-By Warner Todd Huston
As scientists unravel the human genome, it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is no such thing as a “race” of humans. All humans share parts of their DNA with almost every other human as it happens, and this is increasingly so as this big world shrinks with cheap, safe, and easy travel. But as science learns more of our DNA we have found that there was intermixing between our human ancestors and the more primitive Neanderthals and that story tends to show just how stupid racists really are.
So, let’s think back to the most common taunt that racists who are related through white, European ancestors offer when assessing darker humans, whether they be Indians, blacks, or others. Don’t they say that their heavy brows or dark features make them out to be “primitives”?
Further, haven’t blacks been portrayed as Neanderthals, dim witted, slow, plodding, animalistic sorts who aren’t as sophisticated as those more learned white folks?
We all know that this has long been the stereotype of non-white people. But God has had the last laugh on these racists and science has at last uncovered the big guy’s biggest prank on racists.
As we have gotten further along in the science of decoding the human genome, it has been discovered that humanity contains some small bits of Neanderthal DNA. That’s right, our ancestors interbred with the Neanderthal and we all have a bit of Neanderthal in us.
Yes, it turns out we all share some of that beast, that dull-witted creature, that heavy-browed, apeman that grunted and hit their mates with clubs.
But guess which lineage of humanity has more Neanderthal DNA? Yup. The white guys. Science has found that Europeans have far more Neanderthal DNA than Africans.
So, the very people who are more closely related to the primitive apemen have for thousands of years been pointing fingers at everyone else.
Guilty conscience, much?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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