We are most pleased to forward Tomislav Sunic's lattest article about a topic
that is as dear to him as it is to us :
"No word in the modern Western parlance is as scary as the word `race.' It is
avoided like the plague by contemporary opinion makers, except when they
gleefully use its verbal derivative "racist" against right-wingers, White
nationalists, forever looming `neo-Nazis' and their proverbial bed fellows
`anti-Semites.'In modern science, let alone in the social sciences, the word and
the concept of race is denounced as a social construct, not being admitted as
biological reality, despite overwhelming evidence that race is not just skin
deep and that different races world-wide show marked differences in behavior,
cultural achievements, and in IQ. As professor Daniel A. Beach recently noted:
"Race pervades a great deal of social and interpersonal issues with which we
must contend, yet we have no effective way of talking about it."
Unlike their colleagues in the social sciences, many Western biologists and
geneticists are well aware of differences among races, yet they prefer to resort
to esoteric verbiage and expressions, such as "mapping the genome," or
"different gene pools" or "different haplotypes," when doing research on the
tricky subject of race.
Prior to the early 20th century the words `race' and `racist' were rarely used
in the English, French, or German languages in Europe. Everybody knew which race
he belonged to. The etymology of the word 'race' is still unclear, although most
likely it derives from the old Latin word 'radix,' meaning roots, or the German
'reiza, meaning family lineage. Its significance became ideologically loaded
only in the late 1920s. Over the last 50 years, it has undergone a total
semantic distortion. Indeed, if one were to follow the logic and discourse of
professional antiracists, peoples of European ancestry must be all certified
racists. Why? Because it is still an unwritten rule that White males and females
all over the West mate and date solely within their own race."
More at
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Sunic-Race.html#TS