Typically when I post some thoughts, the only thoughts that get attention are thoughts based on racism. Here I will discuss race and racism. I will focus my attention to give a clear presentation of race and racism as possible. I will support my thoughts in accordance with academic standards. I will ask that you do the same. For those who do not have a thorough knoweldge on this topic, I ask please refrain from posting your opinions until you research the topic in depth. Posting opinions in the realm of facts will only cause problems and the pathway to solutions will be obstructed.

My words will appear in white, let's begin...

PHYSICAL CALIBRATION DOCTRINE: In which white anthropologists treat people as racial specimens, measuring "cephalic indices" and attempting to prove superiority of the "white" brain. Ugly racist terminology: "prognathism," "platyrhiny," "steatopygous," "sub-Egyptian." Mug-shot lineups of "the Veddan female," "Arapaho male, "Negroid type," "Mongoloid specimen" chacterize this approach. Out of favor in the mid-20th-century, it has enjoyed a revisionist comeback with sociobiology and works claiming racial differentials in intelligence, such as "The Bell Curve."

Racism destroys the identity of a people. How is this done? The foundation of intellectual thought is based on those intellectuals who came before us(teacher to student). Whether they truly possessed true wisdom, or not, this is our source of knowledge. Anthropologist play a major part in racism. By giving the same people different names and classifying them as other than "man" we have a scientifical approach of racism occuring. These terms of identification have the greatest influence on the so-called "negro" or "african." This group of people will be the focus of racism for it is them who have experienced the greatest acts of racism throughout the anals of history. This is not to say that other "minorities" do not or have not experienced racism, for they have, but when the most extreme case of racism is corrected so will all the others.

The "Bell Curve" is still available to the buying public. Not hard to find.

TECHOLOGICAL CALIBRATION DOCTRINE: Insists on forcing archaeological finds as well as living cultures into a grid of "development" based on the use of certain tools, materials and techniques valued by "Western" scholars. Example: "They were a stone age civilization who never discovered the wheel!" Forces cultures into a progressional paradigm: Old and New Stone Ages, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Industrial Revolution, Space Age. This classification ignores the complexity of culture, and the fact that metallurgic technology and military might are not the ultimate measure of advanced culture.

How do we measure the development of civilizations? Do we measure social development with the standard being wealth, architecture, art, intellect, conquest, discoveries, science, morality, war, technology, economics, religion, material items, music, government, etc. etc. In studying the europeans measuring stick, they have a tendency to use conquest, material wealth, and military might. This is quite different from the measuring stick used by the "african." The "african" uses a morality, intellect, and the development of "spirituality" as their measuring stick of social development.

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT DOCTRINE: The assumption that "primitive" cultures represent lower "stages" in historical evolution, and have yet to attain advanced forms of culture. One English scholar referred to "the child-races of Africa." Usually, social hierarchy, militarization and industrialization are taken as measures of "advanced" civilizations. In the 19th century, scholars openly used the terms "savage," "barbarian," "civilized." Though these offensive words have (mostly) been dropped, the underlying assumptions are still quite influential.

The use of words is another tool that white supremist use to promote their ideas. This enters the field of acedemics. Education helps to develop who and what the person will be. We must understand word meaning, origin, and the context in which it is being used. Words such as primitive, savage, and uncivilized are terms used to plant inferiority into people of color, "africans." This is important to understand, because the ideas of racism whether it's geared toward the upliftment of whites and the oppression of the "african" all of this starts at childhood.