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thejoyofcurls

Africa, the Heartland I Never Knew

Oct 23, 2005 17:38

Why am I not black? This a question that up until last night I never pondered. I was never a wannabe ghetto white girl. I was always minus the bling-bling. And yet, according to a man who lived in the 19th century, I am originally African. This same man led to Social Darwinism, which in essence lets the poor suffer because Gehenim, it's survival of ( Read more... )

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42shadesofgray October 23 2005, 22:24:19 UTC

Darwin never meant for his ideas to be applied to society and he was pretty pissed off with the Social Darwinists, who basically just twisted his theories to back up their own ideas. Darwin was a med school dropout (surgery gave him indigestion) who had an interest in biology. He never imagined he'd become a famous naturalist - his dad was like, "Charles, you couldn't cut it as a doctor, you're going to have to be a parson." To blame Darwin for Social Darwinism is to blame Einstein for the atomic bomb - it couldn't have happened without them, but they never wanted it.

If Zoroastrians accepted converts I would seriously consider becoming one.

still caro, too lazy again 42shadesofgray October 24 2005, 01:14:15 UTC

whenever something in nature works out really well, like how eggshells are the right amount of sturdy and breakable, my dad goes, really sarcastically, "gee darwin, good job there"

Re: still caro, too lazy again 42shadesofgray October 24 2005, 01:45:55 UTC

There are debaters at my school who put a little sticker on their tubs that is the Jesus fish with legs and it says "DARWIN" instead of "JESUS".

it's caro, too lazy to log in anonymous October 24 2005, 01:12:22 UTC

i don't get any credit for the african idea? what is this shit.

thejoyofcooking October 24 2005, 22:05:45 UTC

My mother got smashed one night and started expounding on the idiocy of Christians while waving a glass around: "They'd rather believe that there's some man in the sky somewhere that will give them what they deserve, some man that the goddamn [apparently her incredulity did not extend as far as her need for a suitable swear] Roman kings or whatever made up, rather that, rather than believe that one day we all just die and are put in the ground. We're put in the ground! They can't accept it. I can't accept it, either. But. We're put in the ground!" I was summarily afraid to go to sleep for six months afterward.