Racism: Real or Contrived is Human State of Weakness

By Daniel Doyle, published Mar 19, 2007
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Racism is the biggest problem our country faces. The fact that racism is not really a real thing but a contrived one has even been forgotten in the wake of the drastic turmoil of racism's devastation and chaos, murder, mayhem and hate. It is interesting to note that all the descriptions of the deeds resulting from an insistence upon racism are evils. I am challenged to come up with even one useful application of racism. I am further challenged to believe that racism is even real. It is hate masquerading under a contrived and unreasonably sought social description.

Science has shown that all people on this planet have ascended from one woman. There is irrefutable evidence of that. Go ahead, do your homework. They don't pay enough for me to do that for you and I don't think that we should tell each other how to think anyway. I think we should each of us go out and learn how to do it and continue to work, mold and shape that until we find thought that works for us. Facts are in; all humans came from one woman. Don't bother me too much with that biblical assertation though, we can all agree on the facts that we find. Eve may or may not have been her name and she may or may not have been what the bible talks about. What I believe regarding that is personal and I am going to leave it like that. Getting into that leaves far to many long distances from the truth that we should all find together.

 
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Racism: Real or Contrived is Human State of Weakness

Like the stones of the earth, the people are too.

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Takeaways
  • Science has proven we all came from a point of origin that is "one woman".
  • Racism is not just a white thing, or just a black thing, it's a human race thing.
  • The worst of it is that racism is not even real. It is more about behavior than race.
Did You Know?
Until around the 1500's the concept of "Race", as known today to delineate groups of people did not even exist. It was invented, probably by the Romans, as a mask to identify groups for simplistic senses of superiority.
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Great article!

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Posted on 01/31/2008 at 7:01:41 AM

 
fuk u bitch

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Posted on 11/26/2007 at 10:11:00 AM

 
my beliefs are my own and the discussions herein are not likely to changs my views. origins are quite honestly a thing of the past, and we as society have realized this whether we are admitting or not. this has been proven through time, such as migrations of a specific tribe, or race if you will, they realized they belonged to one another so they left where they could no longer stay. race is like that of a click, those who get along hang out and those who dont stay to there side of the fence. just now days every body wants to get along or at leaast they claim to.

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Posted on 05/18/2007 at 3:05:00 PM

 
And best of all, this one woman that we all descend from - She was black! Now whites are different from blacks though, in a sense. People migrated from Africa and their skin lightened to get more Vitamin D in Europe where there was less sun (natural selection). Same with Asians, who migrated from Africa and had the similar but partial skin lightening. Supposedly, the narrower eyes were naturally selected because of high winds in the flat Asian areas. For more on the one woman that we all descend from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

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Posted on 04/29/2007 at 12:04:00 AM

 
Competition and fear drive so much of what gets labeled racism. This is a very perceptive article. There is hope for change in the next generation with so many acknowledged mixed race marriages and children.

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Posted on 04/27/2007 at 8:04:00 AM

 
Ms James, How does the bible lay it all out? What in that is proven not true? Do you realize that the bible did not claim the earth was flat? Men are sort of dumb...much more like monkeys than we like to admit, men claimed that, ...science really does not disprove the historical accuracy of those old scriptures. Quite to the contrary, Heather, science usually falls into a kind of alignment on all of the geographical representations the bible makes as archaeologists dig things up... don't discount that so quick. The people who wrote it were there.

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 6:04:00 PM

 
Jeff, The Mexican/hispanic issue is not race. It is respect. People who want to come here and then demand of our country that they be given, given, and given some more is a little testicular and it is very hard to take. It is akin to someone throwing a tent in my backyard and then insisting I do for them...not going to happen, Jeff. In fact, I am going to be kicking some butt until the appropriate lesson is learned. But, yes the "racism" concept is a good one to dispense with. It keeps us from far more important things.

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 6:04:00 PM

 
Daniel! One we can agree on! I don't go with the biblical version, but you are right, DNA has been traced back to an "out of Africa" tribe ages ago. Racism is just idiotic, and contrary to the denials posted here, exists to a far greater degree than it should. Just look at the anti-Mexican slant of most of those crying about illegals...

