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01/20/2008: "Scientist mocks European-American disunity"

Later, Kevorkian turned his attention to race and said plainly; "The whites don't unite."

"The whites, especially the old ones, they have petrified brains; their brainwashing is complete," Kevorkian explained. "You've got an Irishman, a German, a Greek, a Frenchman and they don't unite... they're wimps... There's no power in the unification of the whites. Who has the power in this country? Black people."

"Blacks can unite," Kevorkian explained. "Because of their common color" and "because they know what slavery is... Had they known about the 9th Amendment, history would have been different... The power of the blacks will lead you to act on the 9th Amendment."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009748893

[ Yet there's this other gem: ]

European Americans are often treated as a homogeneous group, but in fact form a structured population due to historical immigration of diverse source populations. Discerning the ancestry of European Americans genotyped in association studies is important in order to prevent false-positive or false-negative associations due to population stratification and to identify genetic variants whose contribution to disease risk differs across European ancestries. Here, we investigate empirical patterns of population structure in European Americans, analyzing 4,198 samples from four genome-wide association studies to show that components roughly corresponding to northwest European, southeast European, and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry are the main sources of European American population structure. Building on this insight, we constructed a panel of 300 validated markers that are highly informative for distinguishing these ancestries. We demonstrate that this panel of markers can be used to correct for stratification in association studies that do not generate dense genotype data.

http://genetics.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.0030236

[ European groups are substantially distinct. ]

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on Monday, January 21st, Osama bin Laden said

Also note that among blacks, there are distinct ethnic differences, just as there are among whites. How come this doesn't prevent blacks from uniting as a single group?

on Monday, January 21st, Osama bin Laden said

Europeans don't unite not because of granular genetic differences but because lack of cultural unity. Many of the greatest examples of unity/homogeneity in Europe crossed ethnic barriers.....You can't even get very similar people, say Germans or Irish people, to unify in America beyond attending token cultural festivals (like Oktoberfest or whatever).... And finally, look at most European nations today, south of Scandinavia.. you have a wide mix of nordics, alpines, and meds in most nations. Germany, for example, is not all Nordic, despite widely held belief. This is not an issue of genetics, but of culture.