Can everyone please stop the #racism and race-baiting both? Race doesn't exist! If you are concerned about race or even identify yourself as part of a race, I highly recommend this lecture.
This professor breaks it down to it's scientific and sociological roots. Race. Does. Not. Exist.
Stop calling people (even yourself) "black" and "white." She recommends the more accurate and meaningful terms "pigmented" and "depigmented," and points out that it is a complex and beautiful spectrum.
Personally, I have an even more aggressive view towards different populations. Diversity of culture and genetics is strength. The most genetically and probably culturally diverse continent on Earth is Africa. Mixing different genes creates stronger offspring according to every genetic study ever.
In that sense, Africans are a stock of amazing strength for the human race to survive future catastrophes, like plague. I don't think individuals Africans are any better or worse, but it is logical and scientific to view their diversity as a strength and treasure of humanity.
Love, and make love, to our African brothers and sisters.
And on other side, systemic racism does exist, today. It is the current race-baiting leftists screaming about race every day on TV, and passing discriminatory laws against asians and other depigmented people. That is what systemic racism looks like. Making it harder for an asian kid to get into a good school, is the very definition of systemic racism. They are embedding not only the concept of race into the law, but discrimination based on that false concept.
Related to this divisive narrative of racism is cancel culture, an attempt to eliminate diversity of thought. How intolerant and unhealthy. Diverse cultures are beautiful and illuminate us all. Islamophobia, Christianphobia, Redneckphobia, any culturephobia: all of these things are like cutting down a rainforest to plant corn.
Be happy your neighbor is different, and open to maybe learning something from that diversity. Observe them, and consider gasp appropriating any positive habits you admire from their culture, and internalizing them. You do not need permission or forgiveness. Give credit where it is due, and it will make you a better person, not worse.
In my opinion, Martin Luther King Jr. was a hall of fame leader and speaker. It might surprise some CRT (Critical Race Theory) advocates, but I was taught extensively about his life, and writings in public school in the USA. His writings have always been inspirational to me, and the fact that he wrote compassionately and rationally from jail cells and places of real persecution shows his spirit.
In his most famous speech, the I Have a Dream speech, he said:
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
If you've never watched it, here is a link.
Ask yourself if this is what you are internalizing when you think in terms of race. Would Dr. King be cheered or canceled in today's political climate? Do BLM, CRT and the 1619 project support this dream, or tear it down?
Do not embrace the race narrative. Do not identify yourself in racial terms. If, like me, you share the dream of Dr. King, you will work together with our brothers and sisters toward a day when people eradicate this divisive narrative, and try to live up to our potential as a nation, and as a single human species.
Celebrate diversity, denounce divisiveness.
