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THIS JUST IN...
Recently, in the midst of all the chaos that is Earthly...
With all the rhetoric surrounding racism, lately...
One fact has been ignored by most and it is presented with unequivocal evidence...
There is only one race on this planet we have to answer to...
It is not the White race...
It is not the Black race ...
It is not the Yellow race ...
It is not the Red race ...
It is not the Purple race ...
The Green race or even the Blue race ...
The only race is the HUMAN RACE and the finish line is in site...
As long as we insist on being separate races with separate colors the only way this ends is a messy, disastrous accumulation of blood and guts...
Is that the race you want to run?
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Humans are a species not a race.
That's a misnomer.
A prolifically persistent and popular one.
But a misnomer.
We don't say the "whale race" or the "lion race" or the "fish race" or the "cat race".
We do say "alien race"... But that would be a species as well.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: seeker1963
Race is only as divisive as the person discussing it.
Just like hair colour, eye colour, think Adolf.
How many others have tried the hair and eye colour to divide.
It's just a case that more people want to divide us by colour for the wrong reasons.
In the right hands, it's not divisive, it can be used to unite.
But yes we are one and bleed as one.
I'm reminded of an anecdote my friend told me...
A little Chinese/African/Native American boy could be the blood donor to a little white girl...
But that little white girls own family might not be able to....
From that hypothetical, it's easy to realise we are more dependent on each other as a species than we are as a race.
A little Chinese/African/Native American boy could be the blood donor to a little white girl...
But that little white girls own family might not be able to....
From that hypothetical, it's easy to realize we are more dependent on each other as a species than we are as a race.
They play together because they are children and some children will avoid others. A fox cub and a hound pup will play together. The word play is key. Play to prepare for adulthood.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: seeker1963
Race is only as divisive as the person discussing it.
Just like hair colour, eye colour, think Adolf.
How many others have tried the hair and eye colour to divide.
It's just a case that more people want to divide us by colour for the wrong reasons.
In the right hands, it's not divisive, it can be used to unite.
But yes we are one and bleed as one.
I'm reminded of an anecdote my friend told me...
A little Chinese/African/Native American boy could be the blood donor to a little white girl...
But that little white girls own family might not be able to....
From that hypothetical, it's easy to realise we are more dependent on each other as a species than we are as a race.
It's nothing more than a category Charlie.
If I am brown and you are purple but yet biologically if the only difference between us is the genes that make our skin colors different, how does it make us different other than a color? We are talking Crayons here my friend.
I have said it before and let me repeat it.
Ever see children of different races put in a room and told to play and have fun? What do they do? HAVE FUN! They don't see race but they see other children just like them!
It isn't until children get programmed to see a difference that the color of ones skin is a HUGE issue!
Why is that?
originally posted by: intrptr
We should drop the race suffix to human as well. I'm not running a race against my fellow humans, I'm just trying to be human.