determining world events. Using scientific disciplines as varied as linguistics and anthropology, Gobineau divides the human species into three major groupings, white, yellow and black, claiming to demonstrate [b]that "history springs only from contact with the white races." Among the white races, he distinguishes the Aryan race as the pinnacle of human development, comprising the basis of all European aristocracies. However, inevitable miscegenation led to the "downfall of civilizations"." [/b] You call THIS categorizing without a fuss?? [QUOTE]In 1745 John Green published in London with great success the New General Collection of Voyages and Travels on this wave of increasing interest in foreign travels. Of this four volume work, one volume dealt exclusively with Africa. Abbe Prevost later translated this work into French, mainly due to personal financial hardships. The French translation of Greene's work encompassed seven volumes, to which Prevost added eight more volumes consisting of his own collections and insights. Prevost's fifteen volume set was published between 1746 and 1759 entitled Histoire generale des voyages and quickly became incredibly successful. (Prevost's work was posthumously expanded to twenty-one volumes.). Although the first edition soon became an expensive collector's item, many could afford the less expensive quarto edition published in eighty-volumes over the period of 1746 and 1789. Not only did major explorers and voyagers such as Montcalm and Bougainville carry Prevost's edition with them across the seas, but it clearly influenced the writings and thought of the philosophes. Buffon, the Encyclopedie (the Opus Magnus of the era), and Rousseau all gleaned most of their information from Prevost and often even plagiarized the Histoire. [3] Prevost's information on Africa, however, was a hodgepodge collection which he had simply taken from previous seventeenth and early eighteenth century accounts and opinions by various authors. His financial motive and subsequent haste in writing the Histoire added to an inconsistency and contradictory view of African peoples. For example, of the West Africans, Prevost writes: [b]"Since they are naturally sly and violent they cannot live in peace with each other. The Europeans who are not safe from their insults can find no better vengeance than to burn their huts and ruin their plantations. On the other hand the Negroes of Sierra Leone are sober... They have more feeling and intelligence than the Negroes in the other parts of the Guinea Coast."[/b] [4] Elsewhere Prevost states: "[b]The Negroes in general are given over to incontinence. Their women, who are no less stirred by the pleasure of the senses, employ herbs and barks to excite their husbands. These vicious customs reign here... But the inhabitants (of the Guinea Coast) are more moderate, more gentle, more sociable than the other Negroes. They do not like to shed blood, and don't think of war unless they are forced to by the need to defend themselves."[/b] [5] Prevost commonly uses this pattern of presenting favorable qualities of a particular group as an exception to the whole of the African peoples. As we noted earlier, European bias against the Africans may derive quite directly from the impenetrability of the African mainland and the resulting mystery/ignorance regarding those peoples. In support of this suggestion we can here point to the interesting fact that those groups of Africans of which Prevost speaks most favorably are in fact those groups with which Europe was most familiar, namely the populations of the northwest coast of the African mainland. Thus Prevost deems the more familiar group as an exception of civility and respectability to the otherwise mysterious remainder of African peoples.[/QUOTE] http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/foutz-racism.shtml You call this fussless???!! :mad: :mad: [IMG]http://www.blacknewsweekly.com/tulsa22.jpg[/IMG] Anyone stupid enough to think this guy has a legitimate leg to stand on vs us "afroloons" can kick rocks, I'm done! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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