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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE] Cheikh Anta Diop: [i]If we speak only of the genotype, I can find a black who, at the level of his chromosomes, is closer to a Swede than Peter Botha is. But what counts in reality is the phenotype. It is the physical appearance which counts. This black, even if on the level of his cells he is closer than Peter Botha, when he is in South Africa he will live in Soweto. Throughout history, it has always been the phenotype which has been at issue; we mustn’t lose sight of this fact. The phenotype is a reality, physical appearance is a reality. Now, every time these relationships are not favorable to the Western cultures, an effort is made to undermine the cultural consciousness of Africans by telling them, `We don’t even know what a race is.’ What that means is, they do know what a yellow man is, they do know what a white man is. Despite the fact that the white race and the yellow race are derivatives of the black which, itself, was the first to exist as a human race, now we do not want know what it is. If Africans fall into that trap, they’ll be going around in circles. They must understand the trap, understand the stakes. It is the phenotype which as given us so much difficulty throughout history, so it is this which must be considered in these relations. It exists, is a reality and cannot be repudiated. -- Interview with Diop conducted by Charles Finch III in Dakar, 1986 .[/i] [/QUOTE]This is an interesting quote he is arguing that Africans have been exploited on the basis of phenotype so that Africans must not discard the concept of race because if the concept of race has been proven to be an effective weapon used against people then the people that it was used against should have the right to use that same weapon. Therefore if someone in the oppressor class who used the concept of race to achieve their position but then has that same weapon used on them they should not be able to take refuge in genotype and then race doesn't matter [/QB][/QUOTE]
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