Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided (Full Episode/Black in Latin Am.)

[Hoseman]

Not sure what your point is here, but if you're implying that there was anything remotely human around at the time before the continents split from the single land mass of Pangea, you're quite mistaken. In fact, as the link above shows, the New World and Old World continents had split off completely by the Cretaceous period, which was still well before our earliest ancestors walked the earth.

OTOH, it's a pretty safe bet that the only people in the New World prior to Columbus' arrival were native peoples that had in fact migrated from Asia, and nearly all the people of African descent that arrived over the first few centuries did in fact arrive on slave ships. That's not meant in any way to denigrate anyone's racial heritage - that's just the way it happened.

BTW - thanks to Hugrad for the links - enjoying this series a lot...

There was no new world just a different country and Colubus set ougt to prove the world was round right

[Hoseman]

I am going to leave this subject alone it never gets any where.

[Corrado]

Talk about race is totally academic. There is only one race of human being on the Planet Earth, Homo Sapien Sapien. There are no other races of man on Earth apart from this one. There are however multiple ethnicity, and geo-cultural catgories of Homo Sapien. There are 7 types of biological classification. All Human Beings living on this planet today are in the same 7 types as everyone else.

Race is a social construct not a genetic one. The reality is that society focuses on skin color and makes it an issue...... so it becomes one.

[Hoseman]

Talk about race is totally academic. There is only one race of human being on the Planet Earth, Homo Sapien Sapien. There are no other races of man on Earth apart from this one. There are however multiple ethnicity, and geo-cultural catgories of Homo Sapien. There are 7 types of biological classification. All Human Beings living on this planet today are in the same 7 types as everyone else.

Race is a social construct not a genetic one. The reality is that society focuses on skin color and makes it an issue...... so it becomes one.

Tell it like it is.

[DCIronman]

Hmm. I believe you're confusing race with species. I'm pretty sure that the term "homo sapien" refers to the species of human.

"Race" refers to slight genetic differences within the species. Strictly speaking.