One, there is no scientific basis for race.
(I’ll respect your opinions and thoughts more if you go through the Book Talk. It’s okay to get new contradictory ideas—-no, really, it’s how those of us who manage, rule, and control do it. It seems contradictory to that idea but that’s how power operates.)
(Listen to the scientists, email and argue with them.
And consider this—-
- did you lose a finger if they’re right about race just being a construct?
- A breast?
- A testicle?
- Did one of your children die?
- Did you lose your home, your job?
- Is race so important to you, so central to your worldview that you can’t handle it not being true, your imbued thoughts?
- What are you without race? Are you still smart?
- Are you still tall and powerful?
- Are you worthy?
- What does taking away the false science around race negate for you, about you, about what you think of yourself?
I encourage people who comment and the people who see their comments to tell them in their pages/comments—-We see how scared you are, How mad you are, How small you are when race isn’t real. We see you.
Just write: We See You.
It will drive them race bonkers. But don’t worry, they’ll be gone by 2075, some even earlier. It’s a waiting game, a post-modern waiting game.)
The only differences between humans are Blood Type and ear wax type. Our skin color is due to environment, not biological. But classical racists try to assert so because Science is God, until it’s not. See if Science is “right” then there’s no differences other than the social construct.
Now dealing with the social construct has shifted considerably, and yes, it is becoming a post-modern “thing” to eschew race.
Mostly because when investigated or attempted to be explained, it’s evident of a White anxiety/neurosis. But what we can also see is that this social construct—-enforced at the tip of guns and pens to laws and economic factors——was programmed into everyone, everywhere where there was ability/capability to influence a society. A lot of this started because there were so many uneducated Whites—-so the pabulum of both the Bibble and social constructs—like royalty, race, virginity, etc. were fed to them, to placate and control.
Imagine a mass of uneducated people—-you have to confer some level of superiority upon them in the 1500s-early 1600s, especially here in America because this was already a hybrid/revolting colony.
(Hmmm. Placate? Control?)
Essentially what happened was that the land ownings gentry saw that the indentured servants they’d brought over—-from everywhere, were mixing by molding into a large numbered underclass.
How to placate (regulation for land owning gentry and the egos of the White serfs/poor) AND control them?
(The “them” being not just non-Whites but ALSO Whites. Racism controls and placates White people—-which is why it has survived and prospered for so long—-it controls them, placates them about the control systems and then the control systems controls them and placates them. One word summation: Hegemony.))
Give differing rights to people based on skin color. So the Whites were given the rights to bear arms and kill the Blacks and the Blacks could not bear arms nor harm a White person. Just those passed laws and then economic privileges to White's, shifted the gentry having to worry about the mixing and underclass revolt. But what this also did was it created, which is the intent of race, hierarchy, superiority to Whites (Europeans) who were perhaps one step away from the gallows and imprison in Europe. They, whatever they were, high or low, based upon pigment were superior to an Other, to a Them here in America (and elsewhere in the world.) You could be something, even if you were nothing. Race gives White people (superiority) identity to someone, somewhere, all the time. It is a form of validation without effort, it suggests that they are good, better, more than, simply from being born.
500 years later, race is not the same thing as it was because there are objective measurement systems for all people. There are multiple classes, of all stripes—-not wholly equal, everywhere, yet, but there is “free” representation.
The Wars Are Ending Race
What has happened is the axiology, ontology, epistemology and imbued hegemony has shifted in the past 200 years. From the Haitian Revolution, the first and second Cuban Revolutions, the French Revolution, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Viet Nam war and the internet (sort of a cyber-war). All of those physical wars involved “others” as a point of conflict and economics. The internet, of course has opened the world up into like a giant cyber-conference room. It illuminates divisions, ignoring manmade borders, it allows them to be transcended or crossed—-post modernistic communication.
What wars have done, pointedly for Black Americans, is given us exposure to weapons and broader thoughts on freedom due to Black soldiers serving, fighting and traveling abroad. Like an infection they bring back to Black Americans new ideas of sovereignty and modern thoughts on human rights.
