Google doodle honors "afrocentrism" and blm

[Wallenburg]

We're all black. I shit you not.

As a social construct, false.
As a biological phenomenon, also false since race doesn't exist.

It sure does. We are all part of the human race.
#umactually

EDIT: Except for Monitor, but we love her all the same.

[Napkiraly]

As a social construct, false.
As a biological phenomenon, also false since race doesn't exist.

It sure does. We are all part of the human race.
#umactually

EDIT: Except for Monitor, but we love her all the same.

Humanity is actually a subspecies, not a race.

Yeah, Monitor is an honourary human.

[Senkaku]

Google uses white people and nobody bats an idea.

Google suddenly doesn't use white people for a change and OP loses his mind.

Seriously now.

My only concern are the symbols of Ancient Egypt within the mural. While Ancient Egypt had black people within its population it wasn't a "black" civilization. The people in Egypt are the primary descendants of those Egyptians, with the Copts being descended linguistically. Unsurprisingly, of course.

I would guess it was more of a pan-African thing than a purely black thing, but who knows. Maybe a throwback to Egypt's Nubian dynasty. Maybe just historical inaccuracy. It's a bloody Google Doodle, after all.

[TotallyNotEvilLand]

Suddenly because it honors black people it's afrocentrism, yet I don't see your ass whining when it's white people on there.

At least be equal in your incoherent rantings, will you? For someone who whines about SJWs you sure act like one.

[WhyHelloThere]

I didn't get the impression she was referring to "afrocentrism" in the sense of the historical field of questionable scientific merit. It seemed like she was just referring more generally to having been raised in a civil rights tradition and learning the history of African Americans.

[USS Monitor]

My only concern are the symbols of Ancient Egypt within the mural. While Ancient Egypt had black people within its population it wasn't a "black" civilization. The people in Egypt are the primary descendants of those Egyptians, with the Copts being descended linguistically. Unsurprisingly, of course.

So? Maybe the person who made the doodle just thinks Egyptian stuff is cool.

[USS Monitor]

Yep. Charlemagne was whitewashed apparently. Same with Beethoven.

I give up on liberalism.

Bill Clinton was black too.

[Dahon]

I give up on liberalism.

Bill Clinton was black too.

You're black yo -- I'm black yo -- bee-bee-blackity-black we're all black yo --

-- or if it makes some people feel better --

-- you're white yo -- I'm white yo -- waa-waa-whitey-wa-white we're all white yo --

[Tahar Joblis]

We're all black. I shit you not.

As a social construct, false.
As a biological phenomenon, also false since race doesn't exist.

Forensic anthropologists can and do identify membership in traditional racial categories based on skeletal features... mostly accurately. Computers can identify membership in the major racial categories within the US population by DNA analysis, very sharply. Globally, somewhat less sharply, as the distribution of genes tends to look a lot more continuous on the map, while within the US population specifically you have recent migration from very discrete clusters; but there are some very interesting differences in genetics across the human globe, in particular involving some spare change from other branches of the Homo lineage - some Neanderthal DNA is present in virtually all non-African populations, Denisovan DNA is present in a lot of Asian populations (and makes up a larger share of Melanesian DNA), and a third archaic branch of Homo, yet unidentified, appears to account for a couple percent of the DNA in some sub-Saharan populations.

Of course, while human genotype and phenotype vary fairly continuously geographically, human geography itself has had some major choke-points and barriers. Which is why we see patterns like that; geographical barriers have been powerful enough to prevent major lineage contributions (such as the Denisovan lineage) from showing up across the entire human globe.

To say that race doesn't exist is a rather silly concept. If you pick a random person off the street in the US, ask them to identify their own race, ask a pair of witnesses to identify their race, send their DNA off to be analyzed by an expert with a computer and a comparison population, and then finally take a high-resolution scan of their skeleton and send it to a forensic anthropologist, odds are good that all five people will agree on which racial category to put that person in.

Are there problems with categorizing people into discrete racial categories? Yes. Are there borderline cases? Very definitely yes. Are there cases where the categorizations will disagree wildly? Yes. But does a spectrum of correlated variation in phenotype and genotype exist, creating a distinctive pattern of "race" that is by and large visible from within a given group, to the degree of people being able to identify members of their own group and non-members of their group, with the main exceptions being people of geographically diverse and recently combined heritage ("mixed race")? Yes.

