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I dont think "academics" has anything to do with it. The history of man is open to specualtion. If everybody started out in africa,, than why all the different races?
I mean with all due respect, why would a race choose to leave africa to go to a cold weather enviroment(europe)? Were the original white men explorers? Were they outcasts as albinos(1-1000 kids are born as albinos in africa if I am not mistaken and can't take the heat) as some ancient texts speculate? Did they just get lost? Did they just say fuck it(like the pilgrims) and just leave? We don't know!
Not to turn this into something that it is not, but selective breeding probaly isnt anywhere near a new concept. Looking at african americans today you will see all our different shades. And what did the introduction of native american blood have to do with us? What did they bring to the table? All this is very interesting.
We have some of the best "white qualities"(due to masters having sex with women slaves) and some of the best "black qualities. The strong of all these breedings were the ones to survive the brutal life.
Combine the best qualities of euros and africans and you have some strong, agile, quick muthas, with some mass. And truth be told it is alot of whites out here with black blood in them. I hate to say it but its alot like dog breeding. Take a big dog that can move and breed it with another big dog that can move? What do you get most the time? Alot of big dogs that can move and a few runts. What happened to the runts in slave times? LOL They died. And lets not forget only the strong whites and blacks could survive the early trips here. So you have the combined strongest of the strong of both races making offspring.
We can't say any race is superior in the mind, we all have made good things and have done bad things, but in the physical sense there is no disputing the differences. Whites survive better in the cold, we survive better in heat.
Plato once said he had read a ancient history book in africa that said man has risen up many times only to be put down by nature and have to start over like a baby. I wonder out of those times has silly racism messed things up. If you are white you may put on mass better, us we may define better, but in the end we want the fucking combo anyway and are after the same thing. Its only by selective and interracial breeding that alot of us african americans have both traits, although I bet our ancestors would have wanted it another way.