LGBTSGL & Trans Influence On Race
This is almost a subversive social movement to dismantle race, which has yes, more White people by population. However, there are more out Black Americans than White Americans because of the loss of social power/privilege. But coming out, changing genders and changing sexes (two different points) means that we’re surfing into a point of the 21st/22nd century where the body is becoming two things:
- Autonomous. You, even if you’re a young child have the right, and now laws to support you announcing what and how you see yourself and your body and your sexuality.
- We have the technology to alter an adults body to conform to their idea/ideal and to even block a teen from going through an unwanted sex based puberty.
This level of control of one’s body is staggeringly new in human history and more importantly the ability to change to what you want to be—-simply amazing. But also dangerous to the hegemonic idea of The Body, of the Body based upon science and religious text. Suddenly the Body is sovereign and malleable.
Even more the West, Americans, etc. have started to reach into non-European cultures for succor, meaning, relaxation, fulfillment—-so now millions no longer abide by a Western ontology of how to see one’s personal/spiritual self/God. This seems simplistic or even divergent but it leads back to race.
I’ll throw a third meat into the stew—-the dismantling of a binary gender construct of Man and Woman.
Now we have a Spectrum of this deconstruction—-at the farthest end—-actual medical/physiological build a vagina/breasts, construct a penis, we’ll call Transsexuality, that, a 10 on our scale-spectrum.
Then we have Transgender (no medical intervention) which is exploring degrees of not conforming to the society’s prescription of sex, sexuality, being asexual, or even different genders—-adopting ideas from indigenous cultures (who been telling folks for years that there is more than just male/female binary, static masculine/feminine genderfication. It’s like one of those cut out dolls that you pull apart and there’s dozens of possibilities in there. These possibilities are represented all around the world and the internet only shows more people ideas so that they can self-identify gender, sex, sexuality.
So we’ll call (all) Trans 7 to 10.
Now on our spectrum we got LGBTSGL, Pans, Omnis, Queers, Questioning, etc.—-because that includes the dynamic of sex, gender, sexuality as well—-it’s about 5–7ish.
But interestingly, if you must label strict, never had a thought or a same sex thought (impossible)—-we’ll label Hetero as 1, which leaves 2–4 for “men” and women” who label themselves as hetero BUT 1 and 2 is strict Western ontology/religion based definition and structures.
3 and 4 is where the hetero expands based upon gender norms/roles.. Women working, becoming world leaders and voting and becoming presidents and lawyers and doctors and billionaires and flying space ships. Men being stay at home dads, single parents, adopting, having fluid sexualities—-even we have to include polygamy and polyamory across this whole spectrum.
See narrow misogyny supported racism for White men and Black men because it kept roughly a quarter of their female population dependent on the whims and ideas of its other half. Not so anymore. Now Men and Women, depending on how they identify—-just as heteros are not simplistic 1s and 2s, not all heteros are narrowed by gender “norms”. Half of the oppressive population of Whites (here in America and Europe) are “up for grabs” when there’s ideas, legislation about race, ethnicity, racism, culture—-regarding women.
And women often side to women, ignoring race (which is problematic) but race dismantling useful.
Back to Race
What all of the above meshuggas does to the modern, post-modern Zeitgeist is it radically shifts a socially constructed notion of race by dismantling and dispersing the very Body Politic that race attaches to.
People who define themselves, will no longer, not under the thumb of law or gun, allow themselves, their ancestry to be so roughly subdivided (half Black, a quarter Chinese )because their identities and perception of identity are more dynamic, and perhaps even fluidic.
See, you can’t have Caitlyn Jenner running for Governor and expect Jamal to stay in a Black box for the next 125 years (kids born after 2000 have a life expectancy of 125+ years).
In the “issue” of race to the context of White men, they’re outnumbered now across the world population—-hence so much anger, backlash, trepidation, anxiety because multiple bulls' are stampeding through ideas of Identity (sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, self, spirit, soul, religion, home country, origin, language) that the old rules can’t stop.
