As always this is dope, but Egypt is not sub-Saharan Africa, nor are the Egyptians reducible to “Black.” There are Black Egyptians, certainly, and there always have been, but that’s not really the same thing. Same is true of all of North Africa — the article you linked to says those people are “primarily caucasoid…

So you don’t really seem to be addressing anything I said except the idea that the Greeks thought their gods were Greek, which you only address tangentially by saying...the Romans had emperors with dark skin? While this is widely known - not all Romans were Italian - you haven’t actually offered any evidence to…

I appreciate your reasoned response.

“Black-Headed ones” is far from evidence that they were black people, considering the fact that they would have had black hair (just as “The Black Land” is widely agreed to refer to the rich silty earth of the Nile, not the people of Egypt). Genetic evidence suggests that the indigenous peoples of Iraq and the Fertile…

No doubt about this. 

Everyone knows that European populations have a Near Eastern origin — this is literally where the genes for light skin and hair came from. We know that the neolithic populations of Europe had darker skin — see recreations of Cheddar Man for reference (based on gene sequencing). What you’ve outlined here is largely…

Of course the Sumerians weren’t “white” in the American sense, but there’s no reason to believe that they looked much different than the Greeks. Mediterranean, Eastern European, North African, and West Asian peoples share tremendous genetic affinity, which is why they have broadly common phenotypes. This is borne out…

But the article specifically calls them out for being racist. None of these examples you’ve given indicate racism. Is that a valuable point? I don’t see how it is.

Legitimate question — Jerrard Wheeler is a Black man who is also the Intercultural and Intersectional Program Studies Manager at this institution.

Some sloppiness here.

“why having two gendered parents was so important to the atheists who reject religion but embrace…heteronormative android parenting”

I am having a hard time interpreting the “white woman dipped in chocolate” comment. That SHOULD be a reference to the misogynoir that Iman and various other Black models have experienced in the way they’ve been exoticized and/or had their racial identity minimized or erased; the way you’ve positioned it - as a…

Eh, that’s projection. Lots of players respect the guy. It is what it is. Doesn’t matter if he’s some kind of hero - few are, and it’s not important - what matters is that he’s using his position to say the right thing at the right time, and he’s challenging white people in a sport where they tend to go unchallenged.…

Isn’t the difference that she has no connection to the NA community but she clearly does have one to the Black community in Tottenham? Is the argument now that if your friends encourage you to participate in a culturally important celebration you ought to think about possible Twitter outrage from people who don’t know…

I mean the New York Post is basically just a Fox News facsimile. You’re not wrong about the double standard in coverage as a general rule, but NYP is a dyed in the wool right wing rag.

I made the exact opposite argument. But...okay

No, you selected the words you wanted to engage with based on the argument you wanted to make, reframed my initial statement based on that reduction, and then used the resulting construct to attack me. That’s a strawman, not a summary. Learn the difference. I am not interested in bad faith conversations, and this one…

Nah, that’s not what I mean. You’ve erected a strawman by intentionally ignoring about half of what I wrote. He killed people and therefore deserves whatever he gets. I am talking about the description of what happened in the video. It is inaccurate. I can believe that and still believe that he’s no victim.

Rhetoric. Convincing someone of your position through effective composition. Keep trying little guy. 

This kid deserves whatever punishment he gets, but this isn’t an accurate or truthful representation of what happened before the final two people were shot: