When the day comes, that black people, people of color, don't have to prepare our babies to know, not even to understand, that they will be discriminated because of the color of their skin. We will have arrived! This pitiful realization is at center stage n o w! It appears no matter the education, the presentation, the words, the actions. The racial divide card can still be played. Unless one has lived with this negativitiy it is impossible to fathom it's devastating affect.
Pay attention, the media is once again projecting the desired divide of america. Yes, we as blacks, speak of these atrocities. As we must, to strengthen our resolve that we can overcome. We are strong, forgiving people, who inspite of such insults to our existence, must believe change can come and unite all people.
Barrack is attempting to unite us with new resolves. History is his story. Don't get lost in the historical divide! Yes we can! So, shall it be!
This is something I wrote recently.
What If...
by Rachael Wheeler, Mar 15, 2008
What is going on in the world today and how we can change it.
What if this world would stop to think about the racism still going on in this world? Would they try to change things, or would they just ignore it? What if they decided to find their hearts again? What if they looked at the person standing next to them and gave them a hug? Would we be living in a better place?
There is racial pain going on this very second somewhere right now. Education is a very important thing in this situation. Finding their heart again is another. Some people say ignorance is bliss. How can that be? I do not see anything happy about such hatred. Decisions that people make have consequences. If everyone would just realize that this malicious thinking is what makes the crime and violence accelerate. Opening up you soul could do wonders for how this world could change. Let us at least understand one another and have respect.
Any opinions on this are welcome.
This is something I wrote recently.
What If...
by Rachael Wheeler, Mar 15, 2008
What is going on in the world today and how we can change it.
What if this world would stop to think about the racism still going on in this world? Would they try to change things, or would they just ignore it? What if they decided to find their hearts again? What if they looked at the person standing next to them and gave them a hug? Would we be living in a better place?
There is racial pain going on this very second somewhere right now. Education is a very important thing in this situation. Finding their heart again is another. Some people say ignorance is bliss. How can that be? I do not see anything happy about such hatred. Decisions that people make have consequences. If everyone would just realize that this malicious thinking is what makes the crime and violence accelerate. Opening up you soul could do wonders for how this world could change. Let us at least understand one another and have respect.
Any opinions on this are welcome.
Denial of racism as illusory is even more dangerous than racism, quite possibly.
I call not for a denial of racism; I call for a denial of race as important. Humanity is still locked into a tribal state of mistrust. The mindset that we can rely on those who look similar to us, because they are family, they are tribe. The idea that we need to fear those who look different and fight with them, birthed by a lack of resources. We no longer have a need for these thought patterns and it is time to evolve the human mind beyond the tribal and into the global. It is time to remove the very idea that race hs importance. It is time to relagate pigment of skin and shape of eye to nothing more than cosmetic differences of no more value than shade of hair or shape of hand. It is time for a change of focus. To look away from that which separates and to look towards that which unites.
People's intellect make them, unfortunaley, always look for a way to connect or separate from others. Race is only but one things of many: class, religion, bloodline, nationality, family name, position, wealth, or even "management" v "worker." Seems to me like people will look for anything to either bring people together or cleave them apart.
Racism is indeed very real, but the irony in my view is that race itself doesn't have any real existence. It is a case of 'Red-Team-Blue-Team-ism' where division is constructed only in the mind. I used to regard myself as a typical white middle-class 20something, until I realised it is essentially all a load of crap. These days when required to state my Race/Ethnicity on administrative forms I always make a point of drawing a line though it, or just simply writing "bollocks". I am not white, or caucasoid, or mongoloid, or anything. In truth, I have the complexion of a very milky cup of coffee speckled occasionally with bits of pink. However, even if i was white as the driven snow, it wouldn't be suffcient to classify it as a race. Visual features such as colour, nose shapes always make a big impact on the mind because vision is (arguably) the primary sense. If you consider two identical cars except for the fact that one is Green, and the other is White, the specification as a list of words on paper is practically identical: the only difference being the linguistical difference between White and Green, which itself is a tiny difference given that the two words contain the same number of vowels, and the same number of letters. Despite this 'genetic' difference, the effect that the two cars have on the retina is stunningly different. With this in mind, it is easy to see how the evolution of race as a 'folk taxonomy' has come about. Why do we not aportion races to people with different eye colours, or people with different blood types, or people who have the genetic quirk of being able to make their tongue curl into a tube. And where would the line be drawn.... Does not every being belong to their own unique race? In truth, tradtional understandings of race are just absurd. The trouble is that the concept of race as a meme, (i.e the dogma of race as a legitmate concept) is about as pandemic as it gets. Ironically, good intentioned attempts to destroy racism, only serve to further fuel the concept of race, which in turn leads to at least the potential of future racism. Only when the human mind can learn to 'see' people without the infection of the meme of race can we start to look forward to a world free of racism.
Any revolution in regard to contemplation of race (i.e where the meme of racial divide is effectively destroyed), would inevitably lead to a similar destruction of ethnic divide. There would be no such thing as Arab, nor ethnic Jew. This would effectively mean the destruction of Israel, and somehow, I don't think the powers-that-be would be in any great rush to let that happen. In fact, given that Israel plays such a crucial role in 'biblical dispensation' and is arguably the solution to a massive theological crisis, is it possible I wonder that we are being inprisoned to such dogmatic racial labelling for the purpose of not letting such theological experiments crumble to dust?
Racism is a byproduct of the meme that race has importance. By allowing oneself to be defined by race, by making race an important part of oneself, by giving race weight and value one only propagates racism. When the very idea of a person giving race any level of importance is considered something only those of mental defect would do, when racist jokes have no more sting than blond jokes, when race has lost its importance in the minds of the majority, it is then that racism will fade. It is then that humanity can move forward as human beings completely instead of a disparate set of tribes. We must learn to see race the way we see all other cosmetic differences. And it is nothing more than cosmetic difference made important via the idea that it is important. Race in a positive light, a negative light, race in a neutral light, as long as it is given a spotlight, racism wins. The end of racism can only come via the end of the importance of race.
The entire concept of race is an illusion that festers in the mind - it is the ultimate bad virus, giving a sort of quasi-authority to it's legitimacy. To end racism, it is not just a question of ending the importance of race, but by the understanding that race doesn't even exist.
Precisely! By relegating race to nothing more than colleciton of cosmetic diffrences humanity can move beyond the idea of race and then beyond racism.
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