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Filmmaker: Give Me $20,000 So David Childress Can Tell You Why the Olmec Were Actually African

10/3/2014

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Afrocentrism doesn’t sell as well as Eurocentrism to judge from the miserable performance of a diffusionist Kickstarter campaign promising new claims from a familiar face.

A production starring ancient astronaut theorist David Childress is seeking $20,000 in donations to fund an Afrocentric documentary on the Olmec. In a poorly written press release distributed online yesterday, producer Lee Sullivan announced his and David Childress’s belief that the Olmec became the guardians of the Ark of the Covenant in 600 BCE and directed interested fans to his website, whose URL misspells the name of the Olmec, testifying to the care with which he is approaching this bizarre hypothesis.

As of this writing, $325 has been pledged to the campaign since it launched on September 17.
On Ancient Aliens David Childress previously speculated about the Ark of the Covenant being hidden in the United States or Canada, and in his 1980s books he speculated about a Near East location. In his 1989 book Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of Africa and Arabia, Childress asserted that Jewish bankers, particularly the Rothschilds (the “Jewish banking family that has controlled Europe’s monetary wealth for hundreds of years”), were conspiring with the Illuminati to hide the Ark as part of a plot to control the world’s economy and bring about the Apocalypse of Revelation.

As with so many of Childress’s early claims, that one, too, is no longer operative since joining Ancient Aliens full time and embracing the ancient astronaut theory he for so long claimed to find illogical.
PictureThe "Asian" and "African" statue as seen on Sullivan's Kickstarter page.
In a YouTube video Sullivan, who is black, discusses the “distinctly African characteristics” he sees in Olmec and Central American sculptures, a claim that originated in the nineteenth century and has been repeatedly debunked for more than 120 years. Olmec sculptures bear their closest physiological resemblance to the indigenous people of the Olmec heartland in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, and other Native art from Mesoamerica similarly reflects the traits of the people who lived in and around where it was created. 

Sullivan states that the Ark of the Covenant passed through Barilles, Panama and was stored in the volcano of Chiriqui. He attributes the claim to “some researchers.” One of them is Edna Houx, a UFO witness who lives near Barilles and claims that a heavily stylized statue found there depicts a Chinese man riding on the shoulders of an African man. According Houx, the Ark was found in Barilles (and apparently covered up somehow), though she did not tell travel writer Jim O’Donnell who did the discovering.

Houx, who owns and operates the Barilles archaeological site according to her beliefs, claims that Chinese and African colonists founded Barilles around 1000 BCE to take advantage of its “healing stones.” Archaeologists, however, believe the site was at its height around 650 CE, a number Sullivan transforms to 650 BCE to better align with Biblical chronology, which has the Ark disappear sometime around 587 BCE. Radiocarbon dates suggest that the site was founded around 300 CE and was occupied until around 900 CE. Although there were likely people living in the region in 650 BCE, there is no archaeological evidence for a major settlement or monumental architecture at that time.

Sullivan takes Houx at her word and believes that Panama was colonized by Chinese and African explorers who bequeathed their superior culture to the barbarous natives while leaving behind no Old World artifacts, objects, or plants. Sullivan describes his first meeting with David Childress, which he said occurred when Childress barged into a classroom where Sullivan was contemplating Panamanian prehistory, looking for directions. “I realized that was the person who might have the answers to this question” of the Chinese-African origin of New World civilization. He tried to chase down Childress, who had already sped away, prompting Sullivan to show up at a Childress book signing in Arizona. Childress, according to Sullivan, agreed to participate in Sullivan’s documentary if Sullivan would buy two of Childress’s books. The two subsequently went on a world tour of ancient sites, though at whose expense Sullivan does not say.

Sullivan asserts that the New York Times calls David Childress “the Indiana Jones of our times.” A ProQuest database search of the New York Times from 1851 to today failed to turn up any results for this alleged quotation, or anything similar. The phrase “real-life Indiana Jones” was part of Childress’s self-written promotional materials during his “maverick archaeologist” phase in the 1990s, before being called out for calling himself an archaeologist without possessing a degree in the subject or working professionally in the field. That claim, too, became inoperative after he joined Ancient Aliens.
59 Comments
Matt Mc
10/3/2014 02:02:00 am

I find it really hard to fault any filmmaker when they go to places like Kickstarter (although there are better places to go with less fees) to fund a Documentary or Movie.

