531Aussie, the "racial stereotyping" promoted by your favorite websites are the same sorts of stereotypes that infected Australia in the past, and were used to justify the murder of thousands of native men, women, and children. Classifying people as members of superior and inferior races gave rise to the Australian "final solution" with the goal of eliminating the native people of Australia.

Johann Blumenbach invented, and named the "Caucasian" race in 1795, and held that Africans belonged to a different race that was physically superior to "Caucasians", but whose group constituted a lesser form of human being. Blumenbach claimed that Caucasians were the most intelligent race, and therefore had a duty to rule over the lesser races.

Many folks on this forum have openly endorsed the theory that distinct and separate races of humans exist, and have endorsed the claim that the so-called "African" race is physically superior. It is rare for someone to buy the first two parts of Blumenbach's racial doctrine without also endorsing the third part: in non-physical enterprises, "Caucasians" are the superior race.

The same folks who say that genetics, not hard work, gets the "credit" for the achievements of African-American athletes, will, after a few pints of truth serum, also claim that genetics, not racism, explains why African-Americans are over-represented in prisons, under-represented among university students and under-represented among upper management in large American corporations. "Genetics" becomes the eternal justification for the ongoing oppression of people defined as belonging to racial minority groups.

The following links to the Australian Kooriweb.org site connect to articles detailing the human cost of Australia's venture into "racial classification". One of the articles depicts the similarities and relationship between the racial policies of the Australian government during the 1930's and the racial policies of Nazi Germany.

No person who carefully reads the articles at Kooriweb.org detailing how genetic and racial stereotyping caused the murder of thousands of Australia's native people, and resulted in the exile of the survivors into the Outback could make a flippant remark about the survivors being "aborigines...having a body type that is ideally suited to the Australian Outback".


www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/essay_8.html

www.kooriweb.org

http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images...ns/toon15.html

http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images...ns/toon24.html