… or at least, according to the Discovery Institutes’s own Michael Medved.<\/p>\n
The idea of a distinctive, unifying, risk-taking American DNA might also help to explain our most persistent and painful racial divide – between the progeny of every immigrant nationality that chose to come here [the source of the distinctive american DNA signal], and the one significant group that exercised no choice in making their journey to the U.S. Nothing in the horrific ordeal of African slaves, seized from their homes against their will, reflected a genetic predisposition to risk-taking, or any sort of self-selection based on personality traits. Among contemporary African-Americans, however, this very different historical background exerts a less decisive influence, because of vast waves of post-slavery black immigration. Some three million black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean arrived since 1980 alone and in big cities like New York, Boston and Miami close to half of the African-American population consists of immigrants, their children or grandchildren. The entrepreneurial energy of these newcomer communities indicates that their members display the same adventurous instincts associated with American DNA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wow, what a twisted argument. It is wrong, it is based on a moronic idea of DNA, and it is internally inconsistent.The source of this stupidity is here.<\/a> A double hat tip to Pharyngula<\/a> and Amused Muse<\/a>, who have commented all over this thing like ugly on an ape. (Sorry apes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… or at least, according to the Discovery Institutes’s own Michael Medved. The idea of a distinctive, unifying, risk-taking American DNA might also help to explain our most persistent and painful racial divide – between the progeny of every immigrant nationality that chose to come here [the source of the distinctive american DNA signal], and … Continue reading Americans: Superior because of our DNA (Sorry, everyone else, but it is what it is…)<\/span>