"Speak - it is our only hope" "Hope -
I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls -
has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
More than machinery we need humanity;
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people , will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . .
Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written
"the kingdom of God is within man "
- not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
. . .
Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.
The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."
domingo, 1 de janeiro de 2012
quarta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2011
In at article published by the Psychology
Today blog(May 11'), Dr Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics, wrote that black women are less attractive and intelligent than women from other racial groups.In so doing, he exposes himself as ignorant, insensitive, and bigoted.
Fortunately, the blog was removed before it could attract more attention than
it did. Enough attention was received along with vigorous protest which caused
the blog to be removed. The damage, however, had already been done.
Kanazawa first shows his ignorance by grouping all women
with dark skin as black or African. Notice his comments: “Black women are on average much heavier than nonblack women. However, this is not the reason black women are less physically attractive than nonblack women …Because they have existed much
longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have more mutations in their
genomes than other races.” One wonders where the good doctor has been the
last sixty or more years to not have gotten the word about races. He makes
reference to genomes and follows that up with a reference to race. The human
genome project resulted in finding that only once race of humans exist, and
that humans the world over are 99.95% alike.
Everything Kanazawa says about race and black women is bogus because he never defines his subjects. Scientists since the middle 1940 have agreed that the word race is no
longer useful in identifying various groups of people. The word ethnicity or
ethnic group is deemed more accurate in identifying the variety of people in
the human family. All people have ethnic and cultural identities, so to
identify someone’s identity as being a color, such as black or nonblack, is to
deny them their unique identity. To not be apprised of that information is called
ignorance. For someone to be proficient in his or her field such as social
science, that information is a necessary. For someone to base his entire thesis
on the use of terms like black, nonblack, and race shows a gross lack of
knowledge of the subject. Therefore, everything said based on that lack of
information should be disregarded and trashed. All knowledgeable scientists
know the saying “garbage in, garbage out.”
The charge of Dr. Kanazawa being insensitive is based on the fact that he
deliberately tries to paint all women with the same brush without regards to
their feelings. Ignorant people throughout the world place labels of beauty and
intelligence on women based on a variety of tangible elements like size,
complexion, hair, eyes, lips, and ethnicity. For Kanazawa to make the statement
“that black women are less attractive and intelligent than women from
other racial groups” is to make a value judgment that black women are less
attractive and intelligent than women from other racial groups that disrespects the uniqueness of each individual woman. In addition, the fact that beauty is a relative and subjective term is totally disregarded by the good doctor. Fortunately, since
everything he says is unreliable and bogus no specific emotions are damages except maybe his for showing himself to be ignorant and ill prepared to deal with a subject he know little to nothing about.
Intelligence can be measured to a certain degree given specific parameters; that is, if two people have similar experiences then they can be tested relative those
experiences. However, to bring someone into the mix that lacked the same
experiences of the first two, his or her test result will not be comparable to
the first two. In other words, intelligence as well as attractiveness must be
defined before it can be appropriated. If they are not defined, then
appropriating them has no value. Beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder,
and intelligence is considered one’s capacity to acquire and apply knowledge effectively.
With respect to Kanazawa’s overall presentation, bigotry stands out as the most prominent feature. His lack of definitions and generalities make his comments irrelevant and ineffective. His sense of values is evidently based on a culture for which he is partial, because he does not take into consideration the cultural norms
of people from other ethnic groups. He set himself up as the final orbiter or
judge of beauty and intelligence of all women, but especially so-called black
and non black women. Articles like his do more harm than good because they raise
questions and suspicions about the writer, who is supposed to be a professional
and the publishing source that is supposed to be professional. One questions
the creditability of both the writer and the source when a nonsensical and
biased article is published as quality work.
Other aspects of Kanazawa’s article only further the ridiculous, preposterous,
insensitive, and bigoted ideas regarding his opinions relative to race and
gender. The mere fact that he uses colors to identify people, black and nonblack
as if they were constants, creates serious problems in everything he says. In
essence, once he situates himself in the race box, all creditability goes out
the window. Also, his take on scholarship is greatly lacking when he refers to
African women as having been in existence longer than other women. If he really
believes that African women have been in existence longer than other women,
then where does he think the other women came from? If other women came from
mother Africa, then all women are from Africa. If all women are from Africa,
but not all women are considered black or nonblack, where do the races come
from? If he says that mutations caused the differences in the variety of women,
how does he account for the fact that the human genomes scientists report that
all people the world over vary only .05%?
When someone presumes to have information about a subject but in the process of
presenting that information shows little or no control of the subject, most
intelligent people can recognize the fool behind the mask. In the process of
presenting the bogus information the fool is exposed. Graphs, charts, and pictures
that purport to support the claims are nothing more than stage props signifying
nothing of value. Once again, garbage in, garbage out.
