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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/20/home-of-north-dakota-white-supremacist-defaced-by-racist-graffiti-after-revelations-about-his-african-dna/Home of North Dakota white supremacist defaced by racist graffiti after revelations about his African DNA
By Scott Kaufman - November 20, 201
According to local prosecutors, after other white supremacists in Leith learned that Cobb possessed sub-Sarahan African DNA, one of them currently not identified by name by the police spray-painted BACK IN BLACK on Cobbs house.
Grant County Assistant States Attorney Todd Schwarz told the Los Angeles Times that the man painted on the house, BACK IN BLACK, and hes not an AC/DC fan.
It was this graffiti that led Cobb and a follower to patrol the streets of Leith over the weekend. The pair were arrested and charged with three counts of terrorizing. ..........
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Of course, I doubt Dave Allen is nothing like this POS.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)To increase his media image perhaps, by subliminal methods.
Or, maybe, he has never seen the show because it lacks purity
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)He looks like some of the guys I used to meet at the anti-war rallies I went to in the 00s. You know, grew up in the 60s, shrugged off the glitz of the Reagan administration to keep their core principles - but instead, this guy is a racist.
So, now that he's in custody AND he's a Canadian FUGITIVE, perhaps he will be extradited to Canada... problem solved! (at least with him as in one down...).
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)based on an idea by Sammy Davis, Jr., a racist tub-thumper who comes to town and incites a lynch mob has a single-car accident while leaving town and emerges from wreck a black man. And the town's all hopped up for hatred . . .
Cleita
(75,480 posts)will be a lot of surprises in store for them.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)And, as anthropologists know full well, the "races" only exist as mental concepts, nothing more. Humanity is a continuum genetically.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I wonder how much "African' DNA would be found in the white supremacists that vandalized his house? Ignorance sure does let some live in a form of hateful bliss.
bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)the whole idea of racial purity is ridiculous, and the idea that racial purity defines some kind of superiority is even more ridiculous.
Throughout most of human history, the life expectancy was about 40, due in large part to rampant chronic diseases. The best way to build immunity and resistance to disease is intermarriage among different groups. Groups that were eclectic, racially diverse, open to and practiced intermarriage developed long-term genetic advantages in the form of a robust and varied set of immune system haplotypes. "Racial purity" has always led to disadvantage and inevitable dwindling failure.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)There is a big difference between mean age of death and life expectancy of a species. Expectancy has not changed much in recent 100,000 years.
Inbreeding is a problem with genetic disadvantage. Genetic diversity is the opposite. There is no "racial purity" since there are no races.
bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)but there have been studies based on burials and historic records which include only those who reached adulthood, to arrive at an estimate of life expectancy for those who survived the infant mortality problems of the past. Mid forties is a good estimate.
http://www.sarahwoodbury.com/life-expectancy-in-the-middle-ages/
I've read several like this from similar studies, even one from Pre-spanish Mexico, which surveyed burial sites and, not accounting for children, found that adult remains averaged around 40 years old.
The availability of food has been one big change, as technology has steadily increased the reliability and abundance of the food supply. Even in the 1700's, I've read that in most areas of the world famine was, on average, a once every 15 years occurence. The difficulty of transport made things worse, as a crop failure in on region couldn't be practically mitigated by an abundance in another region. Famine led directly to disease (more often than starvation), especially prior to medical advances.
Digging a bit more - here's a good write-up on that: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/life_history/age-specific-mortality-lifespan-bad-science-2009.html
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)They will change the name to 14% to honor his ancestors.