[TexasFreeper2009]

Where are the race pimps claiming these results are racist?

I don't get it... my whole life I have had to endure the race pimps telling me that the only difference between whites and blacks is the amount of melanin in our skins, and that other than that we are identical...

But now scientists are saying every race BUT blacks has up to 4% of Neanderthal DNA... um... if I have 4% neanderthal DNA and blacks don't... doesn't that mean blacks are only 96% similar to everyone else?

[allmendream]

Neanderthal genetic DNA is itself over 99% the same as human DNA. Non-genetic DNA is only a few % different.

Sort of like how some coyote populations are around 4% of wolf ancestry. That doesn't mean that they are only 96% similar to “pure” coyotes - because coyotes and wolves are themselves over 90% similar in genetic DNA.

[neverdem]

I don't get it... my whole life I have had to endure the race pimps telling me that the only difference between whites and blacks is the amount of melanin in our skins, and that other than that we are identical...

They were saying many things with full knowledge of the prevalence of who gets sickle cell disease and trait, hemochromatosis, etc.

[matthew fuller]

"But now scientists are saying every race BUT blacks has up to 4% of Neanderthal DNA... um... if I have 4% neanderthal DNA and blacks don't... doesn't that mean blacks are only 96% similar to everyone else?"

I've heard more than once, that people and chimps share 98% DNA. Only 2% is different.