Mathias Victorien Ntep
12 May 2008
opinion
Frankfurt — At long last, people of color and whites who are interested in a globalized world hinging on the values of truth, peace, justice and solidarity are now becoming aware of the real story behind skin color , that is oftentimes used in racism and discrimination against the other races different from the "White" one.
As a matter of fact, racism and discrimination, which are subtle and consummate expressions of trickery, cheating, sloth, pathological envy, violence and underperformance, make up the "root cause" of the lopsided relationship between "whites" and other races.
During the EU-African summit held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 7-9 December, 2007, African leaders and their counterparts of the EU agreed upon striking up a "new partnership" between Africans and Europeans based on mutual respect. This agreement can only be relevant if light is shed on grounds of racism.
Racism can be traced back to Western Europe, the heartland of the ideology of the superiority of the White man over the other races. One of the earliest prominent racist advocate was the Frenchman Gobineau, who thought that the superior human ought to have a white skin colour, blue eyes and white hair. He taught that people of colour were inferior.
The German "philosopher" Hegel claimed that Africa, the Black continent, didn't have any history at all. Kant, the other great German "philosopher," suggested that Blacks represent the degeneration of human kind.
Adolph Hitler, jealous, angry, envious, notoriously refused to hand over the Gold medal to the great U.S. athlete Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, because he had publicly mortified the Nazi regime by outperforming German athletes.
In his utterances and in those of his well-whishers and contemporary closet admirers, Hitler and proponents of the Nazi ideology contend that humans with blue eyes, white skin and hair, are superior to others and are masters. These claims have never been substantiated; they are not based on facts, historical scholarship, or values.
What is more, it has been proven scientifically that the "black man" is biologically the human original norm or standard. For example, in poring over albinism, we learn in biology that folks with a white skin colour and hair, slightly blue or red eyes have albinistic features. Albinism is a hereditary disease; the body of albinos doesn't have the tyrosinase, that enzyme which converts and synthesizes tyrosine into melanin or dark pigment. Now then, melanin protects from ultraviolet radiation and from skin cancer.
Therefore, the white skin lacks that melanin - in the case of total albinos or blonds with blue eyes, white skin and hair - or at most only has it in a very tiny quantity - in the case of partial albinos or common white people. The words "albinism" and "albino" stem from Latin "albus" meaning "white". Even white humans with black hair are partially "albinos".
All biologists regard albinos as a deviation from the norm, which is the black skin colour.
Most people of colour have henceforth the opportunity to turn the tables and to regard white people as biologically subnormal or substandard, but they don't resort to such means, worthy of childish flibbertigibbets.
They want the human rights of all men and women to be respected, irrespective of the fact that their epidermis contains melanin or not; they just want to live in a global world where everyone would be judged according to "the content of his character" for a peaceful world, because they believe that "variety is the spice of life".
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Dear Sir,
If you knew the history of Germany inside out, you would understand that Hitler tactically and maliciously avoided handing over the medal to Jesse Owens.
Moreover, I advise you to read my piece again before making any rash comment on it.Try to henceforth read any text carefully before letting out at the author.If you don´t understand the point the author is hammering home, never broadcast your lacking intellectual plane - never give you low intellectual standards a plug.
Now, read the passage below carefully:
" What’s more, it has been proven scientifically that the “Black man” is biologically… [Read Full Text]
Dear Sir or Madam:
If you knew the history of Germany inside out, you would understand that Hitler tactically and maliciously avoided handing over the medal to Jesse Owens.
Moreover, I advise you to read my piece again before making any rash comment on it.Try to henceforth read any text carefully before letting out at the author.If you don´t understand the point the author is hammering home, never broadcast your lacking intellectual plane - never give you low intellectual standards a plug.
Now, read the passage below carefully:
" What’s more, it has been proven scientifically that the “Black man”… [Read Full Text]
Dear Sir or Madam:
If you knew the history of Germany inside out, you would understand that Hitler tactically and maliciously avoided handing over the medal to Jesse Owens.
Moreover, I advise you to read my piece again before making any rash comment on it.Try to henceforth read any text carefully before letting out at the author.If you don´t understand the point the author is hammering home, never broadcast your lacking intellectual plane - never give you low-level intellectual standards a plug.
Now, read the passage below carefully:
" What’s more, it has been proven scientifically that the “Black man”… [Read Full Text]
Dear Sir or Madam:
The following text is the edited and final version of the three texts I posted above.
If you knew the history of Germany inside out, you would understand that Hitler tactically and maliciously avoided handing over the medal to Jesse Owens.
Moreover, I advise you to read my piece again before making any rash comment on it.Try to henceforth read any text carefully before letting out at the author.If you don´t understand the point the author is hammering home, you should never advertise your poor intellectual plane - never give your low-level intellectual standards a plug… [Read Full Text]
Hey - Sambo - Here's what Jesse Owens actually said, and what actually happened:
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.”
“Hitler didn't snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."
For the record, albinism is the inability to produce melanin. The lower levels of melanin in populations native to colder climates is due to the lower levels of UV radiation.
If this article is an… [Read Full Text]