SAVING CAUCASIANS FROM CAUCASIANS Boston Marathon Bombings Made Simple

Pres. Obama getting briefed on the latest in the investigation in Boston. Saturday April 20, 2013

Pres. Obama getting briefed on the latest in the investigation in Boston. Saturday April 20, 2013

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick speaks at a news conference after the capture - Friday, April 19, 2013

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick speaks at a news conference after the capture – Friday, April 19, 2013

via Slate.com

The Bombing Suspects Are Literally Caucasian

Why do we say that white people came from the area of Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan and Dagestan?

bostonBy Derek Thompson|Posted Friday, April 19, 2013, at 12:58 PM

A man identified by authorities as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, is seen in this law enforcement bulletin distributed by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center.

Photo by BRIC/Reuters

The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been identified as brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Their family apparently originated in Chechnya, in the northern part of the Caucasus Mountains. In 2008, Explainer addressed the question of why we refer to white people as Caucasian. The original story is below.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/08/do_white_people_really_come_from_the_caucasus.html

 

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