Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is very much in the news and on Internet chatter. The BLM group asserts that black people are treated differently by police than whites. I’d like to share on my blog a similar comment about BLM to what I made on the Catholic Answers Forums (CAF) website.

Some people are very unhappy with the BLM movement, equating it with bad behavior of blacks against police. Others sympathize with the blacks and believe their complaints that they are treated differently than whites by officers. Who is right? I don't believe we are getting to the bottom of racial divides.

Many people take for granted that the black race came from non-humans in Africa and then groups of individuals came North and evolved further into the white race. I have read a scientific paper from a major journal by Stergachis et al., "Exonic Transcription Factor Binding Directs Codon Choice and Affects Protein Evolution," Science 342, 6164 (Dec. 13, 2013): 1367-1372. It is a technical title, but in the description of the experiment the text explains that a group of black people are assumed to be less evolved than whites in order to determine the mode of evolution of biological molecules.

The most significant of the researchers findings may be independent of this assumption and more information about the research is given by Stephanie Seiler,  "Scientists discover double meaning in the genetic code," UW News, Dec. 12, 2013. However, it seems there is no other way to say it but that some whites believe they are more evolved than blacks, and these whites include academic research scientists. Would that not cause some very bad feelings among the blacks? Would the Black Lives Matter’s group have some reason to believe they are treated in a different manner, such as in the history of Planned Parenthood eugenics? It could be that blacks and whites both are affected in their behaviors by this common mindset, perhaps subconsciously but in some cases blatantly.

However, if a person believes in direct supernatural creation of humans by God, s/he has no question of who is most evolved: no human is significantly different from any other human.

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