While I think the subject of this one is ridiculous I think it is wrong to fault someone for having an idea and trying to raise funds outside the "normal" system to fund a indie Documentary. Regardless of the subject I think the push that crowd sourcing has given to potential filmmakers realize there goal is a good thing.

Let the subject stand for itself under scrutiny once it is made, more than likely it wont, or if it is it will have such little attention given to it that only the people who donated and get a dvd will ever see it.

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Jason Colavito link
10/3/2014 03:00:10 am

You've made a good point, Matt, and I really am not half as interested in the fact that Sullivan is trying to fund his film as I am in the fact that he seems not to understand the subject matter and wants donors to pay him to make a film based on false premises and wrong information. I've amended the sentence to remove the remark about profit.

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666
10/3/2014 03:35:39 am

>>no archaeological evidence for a major settlement or monumental architecture at that time.

Not even any ancient traditions, certainly no ancient verifiable texts

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666
10/3/2014 03:38:37 am

>>> Ark of the Covenant being hidden in the United States or Canada

Was there ever a "prototype" version in existence?
And if ever such a thing existed (for argument's sake) - did it survive to the period of King David. Wouldn't the original Ark have been modified time and time again, to fit the belief patterns of the priest's concerned

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EP
10/3/2014 05:24:00 am

Clearly, Jason's Black IQ (Intelligence Quotion) isn't very high:

http://www.blackconsciousness.com/BlackIQTest.html

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EP
10/3/2014 05:27:33 am

David Childress: "Afrocentrism makes me look slim!"

http://www.einpresswire.com/image/large/5616/david-childress.jpeg#700x529

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Shane Sullivan
10/3/2014 05:44:20 am

No need to be insulting, EP. Childress actually looks quite good considering that, two decades ago, he was eaten by a dinosaur on an island off Costa Rica.

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EP
10/3/2014 06:07:34 am

"he was eaten by a dinosaur on an island off Costa Rica"

I'm assuming you meant "ate a dinosaur on an island off Costa Rica"...

EP
10/3/2014 06:42:58 am

Afrocentrism is the new black! :D

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Shane Sullivan
10/3/2014 05:37:02 am

"... producer Lee Sullivan ..."

No relation, as far as I know.

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EP
10/3/2014 05:39:44 am

There is only one scientific way to check.

Take the Black IQ Test. Come on, you know you want to! :)

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Shane Sullivan
10/3/2014 06:41:56 am

I got 42 out of 60. I was torn between choosing the answer that was actually correct, and choosing the answer they were clearly looking for... plus, for about two-thirds of the test I was listening to Tower of Power, and for the remaining third I was listening to Danzig. That probably threw my score.

EP
10/3/2014 06:43:50 am

"I got 42 out of 60"

Pretty fly... for a white guy! :)

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 07:04:46 am

Wow, if we call others out for promoting racism suggesting or promoting a Black IQ test deserves the same.

So sad, very very sad. Gotta love it when people do things even in a joking manner to promote and mock stereotypes

EP
10/3/2014 07:13:56 am

You realize it's not a parody, right? It's what someone with this worldview thought is a good idea.

Insofar as The Black IQ Test is itself racist (and it is), us mocking it is indeed consistent.

You should check it out, Matt Mc, if you haven't already. I'm sure you'd agree...

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 07:22:42 am

I know its not a parody and it was made by a black man.

I just do not see it as a joke nor do I find it very funny.

I guess I take issue with the joking about racism than I do the mentioning of the test.

Having experienced my fair share of racism in my like and seen other horrible acts I really just do find it that funny even if it is ment in a mocking way. I believe racism must be called out at all times even if it is ment as parody or jest.

I do not think the a good way to respond to racist attitudes is the be racially mocking.

I just feel if one wants to confront racist attitudes jokingly playing into them does not support the confrontation.

EP
10/3/2014 07:28:11 am

We joke about the Neo-Nazis all the time. How is this different?

Where is your disapprobation when we do that?

