Originally Posted by fullor30

Let me say the I feel all African Americans are decent.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I got news for everybody. All Americans, of all colors, are African Americans. In fact every Homo Sapien on Earth is of African descent. The oldest human fossils on Earth come from what is now known as the rift region of eastern Africa, centered around what is now known as Kenya.

Even more astonding, every single human on Earth has descended from one female, that lived around 150-250 thousand years ago. Unlike the regular DNA in our body cells that comes from both of our parents, mitochondrial DNA only comes from the mother. By studing mitochondrial DNA, scientists have determined that all humans have decended from a one female that lived in what is now Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Unlike the regular DNA in our body cells that comes from both of our parents, mitochondrial DNA only comes from the mother. By studing mitochondrial DNA, scientists have determined that all humans have decended from a one female that lived in what is now Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Then we agree that this is a clear case of gender discrimination and could possibly be prosecuted under the existing laws, regardless of what money flows where.

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

So we're all black then? What's the big deal then if a black person becomes President?

Originally Posted by rockyroad

I'm not really sure how this all got compared to the KKK (but I'm thinking our buddy who's going straight to hell might have had something to do with that), but since the comparison was made...the KKK, as a PRIVATE group can deny membership and employment based on racial, gender, religious, sexual-orientation, etc. basis - if they choose to. This school, as a PRIVATE group, can do the same. The fact that this does not fit your worldview (or mine for that matter) doesn't change those facts - and denying that private group the ability to do so would be every bit as wrong as you are saying the school was.

Editorial note: I disagree strenously with what the school did, but (as I said in an earlier post) in the rush to defend "diversity",we often trample all over other people's diverse views that don't fit our defintions of what is acceptable diversity.

IOW...word.

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I got an idea.

Write an article about it.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I never said that. Fossils of prehistoric humans usually consist of fossilized hard material, teeth, bones, etc., not softer tissue like muscle, internal organs, or skin.

However, some scientists believe that humans that live in equatorial areas, now, or in prehistory, that get a lot of sunlight, evolve darker skin pigments to decrease the chance of getting skin cancer. As humans migrated out of Africa, into northern climates, that received lesser amounts of sunlight, they may have evolved lighter skin coloration, to best absorb sunlight, as a way of providing the body with Vitamin D, which is produced by the skin when the skin is exposed to sunlight.

Originally Posted by rainmaker

References?!?!? Please?!?!?

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Went back to look and there was already an icon. And you didn't quote it! Talk about putting words into someone's mouth. How about you not taking words away!

Originally Posted by wildcatter

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/487355.html



Kooks. Does this happen often? Or just in my home state?

My mother would have a ball telling that AD off.

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

What's the big deal then if a black person becomes President?

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Even more astonding, every single human on Earth has descended from one female, that lived around 150-250 thousand years ago.

By studing mitochondrial DNA, scientists have determined that all humans have decended from a one female that lived in what is now Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Originally Posted by Rita C

My husband wonders how they let the nuns teach in Catholic schools all these years.

Rita