I've done a lot of work over the last decade, and much of it has been about education. It annoys me to continue to slam into ignorance. One thing that recently disturbed me, is to have my own father call my work- stupid nonsense. I couldn't just excuse that with senility. There is an undertone of ignorance there that I find disgusting. If you know me, you know I don't suffer ignorance. That is especially so when involving flesh and blood. It's one thing to have natural ignorance and be unaware of something. It is entirely another, to fight to stay ignorant, even violently so. Not only due to the fact that many of my complex pieces were dedicated to him, but just the simple fact that with base intellect, you can see that the work I do is anything but stupid nonsense. This is part of this world's current fight to champion ignorance and eliminate intellectualism.
For years, even decades, I have put myself out there, like any true artist. I have been transparent all the time. Any topic, just about, that you could want to ask me about, I've elaborated on, at some point, in my work, including race and race relations. Yet, I find that presently, I'm getting questioning left and right about these same topics and my knowledge and stance on them. Bottom line, this is the last time. If you read then, very well. If you choose to ignore this, like you choose to do with every thing I say or do, just be blindsided by me ignoring you if you question me in person. I will not be engaging any questioning going forward that I discuss extensively in my works. I don't mean this, obviously for every single topic. But if I strongly present, or have presented an idea, and you claim to know and listen to me, yet have not heard anything of it, that's on you.
Long ago, since I was a child, I've always been interested in lineage, genetics, and sociology to an extent. I remember researching a book on black indians in the library randomly in the library in 7th grade. I've always been fascinated by that kind of science. Another thing that always bothered me, is the ignorance of most blacks. Throughout history, that is the most marginalized race on the planet. And I don't mean just in discriminatory acts. What I also mean, is that blacks have been relegated to just a group of people who percolated in the center continent throughout history, completely isolated, and with straight-forward, simple lineage. And almost all blacks accept that. I've noticed that in black families, those who try to tie together answers about their true history, tend to be automatic black sheep, or laughing stocks. This goes right back to the championing of being ignorant of things.
I've touched on these topics many times in the past in written and spoken form. There are varying degrees of what we as a society blanket as "black." I even wrote an article a while back on how flawed of a concept race itself is. Anyway, I did a DNA test almost 10 years ago, just to get an overview of at least part of my lineage. It started as something very minor in nature. I had always been curious as to the origin of the Mongolian spot birthmarks that myself and others are born with. I also noted how I would often see people who grew up in urban settings or in America in general, who have features that denote other cultures. It always seemed like it was taboo to even think about looking into your roots as a black. You automatically get labeled as a "Tiger Woods." I never agreed with his criticism or that general ideology. Of course, I already know of many who probably would or did stop reading, to laugh at the sentence with Mongolian in it. I'll attach an article about that in this post. The point is beyond that though as it's more about regions than Mongolia the country. I'll elaborate more on race movement.
Races started from a common source, in a common region at man's start. Post-flood, many variations began to develop and migrate to different parts of a changing globe. DNA tests, test the weighting of yDNA strands to develop what are called Haplo groups. The necessity then, is to build a base of knowledge and understanding of sociology and history. I was never a master of Global history, but I do have some intrigue towards it. What you have to understand is that when the sociology is taken into consideration, you can understand what people moved where, why, who didn't move much from certain regions, what people chose to mingle, and what people chose to only conquer. In Indonesia, China, and India, amongst many other Asian countries, you find people presenting black features mixed with asian features. This is seen in Europe and other countries as well. In some cases, it was a matter of Africans migrating, and in other cases, it was a matter of the other culture migrating. This occurred with different cultures for thousands of years. Some Indians may even have Chinese features, as well as vice versa, or even Mexican or South Americans. This happens sometimes, by a culture migrating, and then slightly receding, leaving only a trace of the introduced group. This also applies to blacks, primarily Africans. This leads me to something else.
I was watching a show the other day, where a black american woman comes to tears about having low self-esteem and respect during her childhood from other blacks, for looking like what they call "Africans." That's another flawed concept that I will try to calmly address. African "blacks" are in all reality, without bias, the richer and more diverse by far of black cultures. The diversity and intermingling that I just discussed occurred through trade, conquest, or pilgrimage. The American blacks who try to stick their noses up at Africans are laughable. Who do you think was brought over in bondage as their forefathers. They were primarily unlettered field workers and farmers, from a few select regions, with similar roots. Then through slavery, you either were Geechied up and stayed the same in the south, or you had some interactions, mostly undesired with slave owners, leading to variations. If you call that stepping up above Africans, not only are you sad, but you're also extremely ignorant. And all Africans do not look alike or have the same customs. Get educated. The so-called lowly Africans that you left behind for slavery, were of higher and varying social classes, and cultured, having bartered with nations across the globe and innovated technology. In the process, there was a mutual mixing of races and cultures. The saddest case is modern times, where a more Westernized Africa allows wars and exploitation to rip it apart. But its history can be ignored, but never erased. Get that straight.
Getting back to the topic, races and cultures moved over and over again. And with genetics, a common thing that I hear people say, is that when a trait is spotted in one race from another, that it's just a coincidence. That's also ignorant. Apart from pathological mutations, which are a completely different thing, features are handed down from ancestors, the same way genetic diseases are to offspring. Just because you don't dare to open that box, doesn't mean there's nothing inside. The study that a European man did on Mongolian spots was interesting. But also, his studies on genetics and contribution to the field are impressive. He lived hundreds of years ago, having moved to Japan and married a Japanese woman, and then having kids, noticed on his children as well as some of the other children in that, and surrounding regions bearing the mark. He continued to study it, and noticed patterns. When you look at the findings, it's very informative for more than one thing. It also shows you movement. The percentages and cultures that it spread to, show you a map of where people from that region migrated over time. Just like Native Americans and Indians have some common ancestors at a point in some cases, over time some of those Eastern Asians with the propensity to develop the mutated pigmentation, migrated to other regions, and then receded over time. Their genetic code is still there. In South Africa, there are some regions where the dialect has traces of the Asian cultures that migrated through there, as well as the people having vestiges of the features. You can cover over DNA, but like matter, you can't destroy it. So the Mongolian name my daughter bears is not about a country per say, bore moreso the tail-end of a genetic line, and a region of origin.
I'm doing this test and research again, just to be more informed, and yes, to share it with my daughter when she is older. I'll update this page, maybe, when my results are in. This test should yield more than the last one. The last one only showed a map of my Paternal line. If you don't know, it's basically father's, father's, father's, father etc. So it's very limited. It did show a map of how his ancestors moved between Sicily, the Middle East, and Sudan, as well as South Africa. I'm hoping to get more info on my maternal lineage, because my mother presents an interesting foil. She does descent from slaves and has more of a Westernized lineage pattern, so I'm curious to see the variations there. Anyways, until next time. Here is the article on Mongolian Spots.------------ \/
MultiRacial Lineage
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