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Listed below are comments made by Sir-Jaymore-Sterling between Friday, 3rd October 2008 and Thursday, 6th November 2008.

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Obama - Tiger, Lewis and me 1:37pm on 06 Nov 2008 The truth is we are all mixed race, all of have are the products of population movements through history. Look to the Babylonian kingdom for the mixing of different peoples, we experienced the same mixing in the Ottoman, Roman, Byzantine, Mongolian, British empires etcetera. The mixing did not just occur between black and white people, but between Chinese and Indian, Celts and Saxons, Persians and Northern Europeans. We are such a mixed gene pool that to realistically place people in groups we would have to do it genetically i.e. putting people in groups such as Blood type A people or Blood type B people etcetera. But as long as we have this cognitive ability and the brain capacity to process it, then either we get to a stage where all races are mixed such that there is no race, or we rely on a person's physical appearance and where informed how the individuals choose to define themselves.
Obama - Tiger, Lewis and me 1:37pm on 06 Nov 2008 What Mark Easton misses is that Obama considers himself a Blackman with a white mother, his grandmother considered him to be a black grandchild, his family considers him to be a Blackman, his nation considers him to be a Blackman. He appears physically to have very black African features. So why then there is the need to base an article on his race is confounding. What is even more interesting, is that those that dismissed his chances because he was a Blackman are now some of the people that are vocally stating he is no longer a Blackman but now a mixed-race man. This shows that for some people race is still such as issue that for them to accept Obama, they would have to go against his own self definition and called him mixed-race to find him an acceptable leader.
Obama - Tiger, Lewis and me 1:37pm on 06 Nov 2008 The inherent stupidity and absurdity in this article is the suggestion that mixed race is an ethnic minority group. One has to question the research that has gone into this piece, or maybe the piece is written from a position of fear, or need to reduce the association of an Obama presidency with people that consider themselves to be black.

History and genetic mapping has shown us that the idea of a pure race is and has always being a fallacy, which is why you find a very diverse and mixed DNA pool in Africa. The idea of race owes much to human's cognitive ability and their ability to process and interpret this information. If two black African people as you say have a child with white European features skin colour hair etcetera, which is possible, then the child has African parentage but is perceived as being European. This further shows that human beings do not perceive race based on parentage, instead they perceive race based on physical appearance, such that it is possible to have dual heritage but belong to the group you most resemble and accepts you. Much like we have the idea of what it constitutes to be a Jew
Obama - Tiger, Lewis and me 1:37pm on 06 Nov 2008 Interesting article, although in reading this article one has to question the motive or the underlying reason behind the author putting forward these views.

Race in itself is an interesting concept. The question that comes to mind then is what categorises a race, if we look at skin colour there are a multitude of pigmentation differences across Africa, going from high melanin content to the low melanin content. Do we then look at these individuals as different races?

It is however true that it is possible to genetically identify similarities in base pairings between people who share a similar heritage, one has to bear in mind that genetic differentiation between these so called races is sometimes less than that within so called races themselves.
Obama - Tiger, Lewis and me 1:37pm on 06 Nov 2008 Interesting article, although in reading this article one has to question the motive or the underlying reason behind the author putting forward these views.

Race in itself is an interesting concept. The question that comes to mind then is what categorises a race, if we look at skin colour there are a multitude of pigmentation differences across Africa, going from high melanin content to the low melanin content. Do we then look at these individuals as different races?

It is however true that it is possible to genetically identify similarities in base pairings between people who share a similar heritage, one has to bear in mind that genetic differentiation between these so called races is sometimes less than that within so called races themselves.

The inherent stupidity and absurdity in this article is the suggestion that mixed race is an ethnic minority group. One has to question the research that has gone into this piece, or maybe the piece is written from a position of fear, or need to reduce the association of an Obama presidency with people that consider themselves to be black.

History and genetic mapping has shown us that the idea of a pure race is and has always being a fallacy, which is why you find a very diverse and mixed DNA pool in Africa. The idea of race owes much to human's cognitive ability and their ability to process and interpret this information. If two black African people as you say have a child with white European features skin colour hair etcetera, which is possible, then the child has African parentage but is perceived as being European. This further shows that human beings do not perceive race based on parentage, instead they perceive race based on physical appearance, such that it is possible to have dual heritage but belong to the group you most resemble and accepts you. Much like we have the idea of what it constitutes to be a Jew

What Mark Easton misses is that Obama considers himself a Blackman with a white mother, his grandmother considered him to be a black grandchild, his family considers him to be a Blackman, his nation considers him to be a Blackman. He appears physically to have very black African features. So why then there is the need to base an article on his race is confounding. What is even more interesting, is that those that dismissed his chances because he was a Blackman are now some of the people that are vocally stating he is no longer a Blackman but now a mixed-race man. This shows that for some people race is still such as issue that for them to accept Obama, they would have to go against his own self definition and called him mixed-race to find him an acceptable leader.

The truth is we are all mixed race, all of have are the products of population movements through history. Look to the Babylonian kingdom for the mixing of different peoples, we experienced the same mixing in the Ottoman, Roman, Byzantine, Mongolian, British empires etcetera. The mixing did not just occur between black and white people, but between Chinese and Indian, Celts and Saxons, Persians and Northern Europeans. We are such a mixed gene pool that to realistically place people in groups we would have to do it genetically i.e. putting people in groups such as Blood type A people or Blood type B people etcetera. But as long as we have this cognitive ability and the brain capacity to process it, then either we get to a stage where all races are mixed such that there is no race, or we rely on a person's physical appearance and where informed how the individuals choose to define themselves.
'A wonderful man' 03:23am on 22 Oct 2008 1st....

The Colin Powell endorsement of Obama, put McCain in a tight spot.

The new argument about Obama being tested, is somewhat negated by Powell's endorsement..
Getting angry 9:51pm on 10 Oct 2008 Well if that is a true assessment. Then for the first time I would have to say that race is a very big part of this vitriol you speak about, and it is playing a larger role that initially thought.

Obviously this assessment is based on your blog, and may be wrong, well I hope so......
McCain out of Michigan 11:29am on 03 Oct 2008 Well if that's what America wants then that's what America gets.

Personal opinion I would be immensely embarrassed if Palin was put forward as the representation of my ideologies. I think my conclusion here, is that these so-called conservatives or right wingers, do not have their own minds, they are way to easy convince.

In light of this, the flaws of the democratic process are exposed. It is not as far away from some other forms of governance as we are led to believe.
The Vice-Presidential Debate - Live 04:28am on 03 Oct 2008 It'll be funny if McCain/Palin win. That would further show that the notion of democracy been the best option is a fallacy. A new kind of ideology would have to emerge, one that is able to provide freedoms put somehow provide the opportunity for some level of competency and regulation attached to VPs etcetera.
The Vice-Presidential Debate - Live 04:00am on 03 Oct 2008 Laughing stock of the World comes to mind. I'm sure China and Russia are laughing and saying heck you guys can keep your democracy, we'll do just fine.

hihihi :o)

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