https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/black-rhino/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:02:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-948 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:02:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-948 The cross cultural destructionists and the neo-racists would have us believe that anything said to be black or white imputes negative racial undertones…umm, like white lightening ( hangover provoking moonshine), and black eyed peas (delicious with cornbread, and Fergie is pretty hott too), or that black licorice is malevolence against Africans Americans.I wish they would all just use a little more white out in their revisionism, and maybe erase that whole false presumption of black and white being either positive or negative.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-947 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:00:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-947 Brian,You could spend all night looking it up and you could still be wrong. Or right. The story you give is version A, version B has to do with the first rhinos being sighted by someone being covered in white clay. Proponents of one insist the other is myth.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-946 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:26:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-946 If I remember correctly, “white rhino” is a corruption of the Dutch for “wide rhino” because it has a broader snout. But I could be wrong and I’m too relaxed to look it up tonight.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-945 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:07:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/black-rhino/#comment-945 And that was the last thing that Greg ever saw…Nice shot.

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