Know these three fundamental truths about “race”. Imagine if we all knew about this destructive artificial social construct and how it can to be. We must know our nation’s history. ALL of it. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦
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I am deeply moved by your kindness Sue and it brings comfort to know you appreciate and are learning from them. I will do my best to continue. Have a beautiful Thanksgiving.
You're right and people in West Africa don't have racism but tribal bigotry.
I must say this racism/tribal bigotry are created by human being and not a biologically motivated and the question is , what's the motive behind this?
Simple politically motivated just to acquire power
Love this input from you. I think it is constructive in linking white racism as opposed to not being white. Europeans tried to prove race genetically. Fortunately genetics has been totally debunked. Unfortunately the belief in white superiority still remains.
One way to stand up to self-avowed “white nationalists” is to simply ask them to define who is “white”. Ask which skin tones count as “white”. Then ask whether they think there is such a thing as “white culture”.
"If you aren't this color then you aren't part of us" and "if you don't believe this then you aren't part of us" stems from the same motivation to construct such exclusive social arrangements.. although I can see that the latter might have been meant to unite but just did't turn out that way.
The concept of race was created to justify the enslavement of human beings. Period. I wish we all knew that, especially because of all that came after.
The term race refers to someone different to a given set of a human population in many ways. It is that a set of people have taken slaves from within their own group. The Jews had a ruling that a Jewish slave be set free after a given period by the Jewish owner. Just an e.g. off the top of my head
Race itself is a man made social construct. It's the assignment of meaning to physical characteristics such as skin color.. and that meaning usually comes with some kind of assumption or assertion of inferior quality. That's done purely for the purpose of subjugation.
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I must say this racism/tribal bigotry are created by human being and not a biologically motivated and the question is , what's the motive behind this?
Simple politically motivated just to acquire power