Dear Editor,
It must be thrilling for Eric Phillips and his colleagues to discover evidence of their negroid ancestors even in Brazil.
Phillips should not be deterred by arguments about the skeletal remains of Luzia being Australoid or south-east Asian since there is archaeological evidence that his negroid ancestors left Africa some 12,000 years ago and moved to every corner of the Earth.
These groups eventually settled and evolved into the different racial types of the Caucasian and Mongoloid, and into the ethnic groups as found in the Middle East, India, and elsewhere. Because of the need to survive climatic and other environmental factors their skin lightened, their hair straightened, and their physical appearance changed from the original.
They also developed languages, religions and other social and cultural practices that have contributed to human civilisation.
The truth is that if anyone digs deep enough anywhere in the world they will discover negroid skeletal remains, these being the ancestral relics of every racial and ethnic type before their evolution into today’s homo sapiens.
Phillips and his colleagues are rightly proud that they can see themselves in the negroid skeletal remains from 12,000 years ago. They are, after all, the original humans and they remain so even today when other groups have evolved into other racial and ethnic types.
Phillips is seriously limiting himself to claiming just Guyana’s lands when he can lay rightful claim to the entire planet. He and his colleagues should start with a petition to the UN and claim China, Finland, Argentina, the North and South Poles, Jesus, Cleopatra and Santa Claus.
All the world’s achievements belong to them and as the original people of the Earth they must claim them as their natural birthright.
By basing their claim on Darwin’s theory of evolution, Phillips and his colleagues will start down the slippery slope of the argument that if negroid skeletal remains are the standard for land ownership then a case can certainly be made for going one step back on the evolutionary ladder to the ancestors of those skeletal remains, the hominids.
That slippery slope can be taken all the way down to an argument for the Earth really belonging to the primeval ooze from which life sprang. Where does it end? With the big bang or the nothingness that went before?
Undoubtedly, Phillips and his colleagues will claim the nothingness as theirs also.
Yours truly,
Shanie Jagessar
