Re: guns, germs, steel

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> "Ricardo Duchesne" <RDUCHESN@xxxxxxxx> 04/10/00 04:27PM >>>

> Because, he would say, that region is not Africa, that is, Black
> Africa.
>
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> CB: What does being BLACK Africa have to do with "ecological/geographical
 conditions" ? Sounds like Diamond has an inconsistent and racist theory.

Simply saying that one can, as  Diamond does, draw a rough line accross
the African continent to distinguish "white" Africa from "black" Africa
proper.  Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Libyans and others in the
Northern areas are "white".

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CB: Yea, I know. How white of him to make the "superior" Africans honorary whites.

CB