The term human race–invented in the late 1700s–is bogus since it reflects a hierarchy of bigotry. In the meantime this Caucasian classification of humanity has become to mean superior, due to people of light complexion authoring the books. If American Africans or other cultures having a predominance of melanin in their skin had written well-circulated books, they would have been rated superior.
The Judeo-Christian Bible is the largest selling book because its rich proselytizing administrations fund their publications and give them out freely, especially in inns and hotels all over the world. Nevertheless, the "pure white" syndrome lacks credibility. I say this even though I am of Swedish, German and Scottish descent.
For example, Eskimos are superior to so called "whites"–using physical profiling that is as demeaning as the word "blacks." The Eskimo is a culture has no history of wars. But there are other cultures that also achieved this long sought goal of superiority.
Dear Ones,
This tremendous feat of peaceful societies is admirable. This is something that leading nations still have no clue as to how to attain the wishes of the common people–whose children are sacrificed in wars by those who are able to manipulate their children into being exempt from combat.
Indo-Europeans started the "caste" system in India–the word meaning "color." According to Pierre van den Berghe, auther of Race and Racism, University of Washington–
"Hinduism uses the same kind of color symbolism as the Judeo-Christian tradition, associating evil with black and good with white." Another scholar, Jamie Kellner, Chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., said, "My hope is that one day we will all come together and not see color as it relates to race and that we really would stop judging people by the color of their skin."
A decade ago when in Ghana I stood in front of the grave of W.E. B. DuBois and read in Africa the same wish, that still is a cultural lag especially in the United States.
Mame
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