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 07:40:20 am

Its there, I just thought this warranted being addressed. It reminds me of jokes that racists make and then use the fact it was a joke as a way to dismiss the very real racial commentary behind it.

And if you all think I am joking about the statements I have made about Rev and Wolter regarding Nazi's are jokes, they are not. What both have done sickens me.

I also ignore stuff from certain posters who go by many names here because I refuse to interact with them at all.

I stand behind my feeling that you cannot be critical of racism and make jokes the generalize like this. IMHO that is one of the reason racism is and will be so ingrained in the world.

And honestly I expected better from people I consider having intelligence.



EP
10/3/2014 07:44:41 am

So... I don't get it... Are you saying that people who do not share your sense of humor are racists? Or are you saying that jokes that are explicitly and clearly directed at racists are themselves contributing to racism? (Wait, you *are* saying the latter...)

Also, I don't understand what you mean by jokes "that generalize like this". Generalize like what?

Uncle Ron
10/3/2014 07:45:37 am

@ Matt Mc

"I do not think <that> a good way to respond to racist attitudes is <to> be racially mocking."

A lot of black comedians would disagree. It's called "satire".

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 07:51:11 am

You really just like to argue don't you?

I thought you joke and Shane response was in bad taste.

And know I do not think you are racist but jokes like that help promote racism even if it is unintended.

As with everyone I deal with in life I will continue to call out things that I believe promote racism even if they are not from people I believe are racist, you do not have to like it, listen to it, or agree with it but I will do it.

Have a good day and please find someone else to try to argue endlessly with, there is nothing you can say or will do that is going to change my opinion about what I see as a racist joke that even if unintended is promoting racist attitudes.

666
10/3/2014 07:53:01 am

>>>A lot of black comedians would disagree. It's called "satire".

Uncle Ron,

We now live in a world where Irish comedians are not allowed to joke about themselves anymore, this has existed for over a decade, in actual fact.

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 07:54:11 am

anyone can disagree with me Ron,

And I would say the same thing I am saying here to those black (and white) comedians I did to David Chappele and we had a great long conversation about it. I sure as hell did not change his mind but he did think about it.

EP
10/3/2014 07:55:08 am

"You really just like to argue don't you?"

That has nothing to do with whether you're right.

"jokes like that help promote racism even if it is unintended."

How do they do that?

"there is nothing you can say or will do that is going to change my opinion"

But could you at least explain *how* making fun of racists is supposed to promote racism?

666
10/3/2014 07:56:10 am

>>>And know I do not think you are racist but jokes like that help promote racism even if it is unintended.

Yeee = the jokes about the Irishman, Scotsman, Welshman, English Man have also been kicked into touch in the name of "good taste"

Yuk, political correctness is nothing except vomit and faeces

EP
10/3/2014 08:12:04 am

In summary:

Matt Mc thinks that he knows better than black comedians which of the jokes they make promote racism towards black people. Apparently, in addition to not getting satire, Matt Mc doesn't get irony.

By claiming that he knows that "a black man" wrote the ridiculous test that deserves all of our mockery and more, Matt Mc. Is promoting sexist attitudes. (How does he know that a black woman didn't write it?)

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 08:33:26 am

In Summary EP just like to argue and to think he knows everything.

I made no claim to knowing more than anyone else. I have my opinions and I stand by them. Yes have I had conversations about racism with comedians, yes, I have also had the same conversations (and conversations about politics, music, movies, ect) with politicians, actors, and activists. My opinions are just that mine. It is one of the advantages of my chosen career that I frequently come into contact with high profile people and when given the opportunity I talk to them about relevant subject, in the case of Dave Chappele that does not apply, I know him from mutual friends from high school and I talk to him a few times a year.

I do not why it is so hard to understand that they are my opinions. Just because I choose to think you made a bad joke in bad taste does not mean you need to get all hurt over it.

Mock me, make fun on me, all you want but nothing will change the fact that my opinion is your joke was bad and I disagreed with the racist tone I perceived in it.

as to how I know a black Man wrote the test it is because it was written by a black Man named Robert Williams and was the subject of great debate 5 years ago when he wrote it. I was introduced to it myself while working on a program with Tavis Smiley about racial stereotypes within the black community back in 2009.