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 11:04:00 AM

 
There is a pretty thick slice of philophy in there, Mr Newman. Life is a series of choices, and while we make them everyday, we must remember in each of those instances what we learned the day before as that is where we solidify what we do today. As soon as we tell the truth and live that truth we can iron out how society has glazed over it's problems with the "isms". Great thought.

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Posted on 03/25/2007 at 8:03:00 PM

 
Dan anytime you add a "ism" tag to a problem or a point of view you are just shoveling more cover over the real problems. Racism is a cover for those who wouldn't have made it anyway. Not because of the color of their skin, but because of their willingness to allow themselves to be denied. We make decisions everyday about who we are and where we want to go. If we make a wrong choice and someone else dosen't then we want to know why we were wrong and they correct. If we look beyond the decisions we made we will find a pablum answer of Race, class, or heritage. If we look beyond that answer we can usually find the real reason and remake our decision.

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Posted on 03/22/2007 at 8:03:00 PM

 
Mr Young, I don't know what to say to you. When you figure it out, let me know and I will happily get with you on your thoughts...I don't know, maybe you thought you had a really great point there...you certainly said it enough. And as for the racism being less than the times of the civil rights movement...you haven't spent much time in the company of the people in the inner city have you? They collectively hate people with white parents. Believe me, we have a problem big as if not bigger than the civil rights days... the ignorant caucasian has been replaced by an ignorance in the African of the same genre as that of the 50's caucasian. Caucasian people are seen there as a blight. I am here to tell you I don't buy into that crap.

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Posted on 03/21/2007 at 12:03:00 PM

 
Rico, You are doing the very thing. Why are the people you profile as being subject to police stupidity first classed as "blacks and hispanics" in your comment? Dude, that may well be true, but the fact is, they are not necesarily being profiled as a "color". Maybe they are doing some stuff wrong that they need to be in the company of police for. We have all known good people and bad people. The truth is, we have all known both from every particular group. I have known Arab Muslim men that were great guys. I have known black men that were great and bad, I have known a hell of a lot of white skinned people who were assholes, and a lot who were not. Fact is, if we don't all begin to talk about this honestly, we will implode. Tempers and sensitivities need to go to the wayside and the brother to brother thing has to take center stage. Its about problem resolution together, not inflating or deflating our racial self-worth.

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Posted on 03/21/2007 at 12:03:00 PM

 
Wow. I didn't even know this thing was being looked at. Sorry. I did not mean to abandon readers. I've been busy as hell. I just had a hip replaced and that's been a lot of rehab work...and pain dope...which I hate. Anyway, I still think racism is the biggest problem we face domestically. Why? Because it divides neighbors who do not have to be divided. It makes us into "classes" and is an institution based on a lie that permeates the every tissue and fabric of our society. Ok. Now, have at me!

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Posted on 03/21/2007 at 12:03:00 PM

 
The pendulumn has swung the other way now--but that's what America is all about--the people with the biggest voice. You can say whatever you want, but can you endure what the people with the biggest voice say back at you. Even then it's just their opinion. Laws are just opinions that the majority agrees to follow (even if they don't know the law--ingnorance is no substitute for guilt--especailly if you just passed into a different highway speed zone you didn't see). "Whites" freed the slaves. "Whites" helped Dr. King. Now it's a political commentary to get what they want by throwing all "whites" in the same bucket--just like any survey that says, "Americans are too fat." Well, which Americans?

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Posted on 03/21/2007 at 1:03:00 AM

 
Sorry, I accidently posted two too many times. But while I disagree with the degree of rascism in America, I applaud you for being able to see that BET and Miss Black America are also racist. It's a way of blacks segregating themselves, and a complete double standard. I also completly agree that we can't try to sweep race under the rug with political correctness. We do need open, honest communication to solve our problems.

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Posted on 03/20/2007 at 9:03:00 AM

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