Racism is alive and well..

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athansor said:
I think that might be a good thing. It will give us a chance to truly become one people and may be the only thing that completely ends racism.
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Yes cookie cutter people and everyone the same. Makes me sick. The story of the tower of Babal happened for a reason, not kicks for God.
 
Feanor2 said:
Makes you sick? That’s pretty strong language. Hmmmm. . . .

There is no such thing as concrete natural races.

THis is a hollow human invention.
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Did you ever take antropology in school? Well I did! There are 3 basic races then each race can be sudevided in to subraces. The differences go far byond skin color. Like skeletal structure, susptability to cerain diseases, etc. This idea that we are all the same reeks of new world order overtones to me. I’ll never buy into it.
 
About 30 years ago at the Museum of Natural History in D.C. there used to be on display an extremely large number of human skulls. The info given about the skulls were that they had been unearthed in different areas of the world. The differences among the varied groups were described. The purpose was to show the differences of humans in various regions around the world. All the skulls were of humans but there were differences.
About 10 years later our family visited D.C. again but this time the display was gone–it seems it was not considered “politically correct”. Intellectually correct but not politically correct. No info had intimated that one skull was superior to another or that any skull was inferior to another–but evidently just noting the difference was deemed inappropriate. To me that was sad. I believe we should celebrate our differences and value the status of" human".
I believe forensic scientists can study skull and or bones of a person and are able to determine what we refer to as race.

Maybe it should not be called “race”, but “breed” doesn’t sound right either.
Just an analogy: Dogs share an ancestry with the wolf–but now their are many different types of dogs–the different types were bred for different purposes and supposedly that is what started the differences. And the wolf still exists. Couldn’t humans have done the same thing?
Also, in the bible, where is and who was there in the land of Nod?
And who were the “sons of gods and the sons of men” that are mentioned in the bible?
There’s one thing for certain–we did not make ourselves.

“What is man that You should be mindful of us?”
God made us all only a “little less than the angels”.
 
royal_archer said:
I heard that blondes may be extinct in a few hundred years. Obviously some genetic traits pass on more easily than others. I could see that in several hundred years or maybe a millenia, all of our unique features will begin to gray out and we will no longer enjoy the rich diversity which is great part of our species.
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But how do we celebrate that rich diversity in skin color? When Black history month rolls around, how many say “this is unfair, we don’t have White history month?” instead of celebrating? How many people look back longingly to a time before the civil rights movement when races where segregated and we didn’t even have to sit next to someone of a different skin color on the bus, in the classroom or at the lunch counter? How long has it been since it was illegal to find love with someone of a different skin color? (recent events show that we still haven’t come that far). There was a recent rash of noose hanging incidents, lots of racism during the recent election, and so on.

When we are talking just about superficial physical characteristics, we’re really not talking about the rich diversity of our species. Are all white people “cookie cutter” folks who act and think the same way? Are all Asians the same? So, if in the future all people have the same skin color, would we really lose our diversity?

What would we lose as a people if everyone had brown skin in the far future?
 
aspawloski4th said:
Did you ever take antropology in school? Well I did! There are 3 basic races then each race can be sudevided in to subraces. The differences go far byond skin color. Like skeletal structure, susptability to cerain diseases, etc. This idea that we are all the same reeks of new world order overtones to me. I’ll never buy into it.
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i think what God did in making Blacks and Whites and Orientals, etc… is beautiful…

racists are saying that God made mistakes… :mad:

racisim is for the ignorant…
 
distracted said:
i think what God did in making Blacks and Whites and Orientals, etc… is beautiful…

racists are saying that God made mistakes… :mad:

racisim is for the ignorant…
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God made us all different for a reason. it was no mistake Every race, every enicity brings something to the table. The real racists are the ones who want us all to be the same.
 
aspawloski4th said:
God made us all different for a reason. it was no mistake Every race, every enicity brings something to the table. The real racists are the ones who want us all to be the same.
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kinda unrealistic, isn’t it? to want us to all be the same?

i never could understand why both Blacks and Whites sometimes want to keep their race “pure”…

for what purpose??? to impress God??

hmmm… :confused:

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity and a chase after wind.”
 
distracted said:
kinda unrealistic, isn’t it? to want us to all be the same?

i never could understand why both Blacks and Whites sometimes want to keep their race “pure”…

for what purpose??? to impress God??

hmmm… :confused:

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity and a chase after wind.”
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I think its more on the family or clan level. It’s human nature for one to want their children and grand children to look like them, it’s only natural. Eventhough my maternal grandmother’s first husband was Irish like she was. My mother was born having blue eyes rather than the brown eyes her family was expecting. Although much is not known fabout him because grandma wouldn’t talk about him, I have good reason to suspect that he may have been chased away by the family for being the incorrect kind of Irish. Later on my grandmother really ruffled feathers in her family by marrying a Dutchman, that marriage did stick. On my dad’s side of the family my grandma got a little static for marrying a non German from some aunts and uncles( her parents were fine with it). Except for radicals like the KKK its mostly people want things to stay the same and want familiararity.
 
