Wow.
I am not trying to start drama or anything
but RUGReek that whooooole statement was some serious reconceptualization of the past on your part. Were you reading the same message board that I was?
You are the one who INSISTED that standard definitions were the only ones that counted for the LONGEST time until ktsnake, librasoul22 and myself called you on it. Don't lie because everybody read it. You are the one who said that only standard definitions count. That was wrong. Anyone who has studied language or linguistics in the slightest can tell you, and I believe that we have, repeatedly.
You CAN"T SAY that race is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT and at the same time BIOLOGICAL. Do you know what social construct means? do you know what calling it that means? It means that it is something defined by society and with no SCIENTIFIC (read: BIOLOGICAL basis). You can't try and PRETEND to agree with me and hold to your original and WRONG interpretation of the word.
You want to say it's biological then fine. Accept that you live in a fantasy world. Can you tell intelligence by the size of foreheads too? Sounds like perfectly sound EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCIENCE to me.
And let me just say this and get it off my chest:You obviously know NOTHING (not the word I wanted to use there, but I am trying to be SOMEWHAT polite, lol) about the black community, WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU THINK IT IS COMPRISED OF. Until you either do some serious research on the topic, or are willing to listen to other viewpoints on the matter (ha,ha) SHUT THE HELL UP AND SIT DOWN.
Not the most politic thing in the world to say, but I had to get it off my chest
And the SCORES of people on GC who won't like what I just said can kiss my grits. Sometimes you just have to call it like you see it, even when it gets personal.
I am not totally intolerant of other views, but really when you have no logical basis for them, and can't tell me anything but your personal anecdotal evidence, I lose all respect for what you post. Mad people feel the same way about you and JUST DON'T SAY IT- and I DON'T just mean black people. I will be the one to say it if I have to. I am willing to take the heat for it.
Bring it.