Matt Mc
10/3/2014 08:43:28 am

I am sorry I made a mistake I thought the test was just made when I worked on the Tavis Smiley show but in fact in was made in 1972 it was just one of the things that was addressed on the show,

here is the wiki link so you can learn more about the test itself since I take it you did not know about it very well


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Intelligence_Test_of_Cultural_Homogeneity

EP
10/3/2014 08:45:01 am

Fair enough, I was mostly joking around there... Hope *that's* not racist... :)

So... Seriously, could you please explain how is it that you think that making fun of racism helps promote racism? I still don't understand what exactly you're taking issue with...

"The Black IQ Test (Intellect Quotion)" is obvioulsy worthy of mockery. As is whoever wrote it or promotes it. They are obviously not worthy of any more respect than White Supremacists. (They are arguably less dangerous, but that's a different issue.)

To the extent that pseudo-historical and pseudo-scientific myths falling under the Afrocentrist umbrella are widespread within the Afrtican-American community, it's a serious social menace. Debating its merits is kinda like debating the merits of racially motivated diffusionism.

EP
10/3/2014 08:48:47 am

Oh, and the test you're talking about is not the same test as the one I'm talking about. Mine was "composed and produced by Booty Adams in 1999". Perhaps you should have looked into it better before getting outraged.

Also, I neither know nor care who "Booty Adams" is, but the only thing that saves you from accusations of sexism now is that you had the tests confused :)

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 09:03:47 am

I look at it this way, we are so ingrained in racist beliefs as a whole that even or jokes or mockery of it helps re-enforce and root racist thoughts. I think that is as simple as I can put it, perhaps to simple.

I think make fun of the person not the the identifiers. We focus on cultural, social, and religious differences so much as part of our everyday lives that in even mocking the ones that go to the extreme in identification we are still giving support to that, that separates us.

Like the B.I.T.C.H. test itself. its original porpuse was to show that our aptitude test are culturally biased with a European slant and when presented with a aptitude test biased to a ex slave slant those who performed well on the normal tests fail. The point it makes is valid however the test itself is full of generalizations and almost self parody of the group it is trying to support that it fails in presentation. Furthermore in it strengthens the divide in races instead of lessening it. Much like Williams other idea when he coined the term EBONICS, while it may be empowering to a group of people it furthers the racial stereotype and divide.

So simply put sometimes (a lot of the time) by making fun of a stereotype we in further root it into the fabric of a cultural perception even if unintentional and thus it becomes part of the problem.

EP
10/3/2014 09:10:50 am

Look at you not being belligerent all of the sudden... Maybe if you'd done what I suggested at the very beginning and actually looked at what I'd linked instead of jumping to conclusions we'd not have the irony of you talking about what I am and am not familiar with... :)

As far as the substance of your complaint, at least I understand it better now. I disagree, as do most people around here, I would imagine (correct me if I'm wrong everybody). Also, if you don't show proportionate disapproval of all other jokes using "identifiers", you're going to come across as a hypocrite. Not because I said so, but because that's how it is.

Matt Mc
10/3/2014 09:31:30 am

Like I said I dont mind being wrong and I still think the joke was in poor taste. I also know there are a good deal of people who agree with how I feel that the only way to fight racism is not to empower it whether it is positive or negative empowerment.

And I did just now see notice the link you posted (still in bad taste and still a bad joke) thanks to the way this blog works, I only noticed your response to Shane and well since there is a real Black IQ test I thought you were talking about that.

Like I mentioned before there are many comments and replies I think are in bad taste that I do not feel warrant a response, mostly because that mean engaging with people who post on here that are not worth engaging.

EP
10/3/2014 09:37:07 am

As long as you're aware that lots and lots of people (of all races) agree that satire is a great tool for combating racism (and other forms of bigortry and ignorance), there is no reason not to agree to disagree...

I do recommed you take The Black IQ Test (Intellect Quotion)... and if you do, I hope you share your score with the class :)

Shane Sullivan
10/3/2014 11:16:02 am

Oh, it looks like the arguing petered out while I was away. Cool.