Today blog(May 11'), Dr Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics, wrote that black women are less attractive and intelligent than women from other racial groups.In so doing, he exposes himself as ignorant, insensitive, and bigoted.
Fortunately, the blog was removed before it could attract more attention than
it did. Enough attention was received along with vigorous protest which caused
the blog to be removed. The damage, however, had already been done.
Kanazawa first shows his ignorance by grouping all women
with dark skin as black or African. Notice his comments: “Black women are on average much heavier than nonblack women. However, this is not the reason black women are less physically attractive than nonblack women …Because they have existed much
longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have more mutations in their
genomes than other races.” One wonders where the good doctor has been the
last sixty or more years to not have gotten the word about races. He makes
reference to genomes and follows that up with a reference to race. The human
genome project resulted in finding that only once race of humans exist, and
that humans the world over are 99.95% alike.
Everything Kanazawa says about race and black women is bogus because he never defines his subjects. Scientists since the middle 1940 have agreed that the word race is no
longer useful in identifying various groups of people. The word ethnicity or
ethnic group is deemed more accurate in identifying the variety of people in
the human family. All people have ethnic and cultural identities, so to
identify someone’s identity as being a color, such as black or nonblack, is to
deny them their unique identity. To not be apprised of that information is called
ignorance. For someone to be proficient in his or her field such as social
science, that information is a necessary. For someone to base his entire thesis
on the use of terms like black, nonblack, and race shows a gross lack of
knowledge of the subject. Therefore, everything said based on that lack of
information should be disregarded and trashed. All knowledgeable scientists
know the saying “garbage in, garbage out.”
The charge of Dr. Kanazawa being insensitive is based on the fact that he
deliberately tries to paint all women with the same brush without regards to
their feelings. Ignorant people throughout the world place labels of beauty and
intelligence on women based on a variety of tangible elements like size,
complexion, hair, eyes, lips, and ethnicity. For Kanazawa to make the statement
“that black women are less attractive and intelligent than women from
other racial groups” is to make a value judgment that black women are less
attractive and intelligent than women from other racial groups that disrespects the uniqueness of each individual woman. In addition, the fact that beauty is a relative and subjective term is totally disregarded by the good doctor. Fortunately, since
everything he says is unreliable and bogus no specific emotions are damages except maybe his for showing himself to be ignorant and ill prepared to deal with a subject he know little to nothing about.
Intelligence can be measured to a certain degree given specific parameters; that is, if two people have similar experiences then they can be tested relative those
experiences. However, to bring someone into the mix that lacked the same
experiences of the first two, his or her test result will not be comparable to
the first two. In other words, intelligence as well as attractiveness must be
defined before it can be appropriated. If they are not defined, then
appropriating them has no value. Beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder,
and intelligence is considered one’s capacity to acquire and apply knowledge effectively.
With respect to Kanazawa’s overall presentation, bigotry stands out as the most prominent feature. His lack of definitions and generalities make his comments irrelevant and ineffective. His sense of values is evidently based on a culture for which he is partial, because he does not take into consideration the cultural norms
of people from other ethnic groups. He set himself up as the final orbiter or
judge of beauty and intelligence of all women, but especially so-called black
and non black women. Articles like his do more harm than good because they raise
questions and suspicions about the writer, who is supposed to be a professional
and the publishing source that is supposed to be professional. One questions
the creditability of both the writer and the source when a nonsensical and
biased article is published as quality work.
Other aspects of Kanazawa’s article only further the ridiculous, preposterous,
insensitive, and bigoted ideas regarding his opinions relative to race and
gender. The mere fact that he uses colors to identify people, black and nonblack
as if they were constants, creates serious problems in everything he says. In
essence, once he situates himself in the race box, all creditability goes out
the window. Also, his take on scholarship is greatly lacking when he refers to
African women as having been in existence longer than other women. If he really
believes that African women have been in existence longer than other women,
then where does he think the other women came from? If other women came from
mother Africa, then all women are from Africa. If all women are from Africa,
but not all women are considered black or nonblack, where do the races come
from? If he says that mutations caused the differences in the variety of women,
how does he account for the fact that the human genomes scientists report that
all people the world over vary only .05%?
When someone presumes to have information about a subject but in the process of
presenting that information shows little or no control of the subject, most
intelligent people can recognize the fool behind the mask. In the process of
presenting the bogus information the fool is exposed. Graphs, charts, and pictures
that purport to support the claims are nothing more than stage props signifying
nothing of value. Once again, garbage in, garbage out.
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