{"id":77924,"date":"2018-05-31T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77924"},"modified":"2018-05-31T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:34:27","slug":"black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/31\/black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

chandrasoma rajapakse\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

While admiring the zeal\u00a0 and burning patriotism of your editorial correspondent (Miss Waduge) it must be stated that there is no warrant in science to support her ‘burning’ thesis – that ‘Black People’ are the founders of civilization and ‘progenitors’ of all that is bright and beautiful in our troubled world. The word\u00a0 ‘black’ refers to a phenotype – not a genotype. Thus the Nileotic Negros of Africa and the Negritos of the Pacific Island Region are solidly black – while being distinct in ancestry and in genetic markers that identify kinship.<\/p>\n

The Veddhas of Sri Lanka are black – so are the primitive Hill Tribes of Southern India but it would be extraordinarily naive to suppose this ‘blackness’ is a genetic marker of kinship. The undeniable fact is that ‘blackness’ is strongly correlated with the arid conditions of the habitat and (negatively] with the kind of social advancement seen in both Mongoloids and Caucasoids.<\/p>\n

There is no record of truly black people building cities and founding civilization – let alone opening doors for the advancement of science and civilization of the kind that the White Races are renowned for – indeed, our indebtedness to the pioneering civilizations of the White or Western Nations is so obvious that only the chronically purblind will advance a thesis that denies this foundational truth. It pains some – the bogus nationalists – that the ‘Sinhalayas’ are Black and the Whites constitute a force of\u00a0 ‘invading aliens’ that threaten our indigenous purity of racial affiliation and cultural uniqueness. The painful truth is that we became better and safer after Kings, Nobles and other social parasites were thrown out and the forces of secular and humane justice took hold – thanks to the White Invader.<\/p>\n

A final point – the Sinhalayas are not black\u00a0 – they are ‘yellow -brown’ mostly – with strongly Caucasoid features. Indeed the famous ‘White’ – Robert Knox – found the Kandyans of the Hill Country to be very much like his kinsfolk in distant England.<\/p>\n

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chandrasoma rajapakse\u00a0 While admiring the zeal\u00a0 and burning patriotism of your editorial correspondent (Miss Waduge) it must be stated that there is no warrant in science to support her ‘burning’ thesis – that ‘Black People’ are the founders of civilization and ‘progenitors’ of all that is bright and beautiful in our troubled world. The word\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}