Originally, we are all Africans

THE EDITOR: The story in Newsday June 13 on the discovery of 160,000-year-old fossils of early modern humans prompts two responses: Firstly it proves, despite the level of intelligence or lack of it daily displayed by most of us, that we are not, as suggested, descendants of those mentally limited, Neanderthals and are, in fact, supposed to be “Home Sapiens” or thinking man, (although most of us seem determined to disprove it). Secondly, it proves definitively that we are all, without exception, originally Africans! So Indians, Europeans, Chinese, Jews, Arabs, Eskimos, Polynesians etc, etc, please note our differences are only relatively recent, are mostly superficial and cosmetic and are insignificant compared to our similarities borne out now by the proof that we all originated from common, and African, antecedents. Once we get that sorted out we could then agree on a common religion and cut out all the nonsense (as for politics, that’s just a sideshow for entertainment and to pander to the participants’ vanities!)

GEOFF HUDSON
Port-of-Spain