Kennedy's overtly racist language I never realized that Neanderthals were a race.
I think they're a completely separate species, so he's really a species-ist.
"I never realized that Neanderthals were a race."
Well, monkeys are not a race either; but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. . .
No one can be really sure, but I do believe that there are a large number of anthropologists that would say that neanderthals are not really a separate species from humans. They were really not so different, probably not outside the range of differences we see among humans around the world today.
Take a look at this:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/zolli/CAP/Gib2.htm Also, it is a fact that many anthropologists believe that the population in which the neanderthal genes run strongest today is- the Irish! Now that is not a slur on the Irish at all.
There was a thread on this subject here on FR not so long ago: do a search on "neanderthal" and "redhead".
I'd far rather be known as realted to the sweet girl in the reconstruction photo than to that true caveman, Ted Kennedy.
By the way, did the George H.W. Bush actually give Teddy boy hat award the Bush Foundation was planning on giving him? If not, they ought to cancel it. He is unworthy.