Racism: Real or Contrived is Human State of Weakness

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.

If we "all" came from one woman, and science can prove it then it is time to stop arguing the finer points of skin color, continental origin and eye and hair color from the "mine is better than-worse than" perspective. It is time to live as if we are all here together. To all who want to continue in the ignorant charade of hate, anger, bitterness, and evil masquerading as a tangible thing called race-you shall go the way of all those who once argued that the earth was flat. I have to ask that you wake up. You won't be able to read this if you do not. You will get mad, twist, contort, and become very uncomfortable. New information is like that. It yanks us up and out from our known implant on a familiar cushion and evokes some sort of vibration that will either end in a good long thought, a nap or a stretch and a yawn or some sort of ambivalence, but make no mistake, thinking will begin to change as information is presented.

People are not different to make any one better than another. People are different to make any one more suitable for things, such as environmental, existential, conditional requirements, which will better assure continuing survival. People have adapted, evolved and grown to be survival adept. Our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual worlds have been molded by the experiences of the life we have actively engaged with throughout our time here in the groups we have been in.

The preposterous notion of Blacks being something other than Caucasians or Caucasians being something other than Asians...etc, etc, etc, is nothing but poppycock. Every reference to any such observance is an act of racism and there is but one race here. It is the human race and we are all a part of it. There is no longer room for the imprudent exercise of the stupidity and irresponsibility of any act of racism.

It shows itself in ways that exceed the boundaries of reasonable tolerance. We all hear of the Black Entertainment Network, and Ms Black America...and the list goes on. The fact is, that is racism. I have taken the words of Reverend King all the way to the deepest recesses of my quietest mind and can find no excuse that rationalizes what we accept now from racist black Americans that stands well in the light of Martin Luther King's words.

We have racism living and thriving in the everyday lives of black, white, asian, arab people and we all practice some lame sick form of denial and contrivance in order to justify that there is some legitimate use for it. There is no more use for it now than there was in the days of the ignorant rants of bigoted white people in the days that served to pull the shades back from Reverend King's eyes.

We have allowed a form of bigotry and hatred to grow and thrive that is making our society just as sick today-maybe even worse- than it was in the days before 1963. Applying the words of Dr King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" to today's conditions one can see that all we have accomplished is a racism and bigotry that is somehow accepted. It may even be the origin of what has become the "order of political correctness" which is nothing more than the stifling of thought and progress in favor of not offending someone.

Truth can be a funny thing in how it evolves, but, there are a few things sure, it will evolve, it will prevail, and those who speak it will often not be "politically correct".

We are a racist society. We are, we have been and the only thing that has evolved is racism itself. It was sick, it stayed sick and it bred sickness. When the issue of racism is eradicated-which will not happen until we become courageous enough to talk about it honestly and with real love- we will learn that the only thing that we learned from it was behavior. It is never going to serve any higher goal but a study of behavior. We will learn then that the only differences between people are behavior and that comes down to what we understand and do not understand. That comes down to teaching. That is and will be, a matter of what we are willing to teach, that which we have the courage to teach and that which we are willing to exert the courage to learn.

Racism can end, but it won't until we insist upon it. We won't do that until we begin the teaching and learning which will require a higher order of courage.

The only question is... when?