The Internet Wars On Multiple Levels
The best, worse and still unexplored thing to come along that is accelerating humanity. The acceleration comes form the fact that whether it’s San Francisco or Ethiopia or Singapore or Poland or Serbia or Moscow or even China—-like a vast digital/cyber virus—-information—-books, real science, ideas—-is sweeping around the world.
What will probably happen in a hundred yeas when we have a couple of wars over the internets destabilization effect—-(we used to have degrees of growth for countries and people—-now everyone can see and access IBM, Amazon, Mercedes)—-every human with internet access can want and desire both things and new ideas and therefore new ways of being that may be contrary to the society that surrounds them. Pre-Internet, your identity divergence was secret or you had to flee your homeland. Now, the internet provides people infecting their homelands as it’s exposure becomes ubiquitous.
We, as a civilization will hit a wall—-the last decades of the 2000s, where we have to band together because the Cyber/Internet Cascade wars are too costly or stupid—-we will advance to the first step of being a Stage 1 Civilization in energy, solar system colonization, sustainability, education and equitability—-because we wont’ have reasons to bar others out—-we’ll literally need everybody acting in concert to survive. (Bitcoin is a fascinating social/techno infancy example of this.)
We won’t be able to delineate by something as archaic and histrionic (“Ohmigod, she’s brown—-hide the babies!”) because so many of our cyber-coworkers and business relationships and even intimate and familial relationships, will be intermingled with other ethnicities and cultures.
We will start looking at how history has transmitted mental illnesses and their inherent uselessness. By the DSM-10 probably. Because the revisions will have to include our Spectrum 1 to 10, plus other cultural and ethnic ideas/identities and economic/statehood interests.
Race will become passé.
Ethnic origin, cultural origin, speaking multiple languages (English, French, Spanish, Mandarin/Cantonese, Farsi) and most importantly having some sort of Race Training/Cultural Engagement certification.
See, in order to survive, your children and grandchildren won’t be able to carry racism to the other parties around the world. Now they might start carrying social class judgments and educational biases about raw smarts, but you can’t be talking about niggers and do business in China because that will be a step away from slant-eyes and gooks. Anti-Semitism won’t be allowed either.
Not a flattening homogeny instead of hegemony but a form of mass acceptance—-similar to the Truth and Reconciliation town halls that saved South Africa from going nuclear over apartheid—-will be a mandated curriculum. People who are trained, probably from childhood eventually NOT to ignore ethnic and culture differences but NOT to see it as race. Which means that one generation decides, the next practices, the third improves—-hence, at least 100 years.
Impossible you say—-let’s roll back the calendar to 1921 and the Transsexual Movement then. Ummm hmm now folk on the cover of Time magazine and all kinds of men are talking about being skoliosexuals. (Yup, there’s a designated word and identity for men who like …a little extra in their dates.)
I would further posit that Obama being President was the US Republics’ olive branch to the world. To the future. “See, we can be progressive. Don’t judge us all. We know the future is coming and want to be a part of it, not a racist backwater land.”
Obama was also the prep to those in America who need to see this in multiple ethnicities, cultures, languages—-Black, White, Native, Latino, Asians, Multis and Mixeds.
It’s not so much that racism or racist are changing, as much as some people are changing, thereby changing their children and those who have static ideas are race and the other static folk will be dead by 2075.
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Note: I, as a teacher, encourage debate but I think the internet teaches some, who have no understanding of the power of not debate but Tomorrow, the Future and the permanence of the internet, so all civility goes out the window. We get it, you cut off Messaging like a putz on your profile because it’s easier to be a troll. Yippee. You finally have some power in your life to disagree with your rampant, itching thoughts about race because it’s so deeply central to your identity (which already suggests how easily you’re manipulated—-that the best thing you can do is disagree.)
Show us you’re a superstar DON”T write your points in the comments—-post it like a man or woman—-wherever you are on The Spectrum as an ANSWER to the question. I delete all posts that should be Answers themselves (grow a pair) or Comments that are specious or feckless or pedantic.
Know though, before you write I am forever in amitie amoureuse with you……..
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-101196173/how-real-is-race-using-anthropology-to-make-sense https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/how-real-is-race
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