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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] The people who created Cheddar Man called him black. [b]They are scientists.[/b] They are Europeans. English is a European language. Black is defined in the English dictionary. That is the only "standard" that applies. Nobody anywhere was complaining about how they used the term because they didn't understand what they meant. They didn't say "Cheddar Man black" because no such term exists in English. That is something you made up. Likewise when National Geographic said "Black Pharaohs" they didn't say "Nubian Black" they just said black. Nobody was confused about what they meant...... Just saying. English is a major language and most English speakers understand what black means just fine. THey use it every day in popular culture, media, the news, history books and everywhere else... That line of reasoning is stupid. [/qb][/QUOTE]That's the thing. Whenever European scientists or scientists in general use racial labels or terms I always have retain some skeptecism. That Cheddar Man was dark skin is not in doubt but the question was exactly [i]how[/i] dark was he?? Was he dark enough to be truly labeled as "black". Recall the genetic findings of the 7,000 year old La Brana hunter-gatherer showing them to have dark skin and blue eyes, yet nobody except Afronuts were quick to call them "black". I mean unlike Egyptian mummies whose intact skins were subject to melanin dosage tests and found to be "packed with melanin", we only have bones of the Old European hunter gatherers and remnant DNA with autosomes showing they didn't have the mutation for pale skin. The reason for my skepticism is that I'm aware that European academia now has for lack of a better phrase, a "left wing" bias based on multiculturalism in a way as to proclaim a black or even Muslim presence in early Europe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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