Well, I'll just say what I was going to say: Matt Mc, I respect your opinion but I don't share it. I not only feel that disgusting things like racism deserve our derision and our mockery (which I believe disempowers them), but I also would be a sad, sad man if I couldn't use humor to deal with things that disgust me.

But, as EP said, agree to disagree. I'm glad we could settle this peaceably.

titus pullo
10/3/2014 06:25:26 am

I can't knock the idea to raise money for a documentary or film using kickstart/crowd sourcing-from what little I know (thanks to my son who is hoping to be a director someday) trying to get traditional funding is very difficult. That said $20K would probably cover the costs of some wacky documentary they then could sell on line. I'm sure they have already done the cash flows, the question is what do they want for the 20K? 10% of Gross Revenue?

BTW, I was traveling this week and downloaded Nick Pope's new book on the Rendelshiem UFO and it was sort of half objective and half true believer, he tended to gloss over the gaps in the various witnesses stories which changed over time and didn't come up with his opinion leaving the door open for more books I guess while creating an impression that "something vary unnatural" occurred. I also read "War and Gold" by Kwasi Katange a Brit Tory MP which I found to be much more interesting.

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gabriel darke link
10/3/2014 06:29:08 am

A chance meeting, dramatic pursuit, gift of information and advice, then ebullient praise. This scenario sounds about as believable as the Afrocentric premise does. Isn't it more likely these guys got together over coffee or a phone call and roughed the whole thing out, including the fable that starts it off?

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EP
10/3/2014 12:01:14 pm

Just to be clear, when we're talking about "Afrocentrism" and "Black Consciousness" we aren't talking about anything remotely like the ideas of, say, either W. E. B. Du Bois or Martin Luther King. We are talking about people like this:

http://astore.amazon.com/consciousbooks1013-20/detail/1886433127
http://astore.amazon.com/consciousbooks1013-20/detail/1592321860
http://astore.amazon.com/consciousbooks1013-20/detail/1594774722
http://astore.amazon.com/consciousbooks1013-20/detail/0912469307

Yes, the last link is to a book called "The Jewish Onslaught", which is the sort of thing a Jewish professor got for her criticism of the teaching of Afrocentrist pseudo-history at Wellesley. (All these books are offered via the online bookstore on the same website that hosts "The Black IQ Test (Intellect Quotion)".)

These jackasses no more represent and have the right to speak on behalf of black people than the likes of Frank Joseph represent and have the right to speak on behalf of white people. If anything, this stuff is less organically tied to the culture of African-Americans, since much of it is cribbed from white (often racist) fringe sources frequently discussed on this blog.

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Pacal
10/3/2014 12:54:03 pm

The idea that the Olmec's were African, or at least their elite was of African origin is one of the most annoying yet pervasive archeological myths out there. The fact that there is zero evidence for it doesn't seem to phase the true believers at all. From the late Ivan Sertima to Graham Hancock to the myriad of diffusionistic theorists we get this bilge. All of it based on the idea that Olmec sculpture "looks like" sub-Saharan Africans. Of course the simple fact that the sculptures look like natives who live in the area today is ignored. Also ignored is the fact that many of the statues are depictions of shamanistic transformation. In this case transformation into a Jaguar! So many of the features are in fact "were-Jaguar" features.

Also infinitely annoying is the assumption that portrayls of bearded figures are portraits of non-Indians, because we all know male Indians can't grow beards.(Snark!) Stuff and nonsense. Although male Indians are on average less hairy than male Europeans and Africans some male Indians can indeed grow beards, and that is enough to account for the depictions of bearded individuals in pre-Columbian art.

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EP
10/3/2014 12:59:35 pm

Not to mention that they could have worn makeup and false beards. Like Egyptian pharaohs did :)

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Pacal
10/3/2014 02:19:28 pm

Actually one of the more authentic Indian legends concerning the God Quetzalcoatl records that has he was leaving Tollan (Tula) he put on a beard composed of feathers. Of course Diffusionists who talk about Quetzalcoatl being a "White God" invariably forget or just plain don't know that the God is almost always colored pitch black in Mexican codices. In Pre-Columbian society Priests were often called Quetzalcoatl and panted themselves black. This goes back to a myth that in order to get the sun to move Quetzalcoatl sacrificed some of his fellow gods and fed their blood and hearts to nourish the Sun and get it moving.

