Myth # 3 "But there are no differences between
the races"
Maybe not in Political Correctness Land, but there are in the real
world. We can marvel at the 'natural ability' of Michael
Jordan or Donovan
Bailey and snicker at Tiger
Woods showing us a thing or two, but the very idea that differences
may extend beyond court, track or golf course makes women scream and collapse
in a dead faint.
Let's concentrate on the physical aspect, because this willful ignorance
does nothing to prepare us for the realities of our own racial legacy.
Some diseases prey on specific races: Tay
Sachs Disease (Jews), Multiple
Sclerosis (whites), Sickle
Cell Anaemia (blacks). And it may not be all bad; a single copy (from
one parent) of Sickle
Cell provides a degree of immunity to malaria.
In August, 97, researchers at Bowman
Gray School of Medicine announced that white and Hispanic populations
with insulin- resistance face higher risks of 'hardening of the arteries'
than do similarly insulin-resistant blacks. Given the fact that blacks
actually face a higher risk for stroke and heart disease, the suspicion
is that blacks somehow metabolize insulin in a completely different way.
In the same month, the Journal Cell reported that Jews, Turks, Armenians
and Arabs share a 'fever gene' which leads to bouts of familial Mediterranean
fever. Bone marrow donors for Leukemia
sufferers are selected on the basis of the most rigourously narrow racial
selection.
The discovery of 'Kennewick
Man' has forced the American government to address issues of race and
primogeniture. There is no politically correct explanation for the presence
of a 9,300 year old Caucasian skeleton in North America.
Last August, the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Centre in New York announced
the discovery of the CCR5
genetic mutation in the white population. Briefly, the gene fails to
produce a certain protein. It is that missing protein which provides a
'docking point' for the AIDS virus to enter cells. Without the protein,
a degree of immunity to the virus exists among whites.
However, in this most politicized of diseases, this remarkable discovery
has been deemed decidedly 'incorrect' and is not aggressively pursued.
Isn't it odd that while we are expected to subscribe to the currently trendy
idea that race is just a cultural thing - people are 'born' gay?