Paul Essien
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Well you see here's the thing. When you try and make a genetic argument you're argument falls down.Neither. People are smart and stupid based on their genes. Culture reinforce those genes.
Any two humans are 99.9% genetically the same, according to the Human Genome Project. And even that 0.1% is mostly made up of individual differences. Only 6.3% of that 0.1% comes from differences between races. Races have pretty much the same set of genes, just in different frequencies. And even those frequencies do not always fall along the lines of race. Skin colour changes as you go north to south. The frequency of blood type B changes as you go east to west.
The racial designations that we currently use are principally based on three characteristics.
1) Facial structure
2) Skin color
3) Hair texture.
Those are things that are controlled by six genes out of thirty thousand genes in the human genome. So go and find me the so called "dumb" gene that black people must have and then we can talk. Go and show me what no geneticist on the planet shown, what no biologist on the planet have shown, that any of the three characteristics of race to be connected with any other trait known as intelligence.
AND NO
We are not all the same.
There are persistent differences that cluster within racial groups and more so than many have believed.
Yet these differences still fall far short of indicating sub-speciation, which is the normal standard used by biologists to indicate different “races” or breeds of a larger species.
DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair colour can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another.
It has never been a case of there not being differences between the way human beings look. The trouble is in the imprecise taxonomy. How do you define a race and might there not be other equally valid ways of dividing humans into taxonomical groupings ?
Many scientists worked hard (REAL HARD) on finding working definition of race as a biological fact.
They all failed.
They all failed not because genetic differences can’t be observed between various humans (after all, if there weren’t mDNA differences, we wouldn’t know much about human maternal ancestry).
They all failed because genetic differences do not support social races, races that divide people into (pardon my words) “black”, “white”, “yellow” and “red”.
The only living subspecies of the species Homo sapiens is Homo sapiens sapiens. That is current scientific knowledge. And it is very likely to remain the only one, unless Sasquatch or the Yeti decide to walk into a science lab for a DNA test one day.
There is a reason why blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants work. This is why a “black ” persons blood can save an white Irishman’s life with a transfusion and vice versa Some blood types have an affinity for certain groups of people…but the genes are the same.
What's a smart man ? That alone is subjective.If black women start picking smart men, they can be smarter than all of us. They don't.
And why don't drive your arguments to it's logical conclusions:
That is if IQ is so important then why aren't you demanding that all the top positions to those with the highest IQ ? Why have elections ? Just give it to the candidate with the highest IQ...No ? Why have job interviews or resumes ? Why not have birth licences or sterilization based on IQ? Because you know that no human being can be baked down to a number. To do so is profoundly dehumanizing
