[Rodney King]

Most of the Khoi populations no longer exist; European colonists shot, displaced, or infected many of them, and the survivors interbred with Europeans.

Today there are just 200,000 Pygmies scattered amid 120 million blacks. This fragmentation suggests that Pygmy hunters lived throughout the equatorial forests until they were displaced and isolated into small groups by the arrival of black farmers.

Of course, when white displace a population, we shot, infected, etc. For some reason there is no mention of how the blacks displaced the Pygmies. Perhaps they had a great big Kwanzaa feast, sung songs, and then the Pygmies eagerly volunteered to move off into the forests.

[Restorer]

You hit the nail on the head. Jared makes a lot of sense about many things, but his verbs when describing the movements of white peoples are derogatory, whereas when describing the movements of non-white peoples they are objective.

I doubt hunter-gatherers "displaced" by blacks or Malays enjoyed the experience much more than those who were displaced by whites.

[litehaus]

"To this day nearly 30 percent of the world's languages are spoken only in Africa. No other continent even--- approaches this ---human diversity,--and no other continent can rival Africa in the ---complexity of its human past."

Diversity? TRANSLATION= conflict,genocide,INhumanity to the 'other.'

Complexity? TRANSLATION= conflict,genocide,INhumanity to the 'other.'

[RegulatorCountry]

The author's statement that "European colonists shot, displaced, or infected many of them, and the survivors interbred with Europeans" is a bit dissonant. And, the complete absence of Islamic, Arab slave traders is suspect as well. I suppose he's lumped them under "white" to avoid muddying his false dichotomy.

[jec41]

Of course, when white displace a population, we shot, infected, etc. For some reason there is no mention of how the blacks displaced the Pygmies. Perhaps they had a great big Kwanzaa feast, sung songs, and then the Pygmies eagerly volunteered to move off into the forests.

Maybe they got ate.