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Cloning?!
| by Shimeless Godwin Mekbeb |
A FEW months ago, there was much hype around the whole issue of cloning. After a few weeks, the massa media decided to quit letting the public know what they've been doing behind closed doors. After all the controversy about cloning, I haven't heard anything on this issue lately and I feel there is a good reason for this. Uncle Scam (oops, I mean Sam) uses the mass media as a tool to covertly "flash" what's going down behind the scenes so that the public can't say that they weren't informed when some ill sh*t goesdown in the future. In other words, the public is always the last to know.
Momma didn't
raise no phool, so you can't expect to tell me that all they've been cloning is
sheeps, frogs and other basic farm animals. There's no doubt in my mind that they've been making
carbon copies of humans and now they gonna come out on TV and say, "Look,
we duplicated a sheep." Yeah right, son, people better get a clue.
Now for the million dollar question: Why should us Afrikans even care about this
"new" technological breakthrough? What are the ramifications for us? What does
some white dude in a lab splitting cellz have to do with me, you ask?
Well, lemme break this whole genetics scenario down for all those of you biology class.
The way who had their walkmans bumpin' that day in cloning works is like artificial
mitosis, meaning that cells and embryos are and over again until they have a carbon
un-naturally divided over copy of the original embryo. This somewhat mimics the process of
creating a fraternal twin but this is basically a clever way for a couple of dudes to
"play the creator," which I wouldn't recommend.
Why do I say this? Well, let's put it this way: it just don't work (smile). See, I might
be able to duplicate a horse and it might look like a horse but since its embryonic cells
were spliced before reaching maturity for that stage of development, I might end up with a
retarded horse! Even worse, I might end up with a horse that acts like a dog. There are
certain things that shouldn't be messed with, and natural creation requires much more
wisdom than these dudes in the lab will ever attain.
Some of the latest cloning conspiracy theories that have been circulating on my campus are
that Caucasians may utilize this "new" technology to create their "dream
team" Aryan super-race that Hitler prophesized about. Now, I highly doubt that it
would be possible to make (notice I said make, not create) a holistic duplication of a 7
foot tall, 200 lb mutant whiteboy. It's one thing to make a physical copy but what about
the mental? It simply can't be done.
Movies and Cartoons have always used cloning as a cheap comedy beat. I remember way back
when I was a shortee, I would rush home from school to watch the G.I. Joe cartoon on TV
every day. This one episode I distinctly remember...the bad guys went to the tombs of all
the great white dictators, including Hitler, Napolean, Caesar, Alexander the (un)Great and
many others. The bad guys intended to extract the DNA of these leaders with this funky new
device (which I'm sure they've perfected in real life by now). And then the bad guys made
a composite DNA to create their new evil supernatural leader. Now tell me: is they
flashin' or what?
Food for ya brain cellz...what if they was to clone Hitler's DNA? I wouldn't lose too much
sleep over that because although they can make a man who looks like a carbon copy of
Hitler from DNA, it is a matter of nature/nurture that makes the person. Hell, with the
right kind of upbringing, Hitler might have...
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