something a skinhead said to my jewish friend the other day

sponger

"Christianity destroyed my race because it allows interracial breeding."

So, I guess that means to imply that whites and non-whites married amongst themselves until Jesus came along? What on earth was that guy thinking? Is that what neo-nazis think these days? Is there any truth to it?

tybird

I don't suppose there was a lot of contact between people with dark skin and people with white skin until the time of Jesus, or more correctly the days of the Roman Empire. Most of the contact then was not real friendly....Huns....Mongols..Alexander marching into Asia..Persians and etc. made contact with white-skinned people, but that didn't go real well for one side or the other. Distances were too great, and transportation was a risky affair.

North Africa (and Spain) and Egypt were the main areas of contact between white and dark skinned peoples at that time. I have never heard of a general taboo against mixing of the races during that era or before. Solomon had a go with the Queen of Sheba, and she was assuredly a dark-skinned person.

Besides, it don't take many brain cells to be a skinhead.

Ahnimus

Only if the gospel account of creation is true.

Otherwise, many believe that we all originated from a single species and therefor are related. It only follows that we've breed together.

Maybe some young earth theorist can explain the Zodiac. The Zodiac is found in ancient cultures all over the world. It's possible that all ancient civilizations coincidentally came up with the same constellations and calendar system. But it's much more likely that pre-historic civilizations had communications.

The Swastika is another example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#History

Mine

I saw a documentary, where a deformation in the genome was found common to all the living male population, leading to the fact that we are all descendents of a single guy, who most likely was dark collored. That deformation was likely related to intelect and speech. It was called "The historical Adam", i saw it on National geographic. As for neo-nazis and similar you are never surprised enough of stuff they come up with, realy those people are not the brightest.

bootlegger10

Mine wrote:

leading to the fact that we are all descendents of a single guy, who most likely was dark collored. .

Wouldn't that freak the Neo-Nazis out! They might have to turn on themselves.

Deni

I ah... well... never mind. pretend this isnt here.

Why don't we have a delete button? lol

Byrnzie

Skinheads are a joke. They should all be tarred and feathered.

Bu2

that there's a "n*gger in the woodpile" in their own fuckin' family tree.

We're all related. Deal with it, already.

bgivens33

Ahnimus wrote:

Only if the gospel account of creation is true.

Otherwise, many believe that we all originated from a single species and therefor are related. It only follows that we've breed together.

Maybe some young earth theorist can explain the Zodiac. The Zodiac is found in ancient cultures all over the world. It's possible that all ancient civilizations coincidentally came up with the same constellations and calendar system. But it's much more likely that pre-historic civilizations had communications.

The Swastika is another example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#History

even if creation is true, we would still be all related/

Collin

Not all skinheads are racist, by the way.

deadnothingbetter

Collin wrote:

Not all skinheads are racist, by the way.

so what's a skinhead anyways?

cornnifer

Racism is a relatively new concept. There was never really a taboo on "race-mixing" until it popped up in these United States sometime during and just after slavery. In fact, throughout history and throughout the world miscegenation was VERY common, attractive and highly desired by many, even. It was in many places a sign of status. Anyone truly interested should check out some of the works of an historian called J.A Rogers. You'd probably be surprised at just how common miscegenation was. People from all over the world were banging and noone had even the slightest problem with it.
Actually if you take about 2 seconds to think about it, we all have four grandparents, eight great-granparents, sixteen great-great grandparents etc. You only have to go back a few generations and thats ALOT of ancestry. Couple that with the aforementioned commnoness of misegenation and the complete abscence of any taboo associated with it, and it becomes pretty hard to tell what's in there. Any claims, by anyone, of ethnic purity, is an absolute joke.

IndianSummer

cornnifer wrote:

Any claims, by anyone, of ethnic purity, is an absolute joke.

not if that society has been sort of isolated for centuries. like say japan was.

meme

sponger wrote:

What on earth was that guy thinking?

You are assuming a lot right there.
People like that don't think.

vmfury

Skinheads...or racists in general = ignorance at its finest.

Collin

deadnothingbetter wrote:

so what's a skinhead anyways?

I don't know. They're people. I used to hang out with several skinheads. Not one of them was a racist. They were all left radicals. Of course there are neo-nazi skinheads as well.

All I'm saying don't jump to conclusions.

sponger

Collin wrote:

I don't know. They're people. I used to hang out with several skinheads. Not one of them was a racist. They were all left radicals. Of course there are neo-nazi skinheads as well.

All I'm saying don't jump to conclusions.

Yes I agree that a person's hairstyle does not necessarily denote their point of view. However, when placed in the context of the quote which I provided at the beginning of the thread, it becomes clear that this is one of those exceptions.

Collin

sponger wrote:

Yes I agree that a person's hairstyle does not necessarily denote their point of view. However, when placed in the context of the quote which I provided at the beginning of the thread, it becomes clear that this is one of those exceptions.

Obviously.

Hitch-Hiker

Watching Eddie Izzard last night, he talked about how all humanity originated in africa, and then said "and that's great, because now, all the racists can retire". If only it were that simple.