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GeorgeOfTheJungle:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 26, 2020, 12:34:57 pm ---It's no secret that most so-called African-Americans are part European, due to the rape of slaves in the colonial era

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Oh please! Long before the colonial era, the moors went throughout Europe capturing white slaves, JFYI.

"It was estimated that white slaves in Moorish servitude reached 1.2 million by 1780. Not that the Moors limited the system, such as it was, to Europeans. In 1591 a Moorish expedition headed south to smash the black Songhai empire, motivated primarily by gold and secondarily in taking black slaves. If one wasn’t a subject of the kingdom, they were equal opportunity oppressors. Nor were they the only ones—in the 13th century participants in the Children’s Crusades who naively obtained passage aboard ships run by unscrupulous crewmen were taken to Egypt, to be sold into slavery there"


--- Quote ---"He who is without sin can cast the first stone"
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Zero999:

--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on July 26, 2020, 01:08:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 26, 2020, 12:34:57 pm ---It's no secret that most so-called African-Americans are part European, due to the rape of slaves in the colonial era

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Oh please! Long before the colonial era, the moors went throughout Europe capturing white slaves, JFYI.

"It was estimated that white slaves in Moorish servitude reached 1.2 million by 1780. Not that the Moors limited the system, such as it was, to Europeans. In 1591 a Moorish expedition headed south to smash the black Songhai empire, motivated primarily by gold and secondarily in taking black slaves. If one wasn’t a subject of the kingdom, they were equal opportunity oppressors. Nor were they the only ones—in the 13th century participants in the Children’s Crusades who naively obtained passage aboard ships run by unscrupulous crewmen were taken to Egypt, to be sold into slavery there"


--- Quote ---"He who is without sin can cast the first stone"
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I know that and even said so in another post, which I can't be bothered to find in this huge arse thread.

What's your point?

You seem to have missed mine. To summarise.
1) Most Americans have DNA from all over the world.
2) Dividing the human race into black/white is retarded, as where one race becomes another is arbitrary .
EEVblog:
https://www.change.org/p/institute-of-electrical-and-electronics-engineers-stop-allowing-master-slave-terminology-in-technical-papers-9f405a6c-5c4c-4f62-adf4-187cd24491d8?source_location=topic_page
bd139:
Good job it’s on change.org  :-DD
Zero999:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 26, 2020, 01:47:54 pm ---https://www.change.org/p/institute-of-electrical-and-electronics-engineers-stop-allowing-master-slave-terminology-in-technical-papers-9f405a6c-5c4c-4f62-adf4-187cd24491d8?source_location=topic_page

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There isn't an option to disagree, so it's stupid. :palm:
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