aspawloski4th said:
I think its more on the family or clan level. It’s human nature for one to want their children and grand children to look like them, it’s only natural. Eventhough my maternal grandmother’s first husband was Irish like she was. My mother was born having blue eyes rather than the brown eyes her family was expecting. Although much is not known fabout him because grandma wouldn’t talk about him, I have good reason to suspect that he may have been chased away by the family for being the incorrect kind of Irish. Later on my grandmother really ruffled feathers in her family by marrying a Dutchman, that marriage did stick. On my dad’s side of the family my grandma got a little static for marrying a non German from some aunts and uncles( her parents were fine with it). Except for radicals like the KKK its mostly people want things to stay the same and want familiararity.
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hmmm… you seem to have a point… and maybe that’s one reason i am not as addicted to familiarity as some… i have had so many changes in my life… got used to it… kinda my own fault too, but that’s another story…

in any case… if your ancestors were that hung up on race, they would have gone over the edge if a relative married a Black, i presume??

AS stated elsewhere… mixing the genes is a healthy thing… the more different the genes of the father from the genes of the mother, the more chances of having high IQ and other things… many Mullattos are very gifted…

although i have to say high IQ is over-rated… usually those with high IQ are really really good at some particular thing but kinda dumb in some other thing or things…

still… i would think most parents would want smart children…🤷
 
So, did God create the different races?

The creation story would indicate that we all started out looking about the same. Adam and Eve came from the same place, and probably had the same skin color, which they would have passed on to their kids.

From an evolutionary view, the first humans also came from the same place. As people moved around, they adapted to their environment and over time, differences in skin color appeared.

So, one could say that we all started out with the same skin color and features, and have now changed and diversified. Perhaps we’re starting to move back into the direction from where we came. Did God plan for all this diversification? Was it His intent that we have all these different skin colors? Did he want us to celebrate diversity or use it to divide us? Does he approve of “keeping the races pure”? If we are moving, through intermarriage, back to where we came from, is that God’s will?
 
athansor said:
to celebrate diversity or use it to divide us? Does he approve of “keeping the races pure”? If we are moving, through intermarriage, back to where we came from, is that God’s will?
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all God cares about is us getting to Heaven. He doesn’t care about race except when it divides us… and it is so stupid for it to divide us… It seems that many Blacks don’t realize how their behavior alienates Whites… Maybe they want to be alienated from us… but still… it is harmful to racial harmony to act in some of the ways they do… being clannish, only watching Black entertainers… ( i see this @ the library a lot… they get on the i-net and always watch Black entertainers only…).

i can understand this to a point but it isn’t doing much to further progress in race relations… frankly, i feel it is racist behavior…

but no one wants to call a spade a spade these days…
 
distracted said:
AS stated elsewhere… mixing the genes is a healthy thing… the more different the genes of the father from the genes of the mother, the more chances of having high IQ and other things… many Mullattos are very gifted…
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Distracted,

Are you using these types of terms on purpose? Mullatto is another derogatory term. It comes from the Latin “mule” or a mix of a horse and a donkey. Do you know these terms are offensive? It’s not cute.

To call folks “yellow” “red-neck” “chinamen” “wet-back” or “redman” is also derogatory.

When you receive a bad deal on a purchase you are not “gyped” or “jewed”.

I hope some of this is helpful.

It’s not PC- it’s sensitivity.
 
distracted said:
hmmm… you seem to have a point… and maybe that’s one reason i am not as addicted to familiarity as some… i have had so many changes in my life… got used to it… kinda my own fault too, but that’s another story…

in any case… if your ancestors were that hung up on race, they would have gone over the edge if a relative married a Black, i presume??

AS stated elsewhere… mixing the genes is a healthy thing… the more different the genes of the father from the genes of the mother, the more chances of having high IQ and other things… many Mullattos are very gifted…

although i have to say high IQ is over-rated… usually those with high IQ are really really good at some particular thing but kinda dumb in some other thing or things…

still… i would think most parents would want smart children…🤷
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Yes you are right if anyone would of married a black. I had a greatgrandfather who acted in a traveling minstrel show to pay his way through business school. Remember blacks are not usually Catholic. My family is very staunchly Catholic. Blacks even then had a culture that would not smoothly mix with my family’s culture. Just because a family is that way doesn’t mean it’s out of hatred. During the early parts of the depression the was an Ottawa Indian family that got much help from my heavily prejudiced Irish side of my family despite the fact they were not well off too. That Indian family ate much better than they otherwise would of. My family like familiarity very much, a very Germanic trait, and an Irish one too. We aren’t out for thrills or spicing things up by any stretch of the imagination. That factor plays in to we marry.
 
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