Re: OT: Neanderthal Books

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:30:07 -0600

OM wrote:

>"And de Lawd kept de li'l baby in de oven until he turned a deep, dark
>brown, and den he knew de li'l baby was cooked jus' right!"
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Now tell us about the finding of the fossil La Brea Tar Baby, Uncle Mosley.
Remember that section I quoted from 1909's "Our Wonder World"?:

"HOW DID MAN BECOME BLACK?"
"Well, suppose that the original color of man was red, as the name Adam
(red
earth) would imply in the Genesis record. This color was natural to the
soil
and climate of the original birthplace of humanity or thereabouts. The time
came when group of descendants of this original red man had to go somewhere
to find room to grow in, and they moved southward on the African continent,
towards the equator, where the climate was intensely hot, fruit was
abundant, and all the conditions were favorable to the secretions which
come
from a sluggish liver and which gradually paint the skin black. The process
was slow but sure, and in generations the red was replaced by an ebony
black, such as found among the pure black people of the Congo. These
African
settlers had a small and sluggish brain, as their ancestor was one of the
dull boys of the original family. Under the debilitating influence of the
hot climate they lived a simple life not far above the animal level, and
their children had the same characteristics, remaining savage, or at best,
only semi-civilized through the ages. They can be seen to-day in the
aborigines of Australia, and the pygmies of Africa, who have not changed
materially in thousands of years. Thus the negro race came to have a pretty
well-defined character and temperament as well as color. What the effect
will be upon members of this race of removal to a temperate zone and close
association with the white race is one of the experiments, resulting from
African slavery, that is being watched with great interest in our own
country. The negro has shown remarkable progress, but there is no sign of
losing the black pigment, even under a mixture of bloods. We must remember,
however, that it doubtless took thousands of years to create that color.
Fifty thousand years from now, the human race, united again, may be all of
the same color, white or red."

"White or red"? Apparently someone left the Chinese out of the equation
in the numerical sense. ;-)

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