[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is actually an interesting point. African-Americans were effectively "bred", just like dogs, for a couple hundreds years or so. African-Americans who were smart, rebellious, etc. were killed (before making any babies), so there was in fact a selection factor guiding their evolution, and making the whole racial group more docile to some degree.

BUT, what you have to remember is, evolution takes a long fucking time. In fact, that was the crucial bit that let Darwin discover evolution: it wasn't until he understood how old the Earth was that he realized species could change over time.

So while there's little doubt that there was a (horrifying) selective force applied to the evolution of African-Americans, in practice that force was only applied for a very short time, in the evolutionary sense.

is that why it failed to make them more docile?