[Alvecia]

This wasn't technically Google.

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Now in its 8th year, the Doodle 4 Google Competition challenges young artists to create their own Doodle. This year’s competition called for submissions around the theme: “What Makes Me… Me.” Kids worked in their medium of choice, delivering uniquely personal and one-of-a-kind submissions.

Of 100,000 participants coming from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and Washington D.C., five national finalists were chosen to spend the day at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California for the award ceremony. At 10 am PST, this year’s national winner Akilah Johnson from Washington, D.C. saw her artwork go live on Google’s U.S. homepage for millions to see.

Thank you to all the finalists for sharing your creativity with us. And a hearty congratulations to our national winner, Akilah Johnson.

Source

In 2015, we asked kids everywhere to doodle about "What makes me…me."
Congratulations to the National Winner, Akilah Johnson.

[Ifreann]

This wasn't technically Google.

Source

Now in its 8th year, the Doodle 4 Google Competition challenges young artists to create their own Doodle. This year’s competition called for submissions around the theme: “What Makes Me… Me.” Kids worked in their medium of choice, delivering uniquely personal and one-of-a-kind submissions.

Of 100,000 participants coming from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and Washington D.C., five national finalists were chosen to spend the day at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California for the award ceremony. At 10 am PST, this year’s national winner Akilah Johnson from Washington, D.C. saw her artwork go live on Google’s U.S. homepage for millions to see.

Thank you to all the finalists for sharing your creativity with us. And a hearty congratulations to our national winner, Akilah Johnson.

Source

In 2015, we asked kids everywhere to doodle about "What makes me…me."
Congratulations to the National Winner, Akilah Johnson.

You mean the OP told lies to try to provoke anger? Well I find that most shocking.

[Khadgar]

This wasn't technically Google.

Source


Source

You mean the OP told lies to try to provoke anger? Well I find that most shocking.

Even his source link didn't back up his assertions. I'm sure no one is surprised.

[Alvecia]

This wasn't technically Google.

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Source

You mean the OP told lies to try to provoke anger? Well I find that most shocking.

Almost as shocking as saying that this Doodle has no white people in it.
I remember the thread well.

[Terrallamus]

is this flamebait, 'cause it feels like flamebait.

[Wallenburg]

It sure does. We are all part of the human race.
#umactually

EDIT: Except for Monitor, but we love her all the same.

Humanity is actually a subspecies, not a race.

Yeah, Monitor is an honourary human.

1.4 Biology A population within a species that is distinct in some way, especially a subspecies:

A taxonomic category that ranks below species, usually a fairly permanent geographically isolated race. Subspecies are designated by a Latin trinomial, e.g., (in zoology) Ursus arctos horribilis or (in botany) Beta vulgaris subsp. crassa.

[Anarchist Heathenry]

My question is will google realize that fair is fair and start using doodles that honor the white people in this country...perhaps have a doodle honoring david duke's birthday?

You're either baiting or a white supremacist. Pick one.

[Alvecia]

My question is will google realize that fair is fair and start using doodles that honor the white people in this country...perhaps have a doodle honoring david duke's birthday?

You're either baiting or a white supremacist. Pick one.

whynotboth.jpg

[Hormuzia]

We wuz kangz

[Khadgar]

We wuz kangz

I'm sure you were trying for witty.

You missed the mark by a truly breathtaking degree.

[Daffyflippingduck]

edgy teenagers and well-intentioned adults strike again!

[Thiefs County]

Fuck BLM.

[Thiefs County]

We wuz kangz

n sheit

[The Qeiiam Star Cluster]

Google supports white genocide!!!!!111

[Mithridia]

The doodle represents to the artist what it is to be black in America. It has nothing to do with any kind of well anything you said.

It has something to do with afrocentrism, as he claims. If you hover over the picture it says it's Afrocentric.

Now, I wouldn't go so far as to say they are claiming they made the Piano or something drastic like that, but it's Afrocentrism nonetheless.

[Herrebrugh]

If this is the extent of SJW tyranny, I can't say I mind it.