Shane Sullivan
10/3/2014 03:23:46 pm

Not to mention the fact that parallel to Quetzalcoatl's association with the color white are Huitzilopochtli's ties to the color blue--yet, curiously, nobody ever claims that the Aztecs were visited by Smurfs.

EP
10/3/2014 03:30:04 pm

Y'all need to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIfQHKe8pSo

Dave Lewis
10/3/2014 02:01:41 pm

"Houx" is the past tense of "hoax"

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Not Scot Wolter
10/3/2014 02:09:33 pm

"Sullivan asserts that the New York Times calls David Childress “the Indiana Jones of our times.” "

Lies! Everybody knows that I am the Indiana Jones of our times! I have the hat to prove it!

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EP
10/3/2014 02:12:54 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sp3dIyNA2A

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Not Steve St Clair
10/3/2014 02:13:38 pm

Broski, you are way more butch than David Hatcher Childress!

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Not Rev Phil Gotsch
10/3/2014 02:16:35 pm

I have known Scott Wolter for 25+ years as both a personal friend and a professional colleague …

...He is the Indiana Jones of our times....

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EP
10/3/2014 02:21:25 pm

What an odd gimmick... I wonder who's behind it... :)

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..
10/3/2014 02:16:58 pm

You are all racist elitists and this article is racist. Well be sure to get it around

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EP
10/3/2014 02:20:06 pm

Before you leave, what's *your* Black IQ (Intellect Quotion)? :)

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Only Me
10/3/2014 04:58:21 pm

.., perhaps you'd like to explain what is NOT intrinsically racist about Afrocentrists trying to appropriate cultural artifacts from a Mesoamerican society whose descendants are still living where their ancestors thrived...in service of their own racial identity.

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Kal
10/5/2014 07:59:06 am

The Ark was taken by the Babylonians when they invaded and lost, despite the lost tribe of Lamba in Africa claiming to have it, but there is not one shred of real evidence of it crossing the Atlantic.

As for racial jokes, they're not funny when used against others to belittle their race. If the person is making fun of his own race, fine but as soon as someone of another race repeats the joke, it's racist. It's like how black people can use the N word but if white people copy them and use it, they're racist. The IQ test line was just lame, not a joke, because it is not funny.

A joke is a story with a humorous climax or juxtaposition. There was none. No punchline. The joke there seems to be 'see people (of a certain creed) are dumb'. That's not exceptionally even clever.

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EP
10/5/2014 08:13:14 am

"The IQ test line was just lame, not a joke, because it is not funny"

Obviously you didn't take the test :)

And yes, people of the "Black Conscious" creed(s) (Nuwaubians, etc.) *are* dumb. Dumber than Scientologists or even Raelians.

You don't seriously think there is something wrong with making fun of the Scientologists, do you?

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Kal
10/5/2014 04:40:39 pm

I'm not a Scientologist and I'm not going to reveal my whereabouts or race to EP, or any other personal details. Wikipedia makes many posters seem smart. Never heard of the movement till I looked it up, but it ended a long time ago. Wasn't sticking up for the test but just over explaining why racial humor isn't funny. I'll leave social politics to those educated in such things. I prefer talking about how silly ancient aliens are.

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EP
10/5/2014 05:36:46 pm

Clearly ancient aliens and racial politics never intersect...

"Wikipedia makes many posters seem smart"

I don't what you're trying to say or what Wikipedia has to do with any of this...

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Kal
10/6/2014 10:45:24 am

Many posters of these blogs just crib quotes from wikipedia to look smarter. That is what I meant.

I've never met a Raelian so I'll have to take your word for it.

Sure racial politics is a factor in fringe alien theories, so whether or not I choose to rant about it is of little consequence.

Having an opinion about humor is not a crime or even a sin.

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EP
10/6/2014 12:37:37 pm

Sinner, I condemn thee to Hell!

Just kidding, you're cool :)

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EP
10/23/2014 06:28:17 am

As of right now, pledges sit at $75, after being down to $25.

Afrocentrism is really lacking some idle rich sponsors.

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