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Jenny_Lyte · 01-25-2008, 05:27 PM

I have a personal rebuttal against this. It has no real basis in proof other than history and may make me sound extremely racist and bitter. But, here goes. Sorry if I offend anyone, but now you will know how I felt when this article was published.

It's not a black versus white thing. I don't think it ever was. It's modern Westerners versus indigenous tribes. Africans, Australian Aborigines, Native Americans, etc. have always been considered backwards ignorant savages that new nothing of how the world was supposed to work. They wore less clothing than Westerners. Many were nomadic. Their customs and society were so different from traditional Western Christian values, that they had to be heathens. Europe began the colonization of Africa and Australia, disrupting the way of lives of many suddenly displaced and oppressed peoples. America began importing African slaves and also began a continuous westward expansion destroying the American Indians in the process. Eventually, these backwards ignorant savages became absorbed into the Western way of life. Now, Africa is ripped apart by civil war, disease and famine. Not a good way for the first civilization on Earth to end up. Native Americans are living in third-world countries right in our own backyards.

These were peoples who lived with the land, not on it. They worked with nature, they did not control it. They shunned technology and one result of that was the absence of a population explosion. They were often nomads and as a result did not scar the Earth with cities and other permanent dwellings. There were no problems like crime, traffic and pollution. They lived in a peaceful coexistence with the world around them. It could be argued, and rightfully so, that they almost lived like animals.

Fast forward to 2008. Over population, global warming, violence, etc. These were not problems of these "savages" these problems are the result of this "civilized" Western way of thinking.

Keeping all that in mind, I ask you: Who's really of inferior intelligence?

Again, I apologize to anyone I have offended. Just something to think about is all.

01-25-2008, 05:27 PM	#163 (permalink)
Jenny_Lyte Upright	I have a personal rebuttal against this. It has no real basis in proof other than history and may make me sound extremely racist and bitter. But, here goes. Sorry if I offend anyone, but now you will know how I felt when this article was published. It's not a black versus white thing. I don't think it ever was. It's modern Westerners versus indigenous tribes. Africans, Australian Aborigines, Native Americans, etc. have always been considered backwards ignorant savages that new nothing of how the world was supposed to work. They wore less clothing than Westerners. Many were nomadic. Their customs and society were so different from traditional Western Christian values, that they had to be heathens. Europe began the colonization of Africa and Australia, disrupting the way of lives of many suddenly displaced and oppressed peoples. America began importing African slaves and also began a continuous westward expansion destroying the American Indians in the process. Eventually, these backwards ignorant savages became absorbed into the Western way of life. Now, Africa is ripped apart by civil war, disease and famine. Not a good way for the first civilization on Earth to end up. Native Americans are living in third-world countries right in our own backyards. These were peoples who lived with the land, not on it. They worked with nature, they did not control it. They shunned technology and one result of that was the absence of a population explosion. They were often nomads and as a result did not scar the Earth with cities and other permanent dwellings. There were no problems like crime, traffic and pollution. They lived in a peaceful coexistence with the world around them. It could be argued, and rightfully so, that they almost lived like animals. Fast forward to 2008. Over population, global warming, violence, etc. These were not problems of these "savages" these problems are the result of this "civilized" Western way of thinking. Keeping all that in mind, I ask you: Who's really of inferior intelligence? Again, I apologize to anyone I have offended. Just something to think about is all.